City News Service

The rules, slated to remain in effect through the end of the year, are necessary due to "very high" wildland combustion threats stemming from drought, prevailing "critical fire weather," and dry brush.

Responding to outrage over tortillas being flung at a largely Latino team after it lost a championship basketball game at Coronado High School, the visiting team's school board will take up a resolution denouncing racism Thursday.

The council will hold hearings and vote in September on a package that also includes a water rate increase from the San Diego County Water Authority.

A young mountain lion who spent four months in the care of the San Diego Humane Society's wildlife team in Ramona has been released back into the wild, the human society said Wednesday.

Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner will offer expanded service for trains between San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, rail officials announced Wednesday.

The Coronado Unified School District Governing Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to fire Coronado High School boys' basketball coach JD Laaperi, three days after fans threw tortillas at the opposing team following a championship game.

Earlier this month, supervisors unanimously voted to oppose any further placements of sexually violent predators until local jurisdictions are able to fully participate in the placement process, including having full veto authority.