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Meet American Indian Heritage Month Local Hero Joely Proudfit
Joely Proudfit is a Luiseño professor who wants American Indians to control how they're represented in media. She heads the largest Native peoples film festival in the state. Read more/news/2016/nov/01/american-indian-heritage-month-joely-proudfit/
Meet American Indian Heritage Month Local Hero Randy Edmonds
Randy Edmonds is a tribal elder who's coached fellow Indians through a common evolution: moving from life on a reservation, to life in the city. He's dedicated to tradition, and ... Read more/news/2016/nov/01/meet-american-indian-heritage-randy-edmonds/
San Diego's Top Weekend Events: Latin Sounds, Icons And Flavors
- Aug. 18
- By Maureen Cavanaugh, Nina Garin
This weekend brings a celebration of Latin food, music — even an iconic Argentinian leader — plus a salute to "Fiddler on the Roof."
Increasing Number Of Leopard Sharks Off La Jolla Attracts Snorkelers, Scientists
- Aug. 18
- By Katie Schoolov
Changing ocean temperatures have brought more leopard sharks to La Jolla Shores this summer than the previous two years, and the public can join Birch Aquarium for guided shark snorkels through September.
42-Year-Old SeaWorld Orca Dies
- Aug. 16
- By City News Service
SeaWorld is in mourning Wednesday for the matriarch of the park's orca family.
Research Marine Mammal's Move To Tourist Park Causes Stir
- Aug. 8
- By Associated Press
Compared with other marine mammals, 40-year-old Kina has lived a particularly winding and high-profile life.
San Diego Researchers Race To Keep Rhinos From Going Extinct
- Aug. 7
- By Erik Anderson
San Diego Zoo researchers are working to save a critically endangered rhino species that is teetering close to extinction. Scientists are using southern white rhinos as surrogates in a last-ditch effort to save northern whites.
Kathryn Bigelow's 'Detroit' Tells The True Story Of The Algiers Motel Incident
- Aug. 4
- By Beth Accomando
Kathryn Bigelow’s new film “Detroit” looks to the tragic events at the Algiers Motel during the 1967 riots in the Motor City. For five days in 1967, Detroit was rocked by violent unrest that would leave 43 dead, hundreds injured, thousands arrested, and neighborhoods burned to the ground.
Volunteers Bring 'Free Food Park' To City Heights
- Aug. 2
- By Maureen Cavanaugh, Michael Lipkin
The volunteer group Eat San Diego launched the city's largest free food park in City Heights on Saturday, planting a peach tree, strawberries, kale and other fruits and vegetables. Once the food is ready this fall and winter, it will be available for anyone to pick and eat.
Carlsbad Students Get Lesson In Media Literacy On Trip To Greece
- July 31
- By Megan Burks
Fifteen students from the Pacific Ridge School traveled to Greece in May to get to the truth of the migrant crisis there.
San Diego Zoo Makes First Attempt At Inseminating Southern White Rhino
- July 25
- By City News Service
Researchers at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research announced Tuesday that they've made their first attempt to artificially inseminate a southern white rhinoceros, in an attempt to save the critically endangered northern white rhino.
Tijuana Cracks Down On Yellow Taxis Amid Harassment Of Tourists And Residents
- July 24
- By Jean Guerrero
Tijuana's Taxis Amarillos, or Yellow Taxis, have been banned from sidewalks where they have long gathered after a violent clash with Uber riders, including a Chula Vista resident.