UC San Diego Health laid off 230 workers — about 1.5% of its workforce — across its clinics and hospitals last week. The cuts include many frontline workers.
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Beach areas in La Jolla and Coronado are now open after being closed due to excessive bacteria levels. -
San Diego Gas & Electric's launch this week of an Instagram account highlighting wildfire prevention efforts could be called "the G.O.A.T.," as the domesticated farm animal is its main attraction. -
Kathleen Lang, a health care corporation administrator, was chosen to replace fired CEO Miguel Figueroa. Two supervisors voted no due to the higher salary Lang will be paid. -
Workplace raids, arrests in immigration court and detentions of people without criminal records show how President Donald Trump’s deportation strategy is taking shape locally. -
As San Diegans respond to recent government actions through art, we look at how protest signs, zines and installations connect today’s movements to a long history of resistance. -
The county supervisor campaign for Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre has filed a public records lawsuit against the city of Chula Vista for allegedly failing to turn over a letter McCann authored in support of a Chula Vista woman imprisoned for fraud. -
Longtime opinion editor Laura Castañeda says The San Diego Union-Tribune fired her last week shortly after managers nixed an editorial on the ICE raids in Los Angeles. -
Crews are being flown in by helicopter to fight the fire on steep rugged terrain. Evacuation orders remain in place, but no structures are threatened, according to CalFire. -
After more than four hours of public testimony, the council voted to cap the number of ADUs allowed on each property to between four and six. -
The San Diego Police Department will host a drive- thru gun exchange event this weekend.
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