After San Diego passed a controversial camping ban last year, I started to follow how it was affecting where people who are unhoused are living. The ban has significantly lowered the number of people sleeping on streets downtown, but it hasn’t reduced homelessness. Every month in San Diego, more people lose housing than find it.

Expect upcoming road closures and construction near SeaWorld — a $123 million project to update a water transmission system near the theme park and through Mission Valley begins this summer. About 10 miles of water mains will be constructed between Interstate 805 and Sea World Drive, mainly on Friars...

It’s not just San Diego Unified — other school districts across the region are facing massive budget shortfalls, prompting them to eliminate hundreds of vacant positions and issue dozens of layoff notices. Each of San Diego County’s 10 largest districts is facing a deficit next year as schools...

A campus for high schoolers in San Diego will not shut down despite its struggles with finances and declining student enrollment. About 20% of enrollment at America’s Finest Charter School is made up of high school students who attend a separate location on Estrella Avenue in the Talmadge neighborhood. Last week, officials told the community during a forum that it was considering closing its high school campus after meeting with its authorizer, the San Diego Unified School District.

Waterfront property in San Diego can rent for thousands of dollars a month — and costs millions if you’re looking to buy. But on one small island, in the middle of the San Diego River, about 15 residents get their own slice of nature by paying what some call “island rent.” And here, the rent is due every day.

San Diego Port District commissioners dug in harder against a bill pending in the state Legislature that would require ethics and governance changes to the agency, saying they would support it so long as large sections were cut and several amendments included. At a special meeting Monday afternoon the commissioners...

Nearly two years after the city of San Diego changed longstanding policy to begin requiring community planning groups to pay for appeals, the groups’ leaders say the $1,000 fee has proven to be a barrier to fight against projects they oppose. The appeals process allows anyone to challenge approved...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided Monday about whether governments can enforce a public camping ban when there’s nowhere else for people to sleep. The court’s ruling, anticipated in late June, on a set of anti-camping laws in a small Oregon town is widely recognized as the most significant case about the rights of unhoused people in decades. It could have far-reaching implications nationwide — including in San Diego, where officials and police have used laws against public camping and blocking a sidewalk to clear tent encampments.

A new lawsuit has asked a Superior Court judge to block an Australian company from extracting lithium from brine deep beneath the earth’s surface around the Salton Sea until more research can be completed on the industry’s environmental impact. The lawsuit, filed last month by two advocacy groups,...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case that could decide whether it’s constitutional for governments to enforce a public camping ban when there’s nowhere else for people to sleep. The court’s decision could have far-reaching implications here in San Diego and throughout California,...

A lawsuit against the agency that runs the annual San Diego County Fair alleging bid rigging and other irregularities in an attempt to award a contract to run the fair’s midway has settled nearly three years after it was filed. The lawsuit from Talley Amusements, a company that provides...

The South Bay Union School District has yet to approve a plan to address its massive enrollment declines, and though officials have floated the idea of downsizing, any campus closures wouldn’t happen until at least 2025. But during a town hall this week to hear from the public, frustrated...

The Port of San Diego spent as much as $741,000 in legal costs and a severance payout to get rid of its top executive last year — and has never publicly explained why the agency ushered him out the door. Records that inewsource obtained show port officials authorized payment...

It was 9:55 p.m. when Mandy made the first call to 9-1-1. Peering between a few inches of space between the steel beams of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, she could see a man in his 30’s, cradling his broken arm. “His arm was just kind of dangling,” said Mandy,...

The U.S. Marine Corps has closed a landfill at Camp Pendleton indefinitely pending repairs in response to a cease and desist order from water regulators, who cited years of environmental violations and contamination. Since early 2000, the Las Pulgas Landfill has faced multiple hurdles and violations while attempting to expand...

San Diego Unified employees and their supporters called on district board members to rescind layoff notices and find alternative budget solutions Tuesday. Over 100 teachers, staff members and students rallied outside of the district’s board meeting in response to its decision to lay off hundreds of employees as it faces massive budget shortfalls in the coming years.

It began, as these things often do, in the quiet early morning hours of the day. The rain was light at first, but steady. A gauge near the National City Fire Department at East D Avenue between 15th and 16th Street measured less than a half-inch between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m.

School districts in southern San Diego County are calling on government officials to urgently address sewage pollution in the Tijuana River. More than 100 billion gallons of toxic waste, including untreated sewage, from Mexico have flowed through the Tijuana River Valley to San Diego’s coast over the last five years, a new report by San Diego State University researchers found. The pollution has cut off access for predominantly Latino beach communities — the main stretch of Imperial Beach, for example, has been closed for more than two years.

A monthslong land dispute between refugee farmers who cultivated plots at New Roots Community Farm in City Heights and the community nonprofit managing the land has escalated to several lawsuits. For Fatima Abdelrahman, a refugee farmer who has been barred from entering the farm since January, the escalation comes with...