San Marcos News

Maddie Hahn of High Tech High School in San Marcos shows one of the QR codes she and her classmates created on the Botanical Trail in the Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve.

Children also participate in arts and crafts, storytelling and outdoor play. Classes are held at the San Marcos Community Center and San Elijo Recreation Center.

A total of 27 suspects with outstanding warrants were arrested Saturday after officials from the San Diego County Sheriff's Department conducted a warrant sweep in the North County and South Bay.

Cal State San Marcos will gain about 500 students this fall, pushing the campus past 11,000 for the first time and extending a period of growth that's largely being fueled by students seeking jobs in science, technology and health.

For the first time, Fresh Origins Farm, San Marcos, Calif. is offering nine varieties of its MicroGreens line to retail consumers.

Northrup Schlueter APLC , a full-service law firm based in both Santa Barbara and Westlake Village, announced that Jillian Morphis has joined the firm as an associate.

Mission Hills High School graduate TJ Blackburn makes his student commencement speech during the Mission Hills High School graduation ceremony in San Marcos on Friday.

A newly built single-family home that is sold is seen in San Marcos, California, January 30, 2013.

SAN MARCOS, Calif. & SALTON CITY, Calif. -- -- Juan Bautista de Anza Charter School , a tuition-free public school serving students, grades 6 through 12, from the Coachella Valley to the Mexican border, will hold its awards program and graduation for middle and high school at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 8, at La Casa del Zorro in Borrego Springs.

A bicyclist travels on the first leg of the Inland Rail Trail, which runs from Escondido to San Marcos.

Adult party hosts be warned. With graduations under way and summer approaching, sheriff's deputies plan to step up enforcement of social host laws in the cities and communities they patrol.

Hundreds of current and former law enforcement officers revved their engines Saturday for an officer down memorial motorcycle rally in San Marcos.

Hundreds of current and former law enforcement officers revved their engines Saturday for an officer down memorial motorcycle rally in San Marcos.

An 18-year-old who allegedly was intoxicated when he got into a head-on freeway wreck that killed a 22-year-old driver in Rancho Penasquitos was booked into jail Thursday on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of a controlled substance.

The robber entered the business on Center Drive, near Nordahl Road, about 9:35 p.m. and ordered an employee and customers to the back of the store, sheriff's Lt.

Siblings Debra Martin, left, Raleigh Bertrand and Marcheline Bertrand, the mother of actress Angelina Jolie.

Portions of land in and around Oceanside were added to California's Light Brown Apple Moth quarantine this week after inspections turned up four apple moths.

ONTARIO More than 160 students from the Victor Valley took a step into the next phase of their lives Wednesday night at the Options for Youth graduation ceremony.

Teacher Tina Hernandez observed her students in Mission Hills High School's North County Culinary Academy on Wednesday morning as they worked on the two-year program's final exam.

Over the years, political correctness has become a hot-button issue for me. Whether it's controversy over an invocation at a City Council meeting in Lake Elsinore, having Harvest Festivals instead of Halloween parties, avoiding carols in the holiday program at a local elementary school, self-styled crusaders demanding the removal of the crosses at ... (more)