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Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill aimed at closing loopholes in California’s firework regulations in the wake of last year’s deadly explosion in Esparto.
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A pair of Pacific hurricanes will influence San Diego County weather early this week, primarily by sending tropical moisture and ocean swells northward toward Southern California, before a drying and warming trend takes hold for the remainder of the week. -
Voter information pamphlets for California's Nov. 3 general election are being mailed to more than 2 million registered voters in San Diego County beginning this week. -
The errors were introduced as part of some county property-tax bills but stemmed from a city mistake and led to solid waste management fees that were higher than they should have been — in some cases, by hundreds of dollars. -
Last week, KPBS offered subscribers of our new Spanish-language WhatsApp channel, Línea Directa, the opportunity to have their questions about the U.S. citizenship and naturalization process answered. -
After years of hoses run town to town during wildfires, Fire Chief Willie Sapeta built an alliance to fix it himself. No state agency requires it or pays for it — so Lake County is testing portable hydrants before the next fire. -
Two years after opening up in National City, the film photography lab has moved to Third Avenue. -
This weekend's arts top picks include "Edgeless" at SDSU University Art Gallery; Rupy Kaloti at OMA; Future Is Color celebrates Coltrane; "Our Lady of the San Diego Convention Center"; Sundance Short Film Tour; ballet in Tijuana and more. -
San Diego Port district staff met with community members between May and July to find a new name for the bayside park. The Board of Port Commissioners unanimously approved Chicano Park on the Bay. -
Tanner Blackman’s job is to push housing projects through Los Angeles’ famously Byzantine permitting process. With a torrent of state laws aimed at streamlining and speeding up approvals to combat the housing shortage, will the humble permit expediter profession survive? -
Insurance companies are starting to write new policies in California again after years of holding back as wildfire risk climbed higher.
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