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California least terns cared for the most
Audubon Society nest site research and maintenance at Fiesta Island
The California least tern, a light-brown shorebird that nests along the state's coastline, is one of the smallest tern species in the world, growing to just nine inches in length at adulthood. It's also one ...
Hepatitis A outbreak: Month 11 looms
"A lot of people feel safer and cleaner having to crap on the street."
An outbreak of the fecal-contamination-borne liver disease hepatitis A has sickened more than 400 people in the San Diego area since November 2016, causing national media outlets to mock the "man-made disaster" that thus far ...
Man breaches San Onofre perimeter
Confesses to carrying "electronic equipment and possibly explosives"
A man driving a stolen delivery van he claimed was loaded with explosives was apprehended in a restricted area at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating station on Tuesday afternoon (September 12). According to sheriff's ...
Unobstructed ocean views from the moment you walk in
Sandy Lane, Del Mar home drops from $23 million to $20 million
“Situated in a private gated community on the sand & intimately adjacent to the Del Mar Racetrack,” listing materials promise, lies a “spectacular oceanfront estate” at 3002 Sandy Lane. The four-bedroom, five-bath home, constructed in ...
Short-term rentals thrive in East Village
Longtime businesses dying — "It's like a ghost town down there now."
Is the demand for housing suitable to fill the thousands of rental units that have sprung up in downtown's East Village since the mid-2000s, and enough to sustain even more units currently under construction or ...
Marijuana delivery providers seek council motion
"What we're arguing for is the right to exist as businesses."
Legal marijuana consumption for purely recreational purposes will debut next January, following the passage of last year's Proposition 64. But a group of established providers of medical cannabis worry that the City of San Diego ...
San Diego medical marijuana product for Mexico
Government's buy is earmarked for treatment of epileptic children
Since early 2016, the San Diego–based Medical Marijuana Inc., doing business as HempMeds Mexico, has been exporting a version of its cannabidol (CBD) oil across the border. Last week, the company announced its first major ...
Live just north of Bird Rock for special price: $14,888,000
Designed by noted local architect Claude-Anthony Marengo
“This astounding La Jolla estate exemplifies the best of modern luxury,” promise listing materials for the newly constructed blufftop home at 5910 Camino de la Costa. Located just north of Bird Rock, the luxury residence ...
24 years of martians, murder, magic, and mayhem
In the back room with the grande dame guardian of the Mysterious Galaxy
Eat. Sleep. Read. Local. For years these edicts have presented themselves in the form of a bold red-and-white poster gracing the entryway of Mysterious Galaxy, an independent bookshop specializing in science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and ...
NFL blamed for sleepy trash-truck drivers
Strong link between football watching and alcohol consumption —really?
The Chargers' extended farewell to San Diego may be complete, but a local company claims in a study released this week the NFL poses an unlikely threat to Americans everywhere in the form of sleepy ...
Miramar Air Show protesters get Japanese bump
"Our children are being dazzled with weapons and air displays."
A group of local anti-war protesters got a boost Thursday afternoon (August 17) when their freeway overpass picket in opposition to the annual Miramar Air Show received an approving visit from members of the Japanese ...
The most ocean frontage of any Coronado home
Only three owners since 1915
“Seashore,” as the waterfront Coronado estate located at 519 Ocean Boulevard is dubbed, lays claim to “the most ocean frontage of any Coronado home,” roughly 250 feet along the peninsula’s southern edge midway between Sunset ...
SDG&E shocks solar users with rate change
"On-peak" hours switch increases cost of relying on the grid
A letter sent by San Diego Gas & Electric to customers with home solar systems has left some subscribers confused and even worried about the future of their ratepayer agreements with the utility. "Basically, I ...
What it means to be wealthy
San Diegans have modest ideas
How much money does one need in order to be considered wealthy? According to a new survey from the investment advisory firm Charles Schwab, the average San Diegan's answer is about $2.7 million. That's more ...
Water quality improving across San Diego
But Coastkeeper won't send volunteers to Tijuana
For the first time in four years, water quality in the San Diego region is showing signs of improvement. Still, that may not be cause for celebration just yet, conservationists warn. While any improvement is ...
Passing out food on the Pala reservation
Squash, peaches, nectarines
It's a slow Tuesday for Michelle Silva, a recreational aide at the Pala Youth Center near the northern border of San Diego County. Most of the center's charges, which number as many as 70 during ...
Sempra seeks to block shift from gas appliances
Electric heat pump is more efficient that even a tankless gas heater
Environmental activists at the Sierra Club and elsewhere say an outdated rule from the California Public Utilities Commission is preventing consumers from accessing incentive funds to replace old gas appliances with newer, more efficient electric ...
Ocean Front Walk gets another supermodel
This one comes with “flexibility relative to maximizing utilization of the ocean frontage”
The forthcoming estate at 3701 Ocean Front Walk in north Mission Beach hasn’t even been built yet, but it’s already been adorned with a steep price tag. The residence will consist of a six-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath ...
Someone else can clean it up
General Atomics looks to offload uranium Superfund site in Colorado
After more than a decade in mothballs, a subsidiary of San Diego's General Atomics has indicated that it intends to offload the cleanup work at a uranium mine it owns in central Colorado. The Cañon ...
San Diego solar growth hits the brakes
Metering rule change and heavy rains blamed
The number of San Diegans installing solar panels has been slowing throughout the first half of 2017, according to data released this week by OhmHome, a green tech advisory firm. According to research analyst Casey ...
Chicken of the Sea change
Greenpeace satisfied with Thai Union's promises
After nearly two years spent petitioning for changes to tuna industry practices, activists at Greenpeace on Monday (July 10) announced a sweeping agreement with Thai Union, the global seafood giant that owns San Diego's Chicken ...
Seawall enhancement shot down
Grandview Beach homeowners lose permanent rights to stairs and concrete
Environmental advocates at the Surfrider Foundation's San Diego chapter are celebrating a state supreme court decision that overturned a challenge by homeowners on Leucadia's oceanfront who sought to remove restrictions on seawall construction permits they'd ...
Famous Greek speakers sell Bird Rock cliff home
Rolls-Royce convertible included
Villa de Fuego y Agua, or “the house of fire and water,” is the moniker bestowed upon a blufftop estate in southern La Jolla’s Bird Rock neighborhood. “Soaring high above the sea and sailing into ...
Another David Ross (Waterman) story
Struck out twice in San Diego
David Ross is full of stories. Gaunt yet sprightly at 82, Ross, known to his many friends on the streets of downtown San Diego as “Water Man Dave” or “Water Man,” has spent more than ...
Ramadan, no cheating
East County handyman chugs half gallon of water while it's dark
Said Hamdi works as a handyman for a local property management firm, maintaining houses and small apartment buildings across East County — Spring Valley, El Cajon, Santee, Lakeside. For the last month or so he's ...
Now the builders are mad at Encinitas
They fear the worst — total ban on new construction
After nearly 25 years of non-compliance with state law requiring municipalities to provide space to develop affordable housing, the city of Encinitas is headed back to court. According to a petition filed to San Diego ...
De Anza splits the baby — 40 acres to Campland, 38 acres to marsh restoration
Campers and conservationists walk away unhappy from Thurs. meeting
A committee formed to explore redevelopment options at De Anza Cove in the northeast corner of Mission Bay met for the sixth and final time on Thursday evening (June 29), adopting a tentative plan that ...
Rick Perry joins environmentalists on San Onofre
Energy department wants to revive stalled Nevada nuclear dump plan
Onetime presidential contender Rick Perry, who famously called for the elimination of the federal Department of Energy before being tapped to lead it, warned on Tuesday (June 20) that conditions at the shuttered San Onofre ...
Gaggenau appliances on La Jolla's Coast Walk
Former Price Club competitor keeps putting on market — with no success
Listing materials for the blufftop La Jolla estate at 1585 Coast Walk promise to deliver “without a doubt, one of the best waterfront homes in La Jolla.” Built in 1986 and designed by celebrated local ...
San Diego County's extra $1.7 billion attracts social activists, disgruntled employees
Everyone wants piece of pie
As San Diego County works its way toward adopting a budget for the next fiscal year, county supervisors are getting an earful from community activists and their own employees on where funds need to be ...
Hotel taxes for homeless, not a new convention center
A new survey suggests there's strong support among San Diegans for an as-yet hypothetical measure to address the city's homelessness issue by increasing hotel taxes. The study, conducted between May 31 and June 4 by ...
Black Mountain School discovers more about Nate Harrison
SDSU archeology project implies he was wealthier than expected
In the wake of a local middle school accidentally publishing a racial slur on the cover of its 2017 yearbook, civil rights leaders are looking to treat the mistake as a teachable moment. The yearbooks ...
On the sand in Del Mar for only $6864* (*per square foot)
"Built to withstand any type of weather."
The Del Mar beach house at 2606 Ocean Front promises “one of the most unique homes on the market” that “just finished a complete rebuild using the finest materials.” According to the listing, there are ...
Balboa Park dreaming — ah, but there's the retro-fitting
Who's fixing the Botanical Building, the 6th Ave. playground, what about statue of Balboa?
A crowd of about 100 gathered in an auditorium adjacent to the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park on Tuesday evening (May 30) to discuss the state of the park's improvements and discuss ...
Exotic woods and full slabs of onyx
Just know that the previous owner illegally imported three Romanian AK-47s
Beds: 7 Baths: 7 Current Owner: Harry Rady Asking Price: $11,800,000 The estate offered for sale at 6001 La Jolla Scenic Drive South boasts “almost two acres of lush tropical grounds and an expansive residence ...
Sempra proposes natural gas pipeline from Miramar to Rainbow
Opponents say use the Otay Mesa pipeline instead
Sempra Energy, the parent company of both San Diego Gas & Electric and SoCalGas (serving Riverside County), is in the planning stages for a massive new $600 million natural gas pipeline running roughly from Miramar ...
Sunset Cliffs passes Fiesta Island as dirtiest beach
Trash coming to coast from inland
The beaches of Sunset Cliffs have supplanted Fiesta Island in Mission Bay for the dubious distinction of San Diego's dirtiest shoreline, according to new data from San Diego Coastkeeper and the Surfrider Foundation's San Diego ...
Walmart sues Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea for price fixing
Smaller cans, secret price lists, limiting discounts
A class-action lawsuit filed by retail giant Walmart accuses canned tuna's three biggest players – including San Diego's Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea – of conspiring to fix prices on "shelf stable" seafood ...
A private Olde Del Mar location
“Expansive white water ocean views to the west, endless lagoon & mountain views to the east”
Beds: 6 Baths: 8 Current Owner: PDMI LLC (Denver-based developer) Asking Price: $22,500,000 The luxury estate situated at 2160 Balboa Avenue, on a peninsula of land between the San Dieguito River and Pacific Ocean just ...
San Diegans will squeeze food money May 8 to 12
Hunger Coalition challenges you to make it on food stamp budget, $4.18 a day
More than 100 San Diegans will spend the weekend making preparations to participate in the CalFresh Challenge an annual event that asks participants to spend a day or a week living off the average budget ...
Councilman Alvarez rides the neighborhood, promises money for bikes
From Park and G to Chicano Park to Harbor Drive
City councilmember David Alvarez met with more than 100 cycling enthusiasts assembled by the San Diego Bike Coalition on Thursday afternoon (May 4) to lead a ride through his native Barrio Logan. "When you're on ...
Incumbency will favor Summer Stephan over Adam Gordon to succeed Dumanis as D.A.
San Diego County supervisors won't limit candidates.
Pleas from various groups urging the San Diego County Board of Supervisors to take precautions when installing a temporary district attorney to replace the outgoing Bonnie Dumanis fell on deaf ears at a board meeting ...
San Diego lifeguards at OB Town Council blast fire department take-over of 911 calls
Fire Chief Fennessy sends email
There's a serious problem with the way 911 calls are routed between the city's fire department and its lifeguards. At least that's what the lifeguards are saying. "There's been a policy change that waterway 911 ...
Rose Creek won't be moved to flush Mission Bay
Edging closer to wetlands at De Anza Cove
The group tasked with reimagining wildlife habitat along the northern edge of Mission Bay unveiled a new set of proposals on Tuesday evening (April 25). The three draft alternatives include new developments and some departures ...
La Jolla office building goes condo
Permanently protected ocean view, brand new, unit 402
The “premiere [sic] limited edition penthouse” at 1020 Prospect Street in La Jolla promises buyers a “one-of-kind property” that “has been meticulously designed and curated for discerning home collectors.” The penthouse suite, or Unit 402, ...
San Diego homeless vets down, homeless in tents up
Jenni Criscenzo throws cold water on the Regional Task Force report
The number of homeless people on the streets of San Diego is on the rise, but fewer of them are finding their way into shelter beds. This, according to the latest numbers from the Regional ...
General Atomics scores another drone contract
Company to supply lithium-ion batteries for shallow water vessels
General Atomics, the La Jolla-based military contractor perhaps best known for its Predator and Reaper aerial drones, announced this week that the company has landed a contract for a new type of unmanned vehicle – ...
Greenpeace rates San Diego tuna firms
American Tuna ties for first, but not Chicken of the Sea or Bumble Bee
San Diego's tuna canning companies are both the best and the worst, according to a new report from the environmental advocates at Greenpeace. The best: Bonita-based American Tuna, which ties for first place among the ...
Gafcon's San Diego bayfront plan seems to please tuna fishermen
Plan to replace Seaport Village and Tuna Harbor would include parking garages, hotels, aquarium, daily fish market - but no pleasure craft in Tuna Harbor
After months of behind-the-scenes bickering and horse trading between San Diego's commercial fishing fleet and a developer tapped by the Port of San Diego to revamp a large portion of a large section of San ...
Toenail abductor at El Cajon Walmart
Police reviewing surveillance tape
Police in El Cajon are searching for a man with exceptionally long toenails in connection with an attempted abduction from the Walmart parking lot outside Parkway Plaza. According to a report from lieutenant Royal Bates, ...
