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SAN DIEGO – San Diego International Airport received a $16 million federal grant for noise mitigation measures. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration is awarding more than $845 million in airport infrastructure grants nationwide. "We don't want to just build our airports back to the way things were before the pandemic," U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. "We want our airports to be better than ever – accessible to all, del...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors adopted a $7.23 billion revised budget for fiscal year 2021-22 after public deliberations on Tuesday, June 29. The adopted budget responds to voices in the community and follows a Framework for the Future that will fundamentally change county operations, with significant funding to address justice system reform, racial justice, health and environmental equity, homelessness and economic opportunity. “This is a budget that meets the needs of all our residents,” County Chief Adm...
The San Diego County Office of Emergency Services is asking all County residents to fill out a survey about the Public Safety Power Shutoff program. PSPS is a prevention program sponsored by San Diego Gas and Electric to reduce the potential for utility-related wildfires. SDG&E will temporarily shut off power to customers in specific areas when wind speed, vegetative moisture, temperature and humidity create a high risk for wildfires. Stakeholder and community feedback on PSPS is critical to advancing public safety...
The San Diego County Office of Emergency Services is asking all County residents to fill out a survey about the Public Safety Power Shutoff program. PSPS is a prevention program sponsored by San Diego Gas and Electric to reduce the potential for utility-related wildfires. SDG&E will temporarily shut off power to customers in specific areas when wind speed, vegetative moisture, temperature and humidity create a high risk for wildfires. Stakeholder and community feedback on PSPS is critical to advancing public safety...
CHULA VISTA - A 12-year-old boy who suffered a fatal gunshot wound over the weekend at a South Bay condominium complex appears to have accidentally shot himself with a firearm provided by a friend, authorities said today. Patrol officers responding to a report of a shooting in the 500 block of Telegraph Canyon Road in Chula Vista shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday found the child lying near a sidewalk, mortally wounded, according to police. Paramedics took the victim to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His name has been... Full story
SAN DIEGO - In two hours of work, more than 600 volunteers with Surfrider Foundation San Diego's annual post-Fourth of July ``Morning After'' beach cleanup removed 1,457 pounds of trash from San Diego's beaches, the group said today. The majority of the trash collected consisted of single-use plastics, which otherwise could have washed into the sea ``adding to the already critical pollution problem devastating the world's oceans,'' a statement from Surfrider Foundation San Die...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County District Attorney's Office released reports today indicating that 20 local police officers will not face criminal charges related to five separate officer-involved shootings, four of which resulted in fatalities. The reports detail investigations into shootings involving San Diego, Chula Vista and California Highway Patrol officers dating back to July of 2020. Two of the cases involved suspects firing shots at officers. One involved a man pointing an airsoft pistol at officers, while... Full story
SAN DIEGO - A team of experts recommend increased effort, coordination and engagement by San Diego agencies and researchers to build climate resilience with attention to disadvantaged communities that are particularly susceptible to climate change impacts, according to a report released today. The authors, representing the American Planning Association and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, released ``Collaborative Planning for Climate Resilience,'' that analyzed the planning needed to address climate...
SAN DIEGO - San Diego International Airport received a $16 million federal grant for noise mitigation measures, it was announced today. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration is awarding more than $845 million in airport infrastructure grants nationwide. ``We don't want to just build our airports back to the way things were before the pandemic,'' said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. ``We want our airports to be better than ever --... Full story
As California’s wildfire season looms, threatening once again to break records for destruction, tens of thousands of rural homeowners risk facing the flames without enough insurance to rebuild if their homes burn. Insurers have been taking a hard look at the millions of Californians who live in areas with a very high risk of wildfires, especially in recent years when a series of costly fires incinerated thousands of rural homes. From 2015 through 2019, insurers dropped property coverage for more than 143,000 customers in 1...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vastly overstated wildfire prevention work completed by his administration, according to a Capital Public Radio investigation released June 23. State fire officials have treated less than 18 of the 140 square miles (50 of the 365 square kilometers) that the Democratic governor has touted, the radio station reported. The land is part of 35 priority projects Newsom designated in 2019 on the heels of the deadliest wildfire season in state...
SAN FRANCISCO – Monday, June 28, California added five more states, including Florida, to the list of places where state-funded travel is banned because they are working to prevent transgender women and girls from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity. “A number of years back, my office is adding five new states to California's state funded travel restriction list, bringing the total very sadly, actually, this is the large number of to 17. So we're adding five new states today. The states are...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A grand jury indictment was unsealed today charging 60 alleged members of a San Diego-based methamphetamine distribution network with ties to the Sinaloa cartel with federal drug trafficking, money laundering and firearms offenses. Prosecutors say the defendants were part of a ring that smuggled thousands of pounds of meth from the cartel across the border, then distributed the drug ``to dozens of sub-distributors'' in San Diego County, across the United Stat...
A trio of San Diego County beaches landed on an environmental group's annual honor roll listing of beaches with perfect year-round water-quality grades, but two others were ranked as among the most-polluted in the state thanks to Tijuana River sewage flow, according to a report released today. A total of 35 California beaches earned spots on the Heal the Bay's Honor Roll, down from 42 last year. Orange County led the way with 10 entries on the list. San Diego County beaches...
SAN MARCOS - The remains of two people were found after a fire that fully engulfed a home and several trailers early today at an equestrian center in an unincorporated area of San Marcos, authorities said. The fire was reported at about 1:37 a.m. Saturday at San Marcos Equestrian, 2635 North Twin Oaks Valley Road, according to San Diego County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Greg Hampton. When deputies from the San Marcos station and firefighters responded to the area, they saw a home and several trailers fully engulfed in flames,... Full story
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - A high-pressure system will bring scorching temperatures and elevated fire danger to Riverside County into next week, forecasters said. The National Weather Service said temperatures will be 10 to 15 degrees above normal in portions of the inland valleys and deserts in Riverside County on Sunday and Monday. A heat advisory will be in effect from 10 a.m. Sunday to 9 p.m. Monday for inland valleys, including the cities of Riverside, Moreno Valley and Corona. Me... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A period of cooing that made for a fairly temperate start to summer in the San Diego area this week will give way over the next several days to intensifying heat, meteorologists reported today. A low-pressure trough along the California coast will slowly weaken as a large ridge of high pressure builds over the Pacific Northwest during the weekend, bringing local temperatures 5 to 10 degrees above normal to Southern California, according to the National... Full story
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Water Authority said today it has adopted a $1.7 billion budget for the next two fiscal years and will keep its spending steady compared with the current budget. What the agency calls the ``all-in'' water rate -- which is what it charges customers like the city of San Diego -- will rise by 3.6% for treated water and 3.3% for untreated water in the calendar year 2022. The water authority said the increases reflect several factors, including rate hikes by the Metropolitan Water District of South...
SAN DIEGO - San Diego County's environmental health department closed the San Diego Tijuana Slough shoreline in southern San Diego County today, cautioning people against coming into contact with the ocean water. The Tijuana River enters San Diego County from Mexico and flows through the southernmost part of the county before it empties into the Pacific Ocean. Sewage-contaminated runoff that enters the river in Mexico may be moving north along the San Diego County shoreline, according to a statement Thursday from the San... Full story
SAN DIEGO - Authorities today released the name of a 68-year-old Los Angeles-area man who died last weekend during an outing with a volunteer group counting bighorn sheep amid scorching heat in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. A hiker found Donald White of Culver City in medical distress in the area of Borrego Palm Canyon Trail shortly after noon Saturday and made a 911 call to report the emergency, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office. Paramedics arrived to find White unconscious and unresponsive....
BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — California’s weather began cooling Monday after a lengthy heat wave but firefighters still faced the difficult task of trying to contain a large forest fire in rugged coastal mountains south of Big Sur. The Willow Fire covered 3.7 square miles (9.6 square kilometers) of Los Padres National Forest as of late Sunday night, the U.S. Forest Service said. More than 450 firefighters were on the lines, aided by planes and helicopters. The fire broke out Thursday evening in the Ventana Wilderness and bur...
Fully vaccinated people will be able to ditch face masks in most workplace situations under relaxed COVID-19 rules approved June 17 by a state regulatory panel and immediately put into effect through an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom. The workplace rules approved by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board mostly align with regulations that took effect this week for the general public. They allow vaccinated workers to shed face masks in most settings except those required by state regulations – such as on p...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Gov. Gavin Newsom says California will pay off all the past-due rent that accumulated in the nation's most populated state because of the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, a promise to make landlords whole while giving renters a clean slate. Left unsettled is whether California will continue to ban evictions for unpaid rent beyond June 30, a pandemic-related order that was meant to be temporary but is proving difficult to undo. Federal e...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – As we enter our summer fire season, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection are reminding the public, it is against the law to fly a drone near or over a wildfire. Firefighting aircraft could be grounded, disrupting critical fire operations. Time is of the essence. If you fly, we can't Flying a drone over or near a wildfire is dangerous and can cost lives. During a wildfire, crews rely heavily on helicopters, planes and other large aircraft t...
SAN DIEGO – The top law enforcement leaders in San Diego County are sounding the alarm about an increase in overdose deaths related to fentanyl, especially among younger people. The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, Sheriff’s Department and Police Chiefs’ and Sheriffs Association are pushing out the warning on social media in an effort to educate youth and parents that if the pill you’re taking didn’t come from a pharmacy, it could kill you. In 2019, there were 151 fentanyl-related overdose deaths in San Diego C...
