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President Joe Biden can now end a highly contested Trump-era immigration policy that forced thousands asking for asylum in the U.S. to await their cases from Mexico, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Those thousands of asylum-seekers include more than 600 currently enrolled in the Migrant Protection Protocols program –...

In what a private prison company called an “unprecedented decision,” a federal jail in downtown San Diego was granted an exception to an executive order issued by President Joe Biden, allowing the facility to remain open. Western Region Detention Facility has been the subject of extensive debate since...

Tens of thousands of students returned to campuses across San Diego Unified School District last week for summer school and enrichment programs, and more could join activities in coming weeks. Yet despite COVID-19 cases being on the rise across San Diego County, and having steadily increased in schools through the...

Confirmed COVID-19 cases remain high in San Diego county, with more than 7,000 cases reported for the most recent week data is available, and experts fear that new strains of Omicron might create a surge in infections, even among those with natural or vaccine immunity, in the coming weeks. The...

San Diego might be running afoul of court orders that dictate how city officials are supposed to clean homeless encampments, discard property and enforce a law about blocking a sidewalk, according to an inewsource analysis and two attorneys who fight for unsheltered San Diegans. Multiple incidents, both witnessed by inewsource...

The San Diego Association of Governments now has new policies meant to limit staff’s lavish restaurant spending and credit card misuse after a scathing audit, first reported on by inewsource, flagged expenses. Board members unanimously approved the rules during their board meeting Friday, now requiring staff to submit substantially...

Following inewsource’s investigation into Veterans Village of San Diego, state and federal lawmakers said they are working to address concerns about conditions at the nonprofit’s rehab center. State health officials are also investigating complaints against the treatment program. The reporting, published in four stories earlier this month, describes...

Lea este artículo en español. Maritza Noemi Machado Velasquez cooks lunch for her two sons outside over an open fire at a migrant shelter in the outskirts of Tijuana. The family whose journey from Honduras was treacherous — they were kidnapped for three months for ransom, she said — is comfortable at the shelter, where they hope to wait until they can ask for asylum in the United States.

One by one, developers sold local government officials in recent years on the promise of adding thousands of much needed homes to the San Diego region by placing them in the rural fringes of North and East County – including in areas where brush fires had recently burned down homes and clogged evacuation routes.

A Veterans Village of San Diego employee was fired after sharing her concerns about the organization with inewsource. Danelle Harrington, who used to work at Veterans Village as the warehouse donations coordinator, spoke out about drug use and other issues at the nonprofit’s rehab center on Pacific Highway in an inewsource investigation published last week.

So far this year, San Diego police have made eight times as many arrests for encroachment and illegal lodging — infractions largely directed at homeless people — compared to the same time last year, according to data inewsource obtained. In fact, the number of arrests for these crimes...

New policies meant to crack down on staff spending at the San Diego Association of Governments are now headed to the agency’s full board for approval. SANDAG’s audit committee unanimously approved new rules during its meeting Friday that would require more documentation for credit card purchases and set limits on business meals.

Fewer staff would be granted credit cards at the San Diego Association of Governments, and those who do get one would need to submit substantially more documentation for their purchases under new policies up for a vote this week. SANDAG has been working on new credit card rules since internal...

Former Navy SEAL Nathanael Roberti is on the run. The 38-year-old was born in Thailand to Baptist missionaries and moved to the U.S. as a child. In 2005, as a member of Navy SEAL Team 10, the Taliban opened fire on his team’s helicopter, leaving 11 of his friends dead.

Staff and residents at Veterans Village of San Diego said the nonprofit’s rehab center has not provided appropriate food and is struggling to keep the facilities clean and sanitary. They shared photos and videos of expired food, unhealthy meals, clogged toilets, dirty bathrooms and cockroaches inside the residential drug...

Five Vietnam veterans set out on a mission. In 1981, unhappy with the VA’s offerings, the group of men formed a new institution — Vietnam Veterans of San Diego — to tackle the trauma and addiction they had struggled with first-hand. “What we learned was that we...

A surge in COVID cases hitting San Diego County has public health experts worried that a rise in hospitalizations and deaths could be on the way. The Omicron variants BA.2 and BA.2.12.1, which are even more contagious than the variant that caused a winter surge in the U.S., are responsible for the recent increase in cases across the county — rivaling numbers seen in the Delta wave late last summer. For example, confirmed cases surpassed 1,500 per day for three days straight in late May.

A legal agreement in Northern California will impact the way two police departments in San Diego County handle drivers’ location data. Activists represented by the American Civil Liberties Union announced Wednesday a settlement in their lawsuit against the Marin County Sheriff for sharing data collected from automated license plate readers with out-of-state and federal agencies, in violation of two state laws.

San Diego County changed its public-facing COVID-19 vaccine policy to say its vaccine clinics will accept a broad range of documents to verify identity after an inewsource investigation found health staff turned away individuals who wanted a vaccine but could not provide a photo ID. In April, inewsource reported that...

With the summer months approaching, San Diego County officials are providing funding to expand community water safety training, especially in communities of color, where swimming education is often lacking, officials say. Drowning is the number one cause of unintentional deaths for children ages 1-4, and the second leading cause of...