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GoFundMe.org has teamed with an Inland Empire non-profit to distribute air conditioners and air and water purifiers to those in need just as the temperatures are predicted to rise to near 115 degrees in the desert.
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Chula Vista’s city manager said she’s ready to declare an emergency if the increasing trash becomes a health hazard. -
California’s biggest pension fund and markets around the world learned to live with President Trump’s tariff threats. CalPERS gained 11.6% on investments in 2024-25. -
Officials are shoring up water systems infiltrated by the golden mussel. Dogs and human inspectors are checking boats at some lakes, but a patchwork of oversight leaves many lakes unprotected. “There’s just too many boats and too many people out there,” one warden said. -
The Pangaea Chula Vista Sports Entertainment District would include a tennis center, three hotels with up to 700 rooms (in the project's first phase), a multiple-use stadium, a 300,000-square-foot retail area, two golf courses, an IMAX theater and other amenities. -
The building is more than 50 years old and beyond repair, city officials said. It's one of five blocks of city-owned real estate in downtown that leaders hope to revitalize. -
There's a new effort to expand homeless service capacity in North and East County San Diego. A local foundation is offering $10,000 for each shelter bed created before July 2026. -
San Diego city leaders Monday lifted an annual moratorium on public and private construction activity near the beach during the summer in an effort to speed up construction. -
"City officials are attempting to approve the 101 Ash St. (disposition and development agreement) and ground lease and related documents while concealing their essential terms from public scrutiny," the complaint filed in San Diego Superior Court reads. -
Supervisor Jim Desmond called SB 79 an “attack on the American dream”; Rep. Scott Peters said the American dream is opportunity. -
More than 20 Democratic-led states have sued President Donald Trump’s administration over billions of dollars in frozen funding for after-school and summer programs and other programs.
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