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The $1 billion desalination plant under construction in Carlsbad is nearly two-thirds completed, the developer announced Wednesday.

Do cities destroy nature or are they part of nature? Astrophysicist Adam Frank looks at a new book attempting to answer that question — which he says could be a key to our collective future.

Residents will have to pay for wasteful outdoor watering, including hosing down driveways and and washing a car without a shut-off nozzle.

An effort to create commemorative Salton Sea license plates has been slow to take off.

Amid California's severe drought, water officials announced Friday the State Water Project might not make any deliveries this year, but this won't have an immediate impact on San Diego County, according to San Diego County Water Authority.

Veteran firefighter Brian Fennessy plans on increasing racial and gender diversity within the ranks as the new chief of the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.

The San Diego County Water Authority said it will no longer accept applications for its lawn replacement rebate program, because pending requests will exhaust all the remaining funding.

The Colorado River provides majority of San Diego County’s water supply. But just like the record-dry Sierra, from where San Diego used to get 20 percent of its supply, the Colorado River is also under sustained pressure from drought and demand.

Recent California storms are helping refill the state's reservoirs and the weather systems are putting snow up in the Sierra Nevada mountains

Drought and global warming have inspired San Diego scientists to explore ways to increase drought tolerance in crops. Their research will be published in the journal Science.