Vacation rental opponents hold up banners outside of a City Council meeting. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz San Diego’s busy summer tourism season arrived this weekend but long-sought rules to regulate the city’s booming vacation-rental…

The Imperial Beach shoreline was closed to beachgoers on Memorial Day after recent rainfall pushed sewage-contaminated runoff from the Tijuana River into local beaches. The water contact closure, initially issued on Nov. 29, was expanded on…

A fourth deadline has come and gone for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide detailed information about a secret surveillance program tied to the Central American caravans that traveled to the U.S-Mexico border.U.S.…

Westview High School / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Earlier this year as part of our investigation into sexual misconduct in public schools, we detailed how a Westview High School teacher sent sexually suggestive text messages…

The remnants of a plastic doll lay alongside the Tijuana River. / Photo by Sam Hodgson It is raining plastic, according to federal researchers. A new paper by the U.S. Geological Survey finds that plastic…

Parents of a Mar Vista Academy student say their child was sent messages through a gaming system over the weekend, threatening to kill him at school on Monday.For several months, Mayra Ruiz said she and…

To help make sure you stay informed on the most shared and talked about stories in San Diego County, each Saturday we'll revisit five stories from the previous week and capsulize them in this digest…

Sylvia Velasquez enjoys serving up soup and other Mexican cuisine with a little love and laughter at El Amigo Mexican and Seafood in Imperial Beach.But she says the city's proposed single-use plastic ban ordinance, that…