City News Service

San Diego State University has been selected to host the first and second rounds of the 2026 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.

Temperatures are expected to soar into the triple digits again Wednesday in the San Diego County valleys amid an autumn heat wave, according to the National Weather Service.

The commander of I Marine Expeditionary Force Tuesday relieved from duty the commander of a landing team involved in a training accident that killed nine young servicemen in the ocean near San Clemente Island, the Marine Corps announced.

San Diego County will remain in the red, or substantial, tier of the state's four-tier COVID-19 reopening plan for at least another week, and public health officials have reported 278 new COVID-19 infections and 14 deaths from the illness.

As part of its reopening plan amid the coronavirus pandemic, the San Diego Unified School District allowed some students facing severe challenges to return to in-person learning Tuesday, but a timeline for the district to reopen fully remains unclear.

Gov. Gavin Newsom reversed a parole board's decision to release a 59-year-old man who was a teenage gang member when he killed a San Diego police officer in 1978, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.

Mayor Todd Gloria and City Council President Sean Elo-Rivera Wednesday announced an update to San Diego's climate action initiative.

The announcement comes after a judge struck down San Diego's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, saying only the state can make that a requirement.

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.