Sheriff Bill Gore said gun shops provide a “valuable public service” during the coronavirus pandemic and will be allowed to remain open, even though they are not included in the state government’s list of “essential businesses.”

In response to a “worst case scenario,” San Diego County leaders said there are not enough ventilators for every intensive care unit hospital bed in the region if a surge of patients infected with the new coronavirus needed treatment.

County health officials tell NBC 7 Investigates that there are 300 mechanical ventilators available for use if needed as of Monday, March 23.

More than 111,000 people have been tested for the virus in the 50 states and Washington D.C. Of those, 12,377 tested positive. The numbers do not show whether other factors, such as incomplete or defective test kits, contributed to the relatively low number of positive test results.

Hospitals in San Diego County don’t have anywhere near the number of beds needed to care for potential coronavirus patients should the virus infection rate reach projected numbers.

San Diego County health officials said Thursday they are working to make testing kits for the new coronavirus more readily available after announcing five new cases, bringing the number to seven, and a “very likely” risk of spread to the community. San Diego County Public Health officials said at a press conference they are exploring al...

A high-end, five-star restaurant in University City is being sued for negligence by a family claiming their then 3-year-old girl was scalded by hot water when two servers bumped into each other. The incident happened June 8, 2019, at the Din Tai Fung Taiwanese Restaurant on La Jolla Village Drive when the toddler was dining with her mother, Soo Yeo...

In addition to spending millions of dollars on a now vacant high-rise in downtown San Diego, the city will also spend thousands more to fight legal claims from employees who allege the city exposed them to high levels of asbestos without warning.

San Diego county supervisors approved a $400,000 payment to the adoptive parents of a foster child who were not informed of their child’s sexually inappropriate behavior. That troublesome behavior was allegedly caused by sexual and physical abuse inflicted on the boy by his former foster parent.

The family of a mentally-ill man armed with a shovel who was shot and killed by San Diego Police Officers in August 2019 have filed a legal claim with the city of San Diego. Police officers Jose Mendez and Brad Keyes were called to a home on Adelaide Avenue on Aug. 24, 2019, after a woman called 911 to request…

A Camp Pendleton Marine whose disappearance prompted a nationwide search has been court martialed after investigators discovered he purchased a cache of weapons and ammunitions to allegedly hunt human traffickers along the U.S. and Mexico border.

Prosecutors filed new criminal charges Monday against a North County man accused of impersonating a doctor to sexually assault four women at Del Mar Cosmetic Contouring.

A controversial start-up company that compiles billions of photos for facial recognition technology was tested, then discontinued in San Diego among concerns about mass surveillance and privacy.