Santee has been added to California’s Fire Risk Reduction Community List. The designation could help residents win insurance credits and priority wildfire grant funding.

A Northern California burger chain is moving into the former Garden Kitchen space in Rolando and plans to sell $1.99 smash burgers near SDSU this fall or winter.

A man in his 30s was shot and killed Wednesday in Valencia Park. Homicide detectives are investigating; police say there is no ongoing threat.

El Cajon’s council voted 4–1 to forgo roughly $5.3 million in state encampment funding, citing housing‑first restrictions and a preference for locally controlled shelter and outreach. The choice leaves local contracts as the immediate path to expanded services.

A multiagency FBI‑led sweep in San Diego arrested 28 people tied to the Crips; prosecutors linked the operation to a crack‑cocaine street market in related filings.

A parole panel denied the early release of Kenneth Bogard, convicted in a string of Pacific Beach assaults in the early 1990s. Prosecutors said he remains an unacceptable risk and won't be reconsidered for at least three years.

San Diego law enforcement will accept unwanted guns in Encinitas Saturday; anonymous turn‑ins earn gift cards and free trigger locks.

A San Diego jury split on a murder charge in the National City DUI that killed Tina Smith; jurors convicted the driver on other counts while leaving the murder charge unresolved.

La Jolla teams identified liver and tumor cholesterol pathways that point to new therapies, including a CTSA inhibitor that already cleared Phase 1 safety testing.

A person was ejected and killed in a two-vehicle crash on southbound I-5 at Washington Street early Wednesday, prompting a full southbound shutdown near Mission Hills.

San Diego County posted an advisory for Avenida de la Playa at La Jolla Shores after water testing flagged elevated bacteria levels. The advisory is in effect pending follow-up sampling.

The county medical examiner identified 12 people killed in recent crashes across San Diego County — from an Encinitas teen to motorcyclists and an e‑bike rider. The names and brief case notes were published this week.

A Temecula martial-arts instructor accused of abusing students had his preliminary hearing vacated; a felony settlement conference is now set for Sept. 23. The sheriff’s office says the probe is ongoing.