Investigations

Attorneys for the city of San Diego hope to keep police body-cam footage confidential that was recorded during a mental-health call at which officers declined to detain an 18-year-old YouTube star who went on to kill a mother and her 12-year-old daughter in a fiery wrong-way crash on Interstate 805.

NBC 7 talks to the son of the man who founded San Diego’s Juneteenth Holiday celebration as well as a local author on what the holiday means to them.

Some serious deja vu is playing out on Dalbergia Street in Barrio Logan, and not the good kind. The kind that endangers human lives, private property, and wastes public resources. The sun was still down Wednesday morning when 63 San Diego firefighters worked to snuff out a scorching inferno inside an abandoned building — a building they knew ...

In a groundbreaking ruling, the majority of Supreme Court Justices ruled on Thursday that the Trump Administration’s move to end the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals Act, better known as DACA, was not passed with proper explanation and therefore was not constitutional.

As state and national experts are expecting a spike in COVID-19 cases due to businesses reopening and large-scale demonstrations, the county of San Diego’s testing apparatus grinded to a halt last week after a machine that runs the tests broke down. The malfunction created a major backlog in the county’s testing process, delaying test results for t...

Local city governments in those communities are fighting to stay fiscally afloat as budgetary holes caused by the novel coronavirus threaten to sink them

Data shows that police use force on Black residents per 1,000 people. For White residents, however, that number is just over 9 out of 1,000 people while Hispanics are slightly higher with nearly 14 out of 1,000.

A La Mesa Police Officer detained a young Black man as he was waiting outside of his friend’s apartment. A physical altercation ensued and the man, Amaurie Johnson, was arrested for battery on a police officer. The video of his arrest went viral and transformed the small city of La Mesa into the epicenter for protests of police brutality...

Ridership on San Diego’s Public Transit System is way down since COVID-19 rode into the county. Meanwhile, funding is way up for the local transit agency, and that is due to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

In the fight against the novel coronavirus, nursing homes have been considered a battleground that can’t be ignored. Inside, nursing home staff and administrators struggle to keep elderly residents — those most vulnerable to large outbreaks — safe. Outside, the loved ones of residents struggle to get accurate information from operators of long-term...

Amid public backlash over its response to the May 30 demonstrations, the city of La Mesa’s police department has released its timeline depicting the events that unfolded during San Diego’s most violent and chaotic protest.

As the nation grapples with questions surrounding law enforcement’s use of deadly force, the family of a man who was shot and killed by San Diego Police earlier this year is now suing the city and the officers involved, demanding answers about what really happened that day.

From Ebola Virus to Syphilis, to many other communicable diseases, contact tracing has been a vital tool in stopping a virus’ spread and raising public awareness. Coronavirus is no different. States and municipal governments, including San Diego County, are hiring thousands of people to fill the roles as contact tracers. Minus a vaccine for COVID-1...