City News Service

Mayor Todd Gloria Wednesday appointed San Diego native Kirby Brady as the city's first chief innovation officer. Brady, who is Black, is one of the few women or people of color to be named CIO of a major American city.

Medical and law enforcement emergency services can now be summoned via text message in the San Diego area in situations when a traditional 911 call is impossible or unsafe, authorities announced Tuesday.

San Diego County public health officials Tuesday reported 1,814 new COVID-19 infections 56 deaths and a record number of hospitalizations.

County supervisors Tuesday voted unanimously in favor of committee selections, although one of them challenged the fairness of his assignments.

The new cases bring the county's confirmed cases of the variant to 28. The cases were confirmed by whole genome sequencing and the four probable cases are directly linked to the confirmed cases and have positive diagnostic nucleic acid tests, but are not yet sequenced.

Mayor Todd Gloria and City Council President Jennifer Campbell marked the completion of an important phase of the West Mission Bay Drive Bridge Tuesday.

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.