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Use of electronic cigarettes - also known as e-cigarettes or e-cigs - doubled among middle school and high schools students between 2011 and 2012.

Be on the lookout for an important Santa and law enforcement operation Saturday.

Multiple crashes Saturday on a stretch of state Route 67 near Lakeside were expected to tie up traffic, fire officials said.

Signs posted along the shoreline of Lake Calavera warning of possible contamination were removed on Thursday, more than a week after escaped sewage flowed from a storm drain into a nearby creek and eventually into the lake.

A winter storm was expected to bring gusty wind and significant amounts of snow to parts of San Diego County's mountains starting Saturday, meteorologists said.

The Carlsbad Desalination Project in Carlsbad, Calif., a $1 billion project financing implementing a public-private partnership between Poseidon Resources and the San Diego County Water Authority, was recently named the 2013 Deal of the Year.

SANTEE, Calif. - The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego is under fire after the name of a retired priest surfaced on a list of priests accused of sexual abuse against children.

Jurors have found Richard Tuite not guilty of voluntary manslaughter for the stabbing death of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe.

Jorge Sillas, 30, a member of the once powerful Arellano FA©lix drug trafficking organization, apologized in court before being sentenced to 21 years and four months behind bars.

A winter storm moving in from the Northwest will bring significant snowfall to the San Diego County mountains this weekend, meteorologists said today.

A San Diego sheriff's deputy hit a pedestrian in a motorized wheel chair. The incident was captured on video.

The staff members gave the animals a brief check-up, vaccinations for rabies and other diseases prevention vaccinations, flea medication, microchips, treats, and warm coats and sweaters.

Activists across California continue to pressure Governor Jerry Brown and the state Public Utilities Commission to replace the retiring San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant with clean energy.

"The death penalty, I believe, is broken in California. I also believe it can certainly be fixed," Matt Clay, president of the Deputy Sheriff's Association of San Diego County, told reporters.

The entire room was adorned in paintings and drawings all done by, "The Art Kids of San Diego County."

A man arrested on suspicion of making a fake bomb threat that prompted the Thanksgiving Day closure of a San Diego County interstate will not face felony charges.

California's economic recovery has been a mixed bag with coastal regions seeing healthy job growth while inlands areas continue to struggle, according to the UCLA Anderson Forecast.

The MiraCosta College Board of Trustees has voted to adjust its trustee area boundaries to accommodate North San Diego County's growing population and to change from an "at large" voting method to an area-specific system.

The Imperial Beach City Council looked to revise its social host ordinance by tying up some loopholes the California Court of Appeal ruled were unconstitutional.