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KPBS Midday EditionAs California seeks 100% zero-carbon electricity by 2045, momentum is building behind renewable energy projects. Several wind or solar projects are moving forward in southeastern San Diego County, where backcountry residents’ interests sometimes clash with those of the developers and public officials. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe heatwaves that have rippled across the Western United States this summer are causing problems for wildlife researchers. In the desert outside San Diego, an annual bighorn sheep count was cancelled after a volunteer died of heatstroke. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego County Supervisors voted to create an office of environmental and climate justice by fall. District 1 supervisor Nora Vargas pushed to make that happen. -
Ray Sweeney, a 20-year veteran of the La Mesa Police Department, has been selected to head the agency, city officials announced Thursday. -
Due to the potential for dangerously hot conditions, an NWS excessive-heat watch will be in effect for the local deserts from Sunday morning through Monday evening. -
Firefighters in East County continued to battle a 4550-acre vegetation fire in Canebreak Canyon Sunday. -
magnitude-4.6 earthquake has rattled Southern California but no damage or injuries are reported. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck at 9:39 p.m. Friday a few miles from the the town of Niland in Imperial County near the Salton Sea. -
How and why Sandra Daniels was driving on the wrong side of the interstate — at speeds as fast as 90 mph, witnesses told the CHP — remains under investigation. -
San Diego County code compliance officers also discovered several dangerous violations and environmental-related crimes related to the operation. -
The changes to policing in La Mesa one year after a destructive riot, local governments spend millions of dollars on public relations campaigns and Scripps Health recovers from a cyber attack.
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