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San Diego housing agencies start ensuring rent increases are legal
Dec 23, 2024 · San Diegans, similar to residents in other communities, are grappling with a worsening housing and homelessness crisis. Oversight and accountability for federal housing programs is key to stretch limited funding to those who need it most. This year, three public housing agencies in San Diego County ...
How locals are fighting to shape SoCal’s Lithium Valley in 2025
Jan 7, 2025 · As companies race to tap the vast lithium stores deep under Southern California’s Salton Sea, estimated to be worth billions, locals hope a tax will channel some profits to long-overdue social welfare and infrastructure projects. Subscribe and get our journalism delivered directly to your inbox ...
Asylum seekers in Mexico wait months on end to enter U.S.
Nov 1, 2024 · A woman from southwestern Mexico shows the bullet wound in her husband’s shoulder, Oct. 22, 2023. They fled to Tijuana with their family to seek asylum in the United States.
How $1B makeover will reshape Chula Vista bayfront in 2025
Jan 8, 2025 · A massive resort and convention center in Chula Vista will finally be debuting along the city’s shimmering bayfront this summer. The Port of San Diego and Chula Vista are putting their funds together to give the city’s bayfront a billion-dollar makeover that will redevelop 535 acres to include a new hotel and convention center, carveouts for more park space, a recreational vehicle resort ...
Courts, science, new leaders could shape Tijuana River sewage …
Jan 6, 2025 · The Tijuana River sewage crisis is a decades old problem that’s only gotten worse. Over the last few years, unprecedented flows of untreated wastewater have inundated the Tijuana River estuary, flowing into and around border communities …
Oceanside to pay $1.5 million for sewage spill - inewsource.org
Nov 14, 2024 · The city of Oceanside has agreed to pay $1.5 million for illegally discharging almost 2 million gallons of sewage during what water regulators called a record-breaking storm in April 2020 that overwhelmed a sewage lift station and a water reclamation facility.
On the shores of the Salton Sea, a glimmer of the American Dream …
May 22, 2024 · About this project. For decades the Salton Sea has inspired stories of decay and abandonment. The lake, California’s largest, is drying up. As it shrinks, toxic dust from the lakebed stirs and blows into nearby communities where asthma rates have soared.
Courts deny challenge to California’s first lithium project
Jan 10, 2025 · A Superior Court judge says that the environmental review adopted by Imperial County for the region’s first commercial lithium extraction facility does not violate the California Environmental Quality Act, also known as CEQA, as petitioners claimed.
San Diego officials clash over “sanctuary” policies, deportations
Dec 19, 2024 · With a month remaining before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, tensions are rising in San Diego County as officials debate a key question in the incoming administration’s plans for the “largest deportation” in U.S. history: