Del Mar council received an update on the city’s undergrounding work; Stratford Court South is nearly finished and financing returns to the March agenda.

Photos show weapons, thousands of rounds and drugs seized after a Feb. 5 search warrant tied to an October Oak Park burglary.

A Santee car-shop owner was sentenced to 23 years after an El Cajon jury convicted him of molesting two girls. A civil court previously awarded one victim more than $1.54 million.

A La Mesa man was sentenced to eight years after a wrong-way DUI crash on Broadway in Lemon Grove that killed a front-seat passenger and injured others.

UC San Diego plans a 6,000‑bed Pepper Canyon East village to ease record enrollment and housing waitlists, with the first phase and financing to be finalized over the next year.

The second annual Tijuana con Olor a Café takes over Avenida Revolución Feb. 21–22 with a 7,000‑cup target; proceeds will support the Castro‑Limón pediatric cancer foundation.

Lakeshore Villa, a 126-unit seniors affordable community in San Carlos, sold for $47M. The buyer vows to invest and keep the building affordable.

San Diego’s Element Biosciences unveiled VITARI, a benchtop sequencer it says can deliver a whole genome for about $100. The launch comes as patent and antitrust fights with Illumina play out in federal court.

Clifford "Rip" Rippetoe will retire this year as the San Diego Convention Center prepares to tap hotel-tax funds for repairs and an eventual expansion.

Consular and Tijuana water officials met this week to review sanitation projects aimed at curbing sewage flows into the Tijuana River and improving coastal water quality. The review focused on pipelines, pump stations and treatment upgrades.

Harland Brewing plans a 2,000-square-foot restaurant and taproom at Mission Bay Golf Course with a golf-facing patio and full food program.

A 35-year-old man was found unresponsive in a San Diego Central Jail cell and later died at a hospital; sheriff's homicide investigators and the Medical Examiner are probing the case.

A Caltrans worker pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run and will surrender to a one-year work-furlough program after a Mission Hills pedestrian was killed.