SAN DIEGO–The Department of Environmental Health has lifted the water contact closure for the ocean shoreline at the Silver Strand State Beach. Recent water quality testing conducted by the environmental agency confirms that Tijuana River flows are no longer impacting these beaches. The area was recently closed to water contact due to sewage-contaminated flows from […]

SAN DIEGO–The Department of Environmental Health has lifted the water contact closure for the ocean shoreline at the Silver Strand State Beach. Recent water quality testing conducted by health agency confirms that Tijuana River flows are no longer impacting these beaches. This area was recently closed to water contact due to sewage-contaminated flows from the […]

SAN DIEGO–A 17-year-old high school student at San Ysidro High School is ill from confirmed meningococcal disease, an illness caused by the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis, the County Health and Human Services Agency reported on Tuesday. The previously healthy male was admitted to a local hospital Saturday morning and is recovering. HHSA has identified and notified family […]

SAN DIEGO–The Interstate 805 South Express Lanes Project construction crews will return to adjust bridge falsework (temporary wood forms) on the East Palomar Street overcrossing on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 18 and 19 requiring the closure of lanes on I-805. Both closures will occur overnight between Telegraph Canyon Road and East Orange Avenue in Chula […]

SAN YSIDRO–The U.S. General Services Administration will temporarily close three Interstate 5 southbound lanes (south of Camino De La Plaza) at the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry to accommodate the ongoing construction project. These easternmost lanes (lanes 1, 2, and 3) will be closed continuously from Sunday, January 12 at 10 p.m. to Friday, […]

IMPERIAL BEACH—Sheriff’s deputies are searching for a suspect who shot a man while he was walking near an intersection in Imperial Beach. Deputies from the Imperial Beach Substation said the responded to a radio call Sunday of a shooting victim in the 1100 block of Cypress Avenue. When deputies arrived, they located the victim, a […]

NATIONAL CITY–At tonight’s City Council meeting, National City approved the terms to phase out two businesses that pollute Old Town National City and endanger the health of students at Kimball Elementary School and families in Old Town National City within the next two years. Environmental Health Coalition (EHC), which fights toxic pollution in underserved communities, thanked the […]

BONITA–An 11-year-old female walking home Thursday afternoon from Twin Peaks Middle School was confronted by an unknown man standing in a driveway, a Sheriff’s deputy spokesman says. The girl was walking on Tierra Bonita Road when she saw a man standing in a driveway. After she walked by him, he walked past her on the […]