City News Service

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County topped $5 for the first time Friday.

A pair of low pressure systems will track over Southern California, preceded by a cold front, generating a mixed bag of atmospheric activity.

Thursday's data increased San Diego County's cumulative totals to 739,939 cases and 5,056 deaths since the pandemic began.

Philip James Weisbecker, who lived in Ocean Beach at the time, is set to be sentenced in June for joining the mob that entered the Capitol building.

The defendants, former members of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet, are charged with accepting bribes to steer business in the Western Pacific to Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia, which prosecutors say overbilled the Navy by more than $35 million to provide husbanding services.

There's a growing chorus of voices from various sides of the political spectrum calling for the state gas tax to be suspended.

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.

It's going to feel a lot like summer across much of San Diego County starting Wednesday.