City News Service

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that state Capitol flags are being flown at half-staff in honor of married San Diego Police Department detectives killed last week in a wrong-way freeway crash in San Ysidro.

County supervisors Wednesday approved by a 4-1 vote an environmental review process for commercial cannabis operations in unincorporated areas, allowing for future expansion.

More than 2,000 rape kits from a dozen San Diego County law enforcement agencies have been tested following their delivery to an independent lab, the latest milestone in a three-year project to clear the county's untested sexual assault kit backlog, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.

A loud noise was heard across San Diego County Tuesday evening, but it was unclear what caused the boom.

A vehicle fire that left a man gravely injured in Escondido led deputies to find a woman dead inside a San Marcos home, and homicide detectives were investigating.

Dubbed Operation Trojan Shield, the San Diego-based FBI-led operation was centered around the creation of an encrypted phone company called ANOM.

California has been battered by 10 previous atmospheric rivers this winter.

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.