Santee

Changes may be coming to one of San Diego County’s most popular holiday light displays. Local leaders in Santee are discussing changes to Starlight Circle because of the crowds and traffic.

City leaders are proposing changes to the popular Starlight Circle holiday display event, which is privately operated but has some concerned about traffic and noise, reports NBC 7’s Kelvin Henry

The location of this shelter is a strategic win, allowing the county to provide more animal services to unincorporated communities. NBC 7’s Todd Strain has more from the unique groundbreaking.

Local law enforcement, firefighters and members of the military are learning how to analyze IEDs and similar types of explosions. NBC 7’s Dave Summers gives us an inside look at the unique training.

Special training got underway in San Diego to deal with explosions caused by improvised explosive devices and homemade bombs. Law enforcement, firefighters and members of the military are learning to investigate these types of explosions.

The city said it’s investigating what information may have been compromised as well as what led up to the incident but that it could take weeks or even months to complete its probe

It’s been 23 years since a shooting at Santana High School in Santee. A parole hearing for the gunman was held on Sept. 10, 2024. NBC 7’s Jackie Crea reports.

Some survivors plan to plead their case for the shooter to stay in prison. NBC 7’s Omari Fleming spoke to two survivors on Sept. 9, 2024.

The shooting left 14-year-old Bryan Zuckor and 17-year-old Randy Gordon dead and 13 others injured.

The 2001 Santana High School shooter, who killed two students and wounded more than a dozen other victims at the Santee campus, is due for a parole hearing next month and prosecutors made a public call Wednesday for victims of the shooting to participate in the upcoming hearing.

San Diego County’s newest Trader Joe’s location opens to the public on Thursday, located at 9680 Mission Gorge Rd. Santee, CA 92071, where the Best Buy used to be.

Two elderly adults were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a Santee senior living home on Tuesday morning, following a similar incident at the same facility earlier this year, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.

NBC 7’s Jackie Crea spoke to neighbors about the tragedy.

In Santee, the LGBTQ community celebrated its 3rd Annual “Pride Walk & Festival” on Saturday, making one year since the controversy over a transgender woman’s use of the Santee YMCA’s women’s locker room. It sparked a political battle inside Santee’s City Council chambers. Christynne Wood, the transgender woman at the center of the controversy, spoke at the Pride event,...

Authorities Monday publicly identified an infant who died two weeks ago after being left in a parked SUV outside her family’s eastern San Diego County home for about nine hours.

It’s been a year since the controversy over a transgender woman’s use of the Santee YMCA’s women’s locker room. NBC 7’s Dita Quinones takes a look at how far the city of Santee has come since that heated debate.

The San Diego Sheriff’s Department said deputies responded to a 911 call on June 13 and found a baby girl unresponsive in an SUV outside of a home.

A raging fire at the billion-dollar drinking water treatment project near Santee Lakes halted construction and forced workers to evacuate on Wednesday before firefighters got a handle on the flames a couple of hours later.

The fire halted construction and forced workers to evacuate before firefighters got a handle on the flames a couple of hours later. NBC 7’s Jackie Crea has the latest on the damage and impact to the project.

Fire crews appear to be getting a handle on a fire at a water reclamation plant being built in Santee.