City News Service

On Monday, the Conrad Prebys Foundation launched the $10 million Strengthening Health Access, Resources, and Excellence Initiative, intended to provide two-year grants of up to $250,000 per year to health clinics that serve communities with low socio-economic status.

Forecasters are predicting widespread rain over San Diego County starting Monday.

Mayor Todd Gloria announced Friday the city had reached a three-year tentative agreement with labor unions representing nearly 2/3 of the city's workforce.

Caltrans construction crews will close a series of off-ramps on Interstate 8 in East County, beginning Friday and running through Thursday, for wrong-way driver pavement marking configuration, including recessed markers.

Three orphaned bear cubs, rehabilitated by the San Diego Humane Society's Ramona Wildlife Center, are back in the wild since Wednesday evening.

Metrolink shut down service at 1:11 p.m. after staff noticed the debris rolling down a hillside north of Metrolink's San Clemente Pier Station, said Metrolink spokesman Scott Johnson.

Officials with the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a statement in response to Southwest's cancellations, noting that the department will be looking into the situation.

The National Weather Service has issued an excessive-heat warning, effective from 10 a.m. Tuesday to 8 p.m. next Monday.

The department is looking to fill over 400 positions, and willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars in signing bonuses to attract new employees.