Hundreds packed La Jolla Shores as the sun lined up perfectly with Scripps Pier's back pillars, a twice-yearly quirk of Earth's tilt.

A 25-year-old grad student named a snake after Wil Myers. His team tracks red diamonds several times a week to see how hikers affect them.

The Coastal Commission's unanimous vote clears San Diego to chase grants for a 500-acre Mission Bay makeover decades in the making.