How San Diego County health officials are distributing limited monkeypox vaccines. In other news, we take a look at San Diego's efforts to recycle food waste. Plus, San Diego will be getting nearly 69 million dollars in state budget funding.

Appointments to receive the monkeypox vaccine at San Diego County’s vaccine event booked up fast. In other news, a San Diego man who almost died from a heart attack has a reunion with his rescuers. Plus, advocates of Friendship Park meet with Border Patrol as they try to save the park from an extended closure.

A juvenile transition center in Kearny Mesa helps incarcerated teens. In other news, Scripps researchers are among those with evidence bolstering the theory that the COVID virus jumped from animals to humans in a Wuhan, China market. Plus, San Diego will be the first city in the country to provide a child care center for police officers' families.

The governor of Baja California vetoed a ban on conversion therapy earlier this year, and now the region’s gay rights activists are fighting back. In San Diego County, wastewater shows that COVID cases are spiking. Plus, nearly 50,000 pounds of trash were left downtown after Comic-Con festivities ended.

COVID-related hospitalizations are rising, but far fewer people are in ICUs or on ventilators. Meanwhile, new overnight camping options are being considered at Silver Strand Beach in San Diego’s South Bay region. Plus, San Diego scientists create a new video game that takes kids on a scientific journey inside their body’s cells.

A new bill is making its way through the state legislature, to create a new legal option intended to help people living with a serious mental illness. Meanwhile, hotel workers downtown have ended their strike. Plus, a list of some of this weekend’s arts events happening around San Diego County.

Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, chairman of the San Diego County Democratic Party, took a leave of absence following allegations of sexual assault — allegations he denies. Now, another accusation has surfaced. Meanwhile, a record number of migrants have been injured while trying to cross the border illegally. Plus, thousands of South Bay students are back to school, with a new later start time.

As baseball hits its mid-season point, we talk to sportswriter Jay Paris about the Padres prospects. Meanwhile, mortgage rates are up, but house prices are going down. Plus, all things you need to know ahead of Comic-Con’s full return.

A review of police use-of-force incidents finds that it’s rare for local police officers to be fired or even suspended for shooting people or severely injuring them. Meanwhile, a plea was made by a relative of a black teenager stabbed in Lakeside three months ago. Plus, more oversight to come for Surveillance technology in San Diego.

Analysis of records of use-of-force incidents involving police in San Diego County finds officers are far more likely to shoot if the suspect is a person of color. Meanwhile, a local doctor and company that makes prosthetic limbs help amputees caught in the war in Ukraine. Plus, the San Diego Air and Space Museum uses new NASA images as teaching tool.