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This is the first time a business owner in San Diego County has been charged for violating the county's public health order.

Election day is three months away, but voting will start much earlier and already questions are swirling around how safe and secure voting will be. San Diego County Registrar of Voters, Michael Vu, answers your voting questions.

Giant Kelp have survived off the Southern California coast for hundreds of years, but the iconic plant may be in trouble as the ocean warms.

Evictions are set to begin once again in California starting on September 1st. Plus: For the second consecutive day on Thursday, the county's COVID case count has stayed below 100 per 100-thousand people, two big virtual events you won’t want to miss and more of the local news you need. Support San Diego News Matters by becoming a member today: http://www.kpbs.org/donate

Parents and teachers are staring down the challenge of introducing kids to school for the very first time without actually having them in a physical classroom. Some will have it a lot easier than others. Also, Customs and Border Protection said its new procedures are to discourage non-essential travel, to stop the spread of COVID-19. Over the weekend, wait times of up to seven hours were reported at the San Ysidro and Otay ports of entry. Plus, Margaret Hunter, who pleaded guilty along with her husband — former Rep. Duncan Hunter — to illegally spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds for personal purposes, was sentenced Monday to eight months of home confinement, slated to begin immediately, and three years probation.

The mayor of Seville, Spain, has announced a new program — the world's first — to give official names to severe heat waves. The hope is that such a system will make people take them more seriously.

A new interview series that focuses on diversity and inclusion in the national theatre scene debuts Friday at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. It's called "Theatre Corner" and will also air on KPBS Saturday at 4:30 p.m.

A mismanaged real estate deal for a downtown office building is costing the city of San Diego thousands of dollars per day, the San Diego County Sheriff wants to streamline the outsourcing of inmate health care, and how telecommuting during COVID-19 might change our long term work culture.

Her case is one of many involving people of color that don't get much public attention, raising complaints of a phenomenon known as “missing white woman syndrome.”

The U.S. Marine Corps has identified all nine people killed when a Marine landing craft sank in hundreds of feet of water off the Southern California coast.