Economy

The San Diego County Fair and other large events vanished due to COVID-19. So did major earnings for the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

Many local businesses will be forced to reduce capacity as San Diego slides into the state's most restrictive COVID-19 operating tier, women running for political office in San Diego County tell their stories about confronting receiving threats and harassment on social media, and artists go to court to preserve murals slated for demolition at a middle school in Logan Heights.

Voters have approved exempting the Midway District from San Diego's 30-foot coastal height limit, and property owners may now be enticed to redevelop their land. But don't expect revitalization to happen overnight.

Starting Saturday morning public health orders will require restaurants, gyms and churches to stop indoor operations after an increase in COVID-19 cases.

Salk Institute researchers hope to make plants much more efficient at catching and storing carbon.

The San Diego Housing Commission worked with the college to create the class that will train future housing coordinators, peer mentors and case managers within homeless services organizations.

San Diego County will soon be moving to the state’s most restrictive “purple” reopening tier, which is impacting small businesses’ operations, like the Huddle Restaurant in Mission Hills.

State data has landed San Diego County in the most restrictive tier of the state's COVID-19 reopening plan, meaning nonessential businesses now have one day to prepare for the regression.

Couples are struggling to redefine their own roles as they look to navigate a pandemic that has upended many aspects of domestic life.

Gyms, restaurants, churches and movie theatres will have to stop indoor operations by Saturday, due to a rising number of coronavirus cases San Diego County.