City News Service

A spell of blustery Santa Ana winds coupled with a significant warming trend will heighten San Diego-area wildfire hazards — potentially to near-critical levels — for the remainder of the work week.

Board Chairman Nathan Fletcher and Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer and Nora Vargas voted in favor of the change, while Supervisor Joel Anderson opposed it.

San Diego County has reported 441 new cases of COVID- 19 and 13 new virus-related deaths in its latest data.

A San Diego Sheriff's deputy shot a 20-year-old man in front of a home in a neighborhood just south of Vista High School on Sept. 28.

The turning point, following months of vitriolic public meetings, was one man who said he wanted several of the supervisors dead and directed a racial slur at county Public Health Director Dr. Wilma Wooten, who is Black.

According to Gloria's proposal, the language of the city's investment policy would "be updated to prohibit direct city investment in fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum and natural gas." The policy will go before the city council next week.

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.