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In the closing days of the legislative year, California lawmakers sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that is meant to toughen scrutiny of the state’s embattled fire insurer of last resort by insisting that two of their leaders join its governing committee.
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Encinitas Union School District officials confirmed federal agents arrested the father of a student near Park Dale Lane Elementary School Wednesday morning. -
The signs suggest that the public avoid the immediate area and any contact with the river water. -
As an intense late-summer heat wave descends on inland San Diego County Tuesday, the San Diego Humane Society reminded county residents to take precautions with their animals. -
Wildfires are common in California and can happen any time of year. A wildfire researcher at San Diego State University shares three ways to prepare. -
Temperatures could get up to 115 degrees in Borrego Springs, Ocotillo Wells and surrounding locales. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom alleges the Trump administration broke a 19th Century law called the Posse Comitatus Act when it deployed military units to Los Angeles in June. -
Firefighters have stopped forward progress on an 88-acre brush fire burning near Roadrunner Lane and Moonlit Trail Boulevard by Interstate 8.
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A judge Friday denied a request from the defense attorneys representing Larry Millete — the Chula Vista man charged with murdering his wife, who has been missing for more than four years after vanishing from her home — to move his murder trial away from the Chula Vista courthouse. -
The Canyon Fire ignited Thursday afternoon and grew to more than 7.6 square miles by Thursday night and remained uncontained. -
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