City News Service

The blaze erupted for unknown reasons shortly after 11:30 a.m. near Black Wood and Old Mine roads, several miles north of Interstate 8 in the Boulevard area, according to Cal Fire

Walkable neighborhoods promote active behaviors like walking for leisure or transportation to school, work, shopping or home, the authors wrote.

A slow warming trend in San Diego County was predicted to continue Tuesday, the last day of spring, into Wednesday.

Cooling was predicted to spread inland over San Diego County Monday with gusty southwest to west winds in the mountains and deserts into this evening, the National Weather Service said.

It was reported that all scheduled bus routes in the South Bay and East County are anticipated to operate on a normal schedule starting Monday.

San Diego State University could be exiting the Mountain West Conference, according to various reports, but officials remained cagey Friday about a possible conference switch.

Earlier this month, supervisors unanimously voted to oppose any further placements of sexually violent predators until local jurisdictions are able to fully participate in the placement process, including having full veto authority.