COVID-19

As a record-breaking heat wave continues across the San Diego region, people can seek relief in cool zones.

Following a two-week decline, San Diego’s unemployment rate has climbed to 14.2% this month, leaving 242,000 San Diegans out of work.

San Diego County has officially been removed from the state's COVID-19 monitoring list, setting in motion a 14-day countdown that could see K-12 students back in the classroom as soon as Sept. 1.

City Councilman Chris Cate proposed the idea in mid-July, and the San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a similar ordinance for county parks on Aug. 5.

A gym in University Heights has stayed open for weeks in violation of the COVID-19 public health order. One citation was not enough to convince the owner to close.

Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday announced the first California county was officially removed from the state’s watch list. But even though local officials said it met the criteria last week, San Diego wasn’t the region Newsom named.

The report Monday does not link the poor practices to the worst outbreak, which resulted from a botched transfer of infected inmates from a Southern California prison to San Quentin State Prison. But the report criticizes the corrections department for vague rules and inadequately trained staff that allowed some visitors and employees to enter prisons before they were properly screened

It's a jewel along San Diego's South Bay Coastline. But The Living Coast Discovery Center needs financial help to survive because of COVID-19.

Public health officials on Sunday reported 334 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths as of Saturday.

For the fourth day in a row, San Diego County public health officials Saturday reported a case rate of fewer than 100 positive COVID-19 tests per 100,000 people.