Quality of Life

Seaside Ridge is a proposed 259-unit apartment complex with 42 low-income units. The project has been stuck in legal maneuvering since 2022.

Proponents of the 4x4 schedule say it helps students fit more classes into the school year.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a version of Assembly Bill 435 that originally proposed to ban smaller teenagers from sitting in the front seat and to require short-statured youth to use booster seats into their middle school years.

The encampment along North Avenue is one of several along California State Route 94 the city and RTFH are tackling using an $8.4 million Encampment Resolution Fund grant. The Lemon Grove project has already seen more than 30 people staying at the encampment placed into housing with case management and ongoing support.

SB 79 overrides local zoning to allow apartment buildings near transit.

About 2,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses, pharmacists and other frontline staff in San Diego are on strike, demanding safer staffing, fair wages and better benefits.

Champions have argued the law will protect Jewish students from rising bullying and discrimination, sometimes from teachers. While the state does not collect data on antisemitism in schools, reports of anti-Jewish bias statewide have doubled between 2021 and 2024, according to the California Department of Justice. Last year, more than 15% of all hate crime events in California were anti-Jewish, even though Jewish people make up about 3% of the state population.

Makers of the chatbots would also be required to remind users that responses are artificially generated, and to create “reasonable measures” to prevent children from seeing sexually explicit content when using the bots. Kids using the bots would also get reminders to take breaks.

Heavy rain was expected to spread eastward across San Diego County Tuesday, with strong gusts this morning, but warmer weather should creep in by midweek into the weekend.

Book bans are on the rise across the country — but not in California. For the second year a local program is helping San Diego readers push back.