San Diego County News

The City Council is scheduled Wednesday to take the first step in calling for residents to conserve water on a voluntary basis following the third straight winter with below-average rainfall.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today commended three California schools and one school district honored by the U.S. Department of Education with its third annual Green Ribbon Schools award.

The green tops of brush filling the canyons and terrain throughout San Diego County is merely masking a potentially dangerous situation.

Labor trafficking -- or recruiting a person for labor through force, fraud, or coercion for involuntary servitude, debt bondage, or even slavery -- has been a difficult problem to track among undocumented migrant workers.

A woman's whose burning body was discovered last month in Alpine may have been murdered over custody of a baby, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.

On Saturday, April 26th, residents in San Diego county are invited to get rid of left-over and expired prescription drugs by taking the unused medications to drop-off locations in their city.

She will be supporting the twelve-member, public agency and private sector board of directors in leading the organization to advance Mobility 21's mission to promote regional transportation solutions, improve mobility throughout the region and bring increased transportation funding to Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San ... (more)

The brand first purchased a canning facility on the San Diego waterfront over 30 years ago, and is getting back to its roots with a move to the historic Showley Bros.

The Preuss School at UC San Diego ranked fifth in the state and 42nd in the country on the list of America's best high schools, released Tuesday by US News & World Report Magazine.

The San Diego County Sheriff's Dept. has reported that a body was found on Sunday, April 20 in the Hell Hole Canyon Ecological Preserve in Valley Center.

It's a startling phone call you could receive: "There's a warrant out for your arrest."

Leo Hamel Fine Jewelers has launched a new television branding campaign with four new commercials that have begun airing on various networks in San Diego County.

Conservation group I Love a Clean San Diego will host its annual cleanup Saturday at more than 90 coastal and inland sites throughout San Diego County.

Violent crimes were on the decline last year across San Diego County, including a big drop in homicides, according to new statistics from the San Diego Association of Governments .

The ilk of human kindness: Older women with gumption score high on compassion, says a new study, " From suffering to caring: a model of differences among older adults in levels of compassion ," published online April 15, 2014 in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry .

Frilly dresses and bow ties adorned the knee-high egg hunting crowd at Mission Beach Sunday morning in front of Belmont Park for the second annual egg hunt in the sand.

The 71-year-old man killed in a chain reaction crash on Interstate 8 in La Mesa late Friday night was publicly identified today.

San Diego County got a few little April showers. What does that mean in relation to the statewide drought? Unfortunately, not much.

Among the most compassionate people in society are women and people who have either recently suffered a personal loss - such as an illness or death in the family - or self-report greater levels of emotional resiliency.

SAN DIEGO -- A 26-year-old San Diego man was arrested Saturday morning on suspicion of drunk driving and vehicular homicide after two passengers in his Nissan Sentra were killed in a high-speed crash.