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The county Board of Supervisors should approve a special election rather than a political appointment to fill the District 1 seat vacated by Nora Vargas, a candidate said Tuesday.

Terra Lawson-Remer will continue as acting chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, after a vote Tuesday to pick a new leader failed.

San Diego County firefighters responded Tuesday to a brush fire near Julian amid strong Santa Ana winds that investigators later determined was started from someone mowing grass.

Bomb investigators were called to the Otay Mesa area Tuesday morning to investigate a suspicious item, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said.

The San Diego Wave FC has tapped Jonas Eidevall to take over the National Women’s Soccer League club.

The BNSF rail line off West 18TH Street could soon include a new biofuel terminal, if Houston-based USD Clean Fuels wins approval from the City of National City.

President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore drilling for oil and gas along most of the U.S. coast in a mad dash effort to halt any possible efforts by Trump’s incoming administration to increase offshore drilling.

A former San Diego police detective has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging retaliation and a cover-up within the San Diego Police Department to protect her sergeant husband after she reported domestic abuse.

Four San Diego State University fraternity members pleaded not guilty Monday to criminal charges stemming from a skit that allegedly involved intentionally setting one of the defendants on fire, causing him to suffer third-degree burns.

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, bishop of San Diego, has been appointed by Pope Francis to become the new Archbishop of Washington, D.C., it was announced Monday.

Sheel Seidler took action after seeing her place in the Padres franchise diminish.

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San Diego emergency crews rescued a man over the weekend who had been stranded in a Rose Canyon-area ravine for more than two days after falling and injuring himself, authorities said Monday.