City News Service

Mayor Todd Gloria signed the Barrio Logan Community Plan Update into law today, replacing a 43-year old blueprint with one intended to end environmental racism in the San Diego neighborhood.

More than 2.42 million San Diegans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, representing roughly 76.9% of eligible residents.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday declared one of Southern California's rarest butterflies — the Hermes copper butterfly — as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The agency also designated 35,000 acres in San Diego County as protected critical habitat.

The judge said the district's mandate, which does not permit religious or personal belief exemptions, contradicts state law because implementing such mandates without exemptions can only be imposed by the state legislature.

The amount of COVID-19 virus detected in wastewater has predicted the region's COVID-19 caseload up to three weeks ahead of clinical diagnostic reports.

The number of coronavirus patients in San Diego County hospitals decreased by six people to 365, according to the latest state figures.

An odor advisory was was issued Monday weeks after the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District unveiled their new odor alert system.

A 19-year-old was arraigned Friday in connection with the crimes.

San Diego Fire-Rescue crews worked to put out a brush fire near Torrey Pines State Beach.