San Diego County's top transportation official is stepping down at the end of the year. In other news, enforcement of San Diego's recently passed Unsafe Camping Ordinance is now in effect. Plus, the Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park is starting a new program to reach families in underserved neighborhoods called Community Mornings.

The Biden administration says asylum seekers can’t come to the border without scheduling appointments through a phone app, and now advocates have filed a class action lawsuit against the policy. In other news, Operation Hope in Vista is one of the few family shelters in San Diego County offering families with children who are experiencing homelessness a safe space and help for a new beginning. Recently the shelter underwent some changes. Plus, the national trove of medical information called, All of Us, just got a $54 million grant to try to enlist people who will bring more diversity to the database.

California’s power grid is showing a little more stress this week during a persistent hot spell. In other news, a small group of indigenous athletes in San Diego are working to bring back one of the oldest team sports in history, called Ulama. Plus, we have details on some arts events happening this weekend in San Diego County.

San Diego Police can begin enforcing the city’s unsafe camping ordinance on Sunday. In other news, San Diego's largest community power agency is handing out its first public grants since the agency started buying power for about a million electricity customers in the spring. Plus, we learn about a summer camp giving kids a chance to ride the waves.

A relatively unknown contract that gives Customs and Border Protection access to San Diego County’s crime data has advocates worried. In other news, a North County private school just received millions of dollars that will go towards affordable housing for its teachers. Plus, researchers at San Diego State University have identified 60 chemical compounds in tire waste, and some of them are toxic.

Local artist Evan Apodaca is accusing the San Diego International Airport of censorship. The airport often features San Diego art, but it has removed Apodaca’s “Monumental Interventions” from its walls. The piece criticizes the military presence in the region. Speaking of art, protesters created street artwork in front of Sempra headquarters to protest fossil fuels. And some Comic-Con attendees weren’t disappointed with the lack of Hollywood at the convention. Many production companies scaled back their presence due to the writers’ and actors’ strikes.

The hearing continues in a civil case against former SDSU football star Matt Araiza. In other news, as part of the latest installment in KPBS’s series on public art, we explore San Diego’s curiously creative wastewater system. Plus, veterans are invited to join the Chula Vista's VA Summer VetFest on August 5. More information is available on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website, https://www.va.gov/san-diego-health-care/events/57781/.

As Team USA faces its first match in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, we talk about San Diego’s growing soccer fandom. In other news, this year’s Comic-Con is focusing less on Hollywood, and more on comics because of the writer and actor’s strikes. Plus, a look behind the scenes of a Comic-Con panel on busting myths, about scientists who are neither mad or villainous.

The VA is receiving a surge of claims ahead of a major deadline for the Pact Act. In other news, the Port of San Diego is celebrating the arrival of two massive electric powered cranes that’ll move cargo at the 10th Avenue Marine Terminal. Plus, the San Diego Unified School District will soon have more community schools, in hopes that the schools will improve absences and enrollment.

It’s hot over much of San Diego County, but at and near the coast the wet winter has kept it relatively cool this summer. In other news, a political fight is brewing over the typically bipartisan annual defense spending bill. Plus, how pop culture will be used to teach people about law at Comic-Con.