Jules Hotz for CalMatters
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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The brush fire that scorched a little more than seven acres on Camp Pendleton is now 100 percent contained. Base officials say the blaze ignited just before 11 o'clock Tuesday morning in the Juliet impact area on the southeast side of the base. -
If anyone in San Diego were to be diagnosed with Ebola, they'd come to the isolation unit at the UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest. -
A pedestrian was fatally struck by a garbage truck on the offramp early Thursday. Traffic lanes remained closed in the area into the late morning Thursday to allow for investigation. -
About two dozen students marched through the campus of Cal State San Marcos to protest what they say is a lack of preventative measures. -
The discovery of four "yellow fever" mosquitoes — their formal name is Aedes aegypti — at Naval Base San Diego offices over the past two weeks prompted county vector control officials to start hunting them by putting up traps on and around the naval base. -
The USGS has proposed cutting the Precision Geodetic Network, or Geodesy, which measures tension along the San Jacinto Fault, and the ANZA Seismic Network, which has 21 sensors along the fault zone and five stations elsewhere. -
The Navy and Marines have teamed up at Camp Pendleton, on land and out at sea, for global crisis training. They're testing a new ship that could be a game-changer the next time troops are called for humanitarian assistance. -
San Diego's graffiti control program gets poor grades in a new audit, which found there are delays and the reporting process is too complicated. -
KPBS Midday EditionPolice officers, paramedics and firefighters all are trained and ready to respond when emergencies and tragedies occur. The first responders are a community's first line of defense. But who defends them against the memories of what they've seen and dealt with? -
The slaying of the deputies was the single deadliest day for California law enforcement since February 2013. One deputy was from Sacramento County, the other from Placer County.
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