A growing number of Russians and Ukrainians are traveling to Mexico, buying throwaway cars and driving across the border into the United States to seek asylum, a trend that could accelerate amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. | Continue reading
In a review of 351 container ports around the globe, Los Angeles was ranked 328, behind Tanzania's Dar es Salaam and Alaska's Dutch Harbor. The adjacent port of Long Beach came in even lower, at 333, behind Turkey's Nemrut Bay and Kenya's Mombasa. | Continue reading
As drought grips most of California, water thievery across the state has increased to record levels. The most-common culprit of water theft is illegal pot farming. | Continue reading
Tower Tech's mobile tower is equipped with everything an air traffic controller would require: weather-monitoring sensors, iPads to show air traffic, satellite dishes for the internet, phones and antennae for radios. | Continue reading
As California pursues herd immunity — or something close to it — some 37,000 state prison workers remain unvaccinated. In 30 of 35 institutions, less than half of employees are fully vaccinated. | Continue reading
Despie pedges from Gov. Gavin Newsom and leading Democratic lawmakers, infighting sunk several key pieces pieces of legislation to build more housing. | Continue reading
The committee voted to repeal an antiquated seditious language law that has been disproportionately used in recent years to punish Black San Diegans. | Continue reading
A physician who runs a Carmel Valley beauty treatments center was charged Thursday with mail fraud in connection with the sale of what he allegedly described as a coronavirus cure that could render people immune to the virus for at least six weeks. | Continue reading
The NASSCO shipyard on Monday delivered the largest combination containership/roll-on, roll-off vessel ever built in the United States. | Continue reading
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told a Balboa Park audience Saturday night that "it's time to go back to the moon. It's time to stay." Cheers erupted among 600 smartly dressed diners. | Continue reading
The San Diego City Council Monday tentatively approved an amendment to the city's municipal code to add a sixth development zone category aimed at spurring high-density housing developments near public transit and employment areas. | Continue reading
California’s water wars are often proxies for land-use disputes. How they are resolved in coming years will determine the state’s future. | Continue reading
The Salk Institute received $35 million for a bold plan to grow plants that can fight climate change by absorbing large amounts of carbon. | Continue reading
The apparent suicide victim was Wu Dawei, who went by David Wu, said China Central Ratings Agency of Hong Kong. | Continue reading
The American criminal justice system was created to cause pain, not to heal trauma. That’s the source of a lot of our problems. As District Attorney, I'll work to change this status quo. | Continue reading