City News Service

The UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute will launch blood stem cells into space aboard a NASA support mission to the International Space Station Tuesday in an effort to study the impact of lack of gravity on human cellular aging.

A preliminary magnitude-6.2 earthquake shook Baja California and parts of San Diego Tuesday morning.

The study also is intended to identify improvements to better connect North County Transit District's BREEZE buses and SPRINTER hybrid rail to increase accessibility and pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

Last month's rates compare with an unadjusted unemployment rate of 3.8% for California and 3.4% for the nation during the same period.

The strike is the nation's largest since 2019, the largest at any academic institution, and first by postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers.

An environmental group has filed a lawsuit seeking to block initial work on the planned replacement of the Ocean Beach Pier, which the group alleges is going forward without proper environmental review.

The latest in-custody death comes on the heels of news that a sheriff’s deputy was arrested for allegedly having illegal drugs on county jail property.

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.