Valley Center News

Many celebrities have come and gone in Valley Center. But once bodybuilder and actor Steve Reeves discovered the rural town in 1957, he put down permanent roots.

It was in fourth grade, playing a oespin the bottle.a I was hanging out with an older girl and her friends.

Most leaders in the San Joaquin Valley have approved regional planning cooperation pacts, pledging more compact growth with less pollution.

A woman killed in a collision in Escondido last week has been identified as Shawn Lynn McFate of Escondido, the Medical Examiner's Office said Monday.

SDG&E's plan to turn off electricity in parts of the backcountry during strong Santa Ana winds to prevent fires is being applauded by some as a positive move, and condemned by others as potentially causing ...

Escondido City Councilman Sam Abed is running for re-election. Editor's note: This is the first in a series of profiles on candidates running for two seats on the Escondido City Council in the Nov.

People walk around the block Saturday at Grape Day Park as part of the first Friends of the Poor Walk.

A woman and her husband were tied up by armed robbers who broke into their home Sunday night, sheriff's officials said.

A task force of fire experts has drafted a map that predicts that three specific areas of San Diego County are at risk for disastrous wildfires similar to the blazes that took out 4,300 homes and killed 29 ...

Wearing a Scooby-Doo tie and an ear-to-ear grin, Bill Kvitli could have passed for the host of a children's show when he was talking earlier this week to his students at Valley Center Primary School.

A Southern California tribe has rescued Escondido's annual Christmas parade. The city's new budget-tightening security fee had threatened the 58-year-old holiday parade.

The Rincon Indian tribe has given Escondido residents an early Christmas present ---- $15,000 donation that has rescued the city's annual holiday parade from possible cancellation.

New U.S. Census Bureau figures show that immigration tapered off nationally last year.

Inland temperatures have hit some impressive highs today. Unofficially: Borrego Springs, 107; Portrero, 103; Campo, 101; Valley Center, 98; Ramona Airport, 97; Alpine, 95.

This November, voters will have a chance to weigh in on a measure that would change how farm animals are housed.

While workers are busy creating a large solar plant that will help power one of its pump stations, the Valley Center Water District this week agreed to yet another smaller project that will harness the sun's ...

Local history buffs have long known that the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson briefly lived in San Bernardino as a young man.

Because national food banking network America's Second Harvest has officially changed its name to Feeding America, the local affiliate has also switched names.

The summer camp in the Cuyamaca Mountains seemed like any other, but it offered something special for hundreds of local foster children - a chance to play with their brother or sister.

The original plan for my daughter Carisa, her husband Jim, and the kids - Felicia and Chase: Leave Valley Center, CA at 3:00 a.m. Sunday, Sept.