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San Diego County residents report mysterious orange light in the sky
SAN DIEGO — People across San Diego County are reporting an unidentified bright orange light shooting across the sky Thursday night. Some residents believe it's an asteroid or shooting star — but some guess it's space debris or a satellite burning up on reentry from a SpaceX launch.
March 31, 1985: The Day That Tore San Diego Apart
In 1917, the seventy thousand residents of San Diego had a decision to make: “Smokestacks versus Geraniums.” Few cities have the chance to define their future, but the candidates in the 1917 election for mayor made the two possibilities clear. Gilded Age bankertype Louis J. Wilde—for whom no industrial project was too big to finance—marketed himself as “The Smokestack Candidate,” promising good jobs and good wages through the development of the city’s deepwater harbor into a center for shipping and manufacturing. Department store owner “Geranium George” Marston—champion of Balboa Park and organizer of the wildly successful 1915 Panama-California Exposition—saw the city’s welcoming climate and natural beauty as its greatest assets, promising a prosperous future in real estate and tourism through beautification and carefully managed growth.
State land became a refuge for unhoused San Diegans amid camping ban. Not anymore
A 35-year-old San Diegan has been living with her boyfriend in a tent for “a long time,” she said, moving to different areas of downtown whenever police come by to enforce the city’s camping ban. About a week ago, the couple perched themselves on top of an...
Massive Wildfire in Northern California Forces Thousands to Evacuate
A rapidly expanding wildfire, named the Park Fire, has consumed over 45,000 acres in Northern California, prompting widespread evacuations. The blaze, which ignited near Chico on Wednesday afternoon, escalated from 6,400 acres on Wednesday night to 45,550 acres by Thursday morning. Firefighters are prioritizing evacuations and structure defense, using bulldozers...
Chicano-Con returns to San Diego
SAN DIEGO — Border X Brewing is right along Logan Avenue in San Diego, a short walk south of the convention center hosting Comic-Con. It's a local business with food and drinks but once a year it turns into a world of comics for just a few days. “We’re...
Two carriers conducting 'swap' operation in San Diego
The aircraft carriers USS George Washington and USS Ronald Reagan are in San Diego for the next couple weeks for what the Navy's calling a "hull swap." The Reagan's been based in Yokosuka, Japan since 2015. The Washington spent the last six years conducting mid-life refueling and maintenance in Virginia.
Here's your chance to tell the city what your trash collection needs are
SAN DIEGO — San Diego residents will be asked to weigh in on their trash collection and recycling needs through a series of community forums in all nine City Council districts, as the city is working Friday to determine how much it will charge in fees for waste services at single-family homes.
Prop 32 asks California voters to raise statewide minimum wage to $18
Renato Palisoc has worked at the Hilton Bayfront in San Diego for 16 years. He said wages have gone up incrementally during that time, but the cost of living in California has increased exponentially. California's current $16 minimum wage is more than twice the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25....
San Diego to open new $98M juvenile hall with rehabilitation-focused approach
SAN DIEGO — A years-long effort to replace the former Juvenile Hall facilities in San Diego County has reached its final milestone, as the new Youth Transition Campus in Kearny Mesa prepares to open next week to house and rehabilitate juvenile offenders in a new way. Although the new...
All evacuation warnings lifted in Grove Fire, evacuation orders remain in some areas
All evacuation warnings have been lifted for the fire that has burned hundreds of acres east of Palomar Mountain while evacuation orders remain in place for some areas, authorities said.
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