Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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STORY UPDATE: Facebook announced Friday, June 4, that despite their former decision, President Trump's account will remain suspended for two years through Jan. 7, 2023. Facebook plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on its site, according to several news reports. The company's rationale for that policy held that the speech of political leaders is inherently newsworthy and in the public... Full story
A crash between a semi-truck and motorcycle was reported at 3:44 pm according to the CHP call center. The rider was transported to the hospital but was observed being able to walk. No other information is available at this time. Traffic has been snarled all afternoon in that area as a result of an RV fire and vegetation fire.... Full story
This is a developing story According to NCFPD PIO John Choi, the Rainbow fire that spread from an RV that caught fire has been stopped at 1/2 acre. There are no evacuation orders at this time. Traffic is snarled, but moving. SB I15 lanes are still closed as of 3:41 pm. Agencies involved are North County Fire Protection District, CalFire, Vista Fire Dept, Pala Fire Dept, Oceanside fire department. Fires, collisions, I-15 SB closed at Mission I-15 SB is closed from a vegetation... Full story
UPDATE - FALLBROOK – On Jan. 4, at approximately 4:14 a.m., a two-car collision occurred on I-15 southbound, south of Mission Road. A 28-year-old male from Cardiff was driving a 2014 Audi. A 46-year-old male from Chula Vista was driving a 2013 Toyota. For reasons that are still under investigation, the driver of the Audi was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes and collided head-on with the Toyota. As a result of the head-on collision, the Toyota became fully e... Full story
The smoke in the air over Fallbrook and Bonsall is from two fires, according to NCFPD PIO John Choi. One is a 1/4 acre fire which has been stopped in the 2500 block of Wilt. There is still a vehicle le on fire however as of 12:20 pm. The other source of smoke is coming from controlled burns on Camp Pendleton.... Full story
FALLBROOK – North County Fire is on scene of a large vehicle fire in the area of the 2500 block of Wilt Road in Fallbrook. The fire has spread to the vegetation. Everyone is asked to avoid this area. Forward rate of spread has been stopped as of 12:30 p.m. Friday. There is also a Smoke Advisory as Camp Pendleton is conducting a controlled burn on their base. Smoke may be visible, but there is no fire threat to our district, according to North County Fire.... Full story
BONSALL- At 11:05 a.m. on June 4, a traffic collision occurred on South Mission Road near Daniel's Market. A white Honda Civic and a white Cadillac SUV collided. There has been one possible injury reported. The cause is under investigation.... Full story
PALA MESA - A 46-year-old man was behind bars today after leading authorities on a nearly two-hour pursuit from San Bernardino County to Interstate 15 in northern San Diego County, where he refused to exit his car for over three more hours, authorities said. The incident began about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, when San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a person in a vehicle possibly doing drugs outside a home in Barstow, California Highway Patrol Officer... Full story
LOS ANGELES - The state of California has agreed not to impose greater coronavirus restrictions on church gatherings than it does on retail establishments in a pair of settlements that provide more than $2 million in fees to lawyers who challenged the rules as a violation of religious freedom. A deal approved Tuesday by a federal judge comes after lawyers for a San Diego-area Pentecostal church took their challenge against the state to the U.S. Supreme Court three times and...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Conflicted California workplace regulators approved controversial rules that allow workers to go maskless only if every employee in a room is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. But the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board made clear Thursday night that the regulations are only a stopgap while they consider further easing pandemic rules in coming weeks or months. The board initially voted 4-to-3 to reject any changes to curr...
Firefighters are working to extinguish a brush fire that started from a vehicle fire and spread to surrounding vegetation in the 1900 block of Via Ladera Drive in Rainbow, just south of the San Diego-Riverside county line, according to a tweet by North County Fire. There are no reports of structural damage or injuries from the brusher which charred roughly a quarter of an acre in medium-heavy fuels with a slow rate of spread before it was stopped. Multiple explosions were...
For San Diego Sockers General Manager Sean Bowers, who lives in Murrieta, the Sockers' new arena in Oceanside which is expected to open in 2023 will be a closer trip than the team's current Pechanga Arena venue in San Diego. For Sockers Chief Marketing Officer Craig Elsten, who lives in La Mesa, Oceanside will be a longer trip than San Diego's Point Loma area. Elsten as well as Bowers spoke only positively about the new venue which will be called CaliFino Arena in the absence...
Fallbrook High School's girls basketball team won the 2020-21 Valley League championship. The Warriors posted a 10-0 record in Valley League play. Fallbrook's regular season overall record was 19-7. The May 29 CIF playoff selection and seeding meeting gave Fallbrook the top seed in the Division III playoffs, which provided the Warriors with a first-round bye and a June 5 home game against the winner of the game between Castle Park and Santana. A Warriors win June 5 will give...
For the first time in school history, Bonsall High School's basketball team is a league champion. The Legionnaires concluded Sierra League and regular-season play May 24 with a 61-54 home win over Bayfront Charter. The result gave Bonsall a final league record of 8-0 and a regular-season overall record of 15-5. "The boys were determined," said Bonsall coach Chuck Colletti. Prior to the showdown against Bayfront Charter, the Legionnaires had games May 20 at home against Coastal Academy and May 21 at High Tech High North County...
The Valley League tennis tournament took place May 17-20 at San Pasqual High School and ended with Fallbrook players winning the championship in two divisions and 13 Warriors qualifying for the CIF tournament. Fallbrook junior Alexa Guadarrama won the girls singles championship while junior Daniel Winton and sophomore Joseph Tygert were the boys doubles champions. Each league is allowed to send five players or doubles teams in each event to the CIF tournament; all semifinalists qualified for the CIF tournament, and a...
Fallbrook batter Jace Cervantes takes a swing at a pitch during the varsity baseball game against the Escondido Cougars, May 26....
Fallbrook High School's boys volleyball team ended its season in the play-in round of the CIF Division II playoffs. The May 24 loss at Valhalla gave Fallbrook a final season record of 6-15 including a 2-6 mark in Valley League play. "I've got to be happy," said Fallbrook coach Chip Patterson. "This year's team was nine boys," Patterson said. "Six of them never really played volleyball." Fallbrook did not have a junior varsity team this year. The roster consisted of two seniors, five sophomores, and two freshmen. "For them to...
The lawsuit, dated Thursday, May 27, and filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, alleges that Lightfoot's denial violates the DCNF and Catenacci's First Amendment rights and Catenacci's right to equal protection under the 14th Amendment. "It's absurd that an elected official believes she can discriminate on the basis of race," DCNF Editor-in-Chief Ethan Barton said. "Mayor Lightfoot's decision is clearly blocking...
Numerous media outlets have published stories within the last week confirming the legitimacy of the COVID-19 lab leak theory after denigrating the hypothesis as a baseless conspiracy for the first year of the pandemic. The theory that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has steadily gained momentum in the media and the scientific community since early January when New York magazine published a lengthy expose detailing the legitimacy of the theory. The straw that broke the camel’s back came Sunday a...
For Californians who are insufficiently compelled by civic duty and self-preservation to get vaccinated, Gov. Gavin Newsom is offering another reason to get the jab: cold, hard cash. Newsom announced a $116.5 million "Vax for the Win" program, the largest inoculation lottery program in the country, Thursday, May 27. The money will be split among dozens of lucky Californians: $1.5 million to each of 10 "grand cash prize" winners who will be picked by random draw on June 15,...
John Magee's general store on the Southern Emigrant Trail, also known as the Butterfield Trail, was the location of our first Temecula Post Office in 1859. It was south of the Temecula Creek and a little east of today's Vail Headquarters in a place no longer visible in a housing tract. Temecula's most famous artist, Ralph Love, sketched what was believed to be the Magee Store post office, but his drawing in fact shows John Magee's second store which was located farther along...
SAN DIEGO – The Port of San Diego has announced that the “Big Bay Boom,” San Diego’s longtime Fourth of July tradition, will return as a live event this year. The event was canceled in 2020 because of coronavirus concerns. The fireworks are scheduled to begin at 9 p.m July 4, according to the Port of San Diego. The roughly 20-minute pyrotechnic display can be viewed from Shelter Island, Harbor Island, North Embarcadero, South Embarcadero, Cesar E. Chavez Park and Coronado Ferry Landing. Residents wishing to watch the event fr...
SAN DIEGO – The San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister began sending 42,037 reminder notices May 27 to property owners who did not pay all their 2020-2021 property taxes. “On July 1, any unpaid bill will go into default, incurring another 1.5% penalty each month,” said McAllister. “That penalty amounts to 18% per year. I want to save people this hefty fine and encourage them to pay their bills as soon as possible.” Property owners can pay their bills immediately online at sdttc.com, where free e-check i...
