Couresy of UC San Diego
UC San Diego study of global lung cancer shows mutations that lead to cancer are common in people who live in cities with bad air pollution. But cancer mutations are quite close to normal among passive smokers.
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The San Diego City Council will receive a presentation at its meeting Monday on Mayor Todd Gloria's final proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2026. -
The family of Ashli Babbitt, the San Diego woman who was shot and killed during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach, has settled its wrongful death lawsuit with the federal government for nearly $5 million, it was reported Monday. -
The county Department of Environmental Health and Quality extended the closure of the Silver Strand shoreline on Sunday, due to sewage flow from the Tijuana River. -
The San Diego County Sheriff's Office is sending out extra patrols Monday near fertility centers following Saturday's deadly bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs. -
In recent years, dozens of officers worked more than 1,000 hours of overtime annually. Experts say these levels of extra work can lead to accidents and poor decision making in use of force situations. -
Miro Copic was a marketing expert, a San Diego State University lecturer, and a frequent guest on KPBS radio and television. He died this week, less than a year after being diagnosed with cancer. -
More than half of Imperial County residents have health insurance through Medi-Cal, which is California’s state and federally funded Medicaid program. -
San Diego County's unemployment rate decreased to 4% in April, down from a revised 4.2% in March and above the year-ago estimate of 3.8%, according to figures released today by the state Employment Development Department. -
Mild weather was expected to continue in San Diego County Friday, with cooler and windy conditions accompanied by possible light showers along and west of the mountains over the weekend, forecasters said. -
In San Diego’s Valencia Park neighborhood, a painted staircase was a gathering place for the community. After floods, they were unusable. A recent cleanup only raises more questions.
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