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Smoke is drifting to cities miles away from where five major wildfires are burning in Los Angeles County, prompting several air quality alerts, but will it reach San Diego County?

Workers at the Animal and Bird Hospital of Del Mar organized a road trip to help victims of the LA Wildfires with donations for their pets.

Hundreds of donations for the victims of the Los Angeles fires have poured in at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at their location in Encinitas. ICA North held a donation drive on Saturday to help collect supplies, where dozens of volunteers stepped up to help organize the donations.

More than 70 firefighters from Mexico were welcomed by Gov. Gavin Newsom at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday, offering aid in the county’s fight against some the state’s worst fires in history.

Two suspects were jailed this week in connection with a shooting that left a young man dead last summer in a neighborhood near Mount Miguel High School, authorities reported Wednesday.

Big trouble can result when firefighting aircraft share the small air space above wildfires.

While the state faced shortfalls the last two years, Gov. Gavin Newsom says there is a small surplus this budget cycle. NBC 7’s Joey Safchik breaks down some of the preliminary ideas for how to spend it.

As wildfires tear through Los Angeles, the images of devastation are all too familiar to many across San Diego County, bringing back memories of destructive blazes in the past – and the long, difficult road to rebuild.

Some students in the San Diego Unified School District may have had their contact information and even social security numbers compromised in a data breach that appeared to be impacting schools nationwide, the district said Friday.

With three wildfires burning around their Burbank community, the Burbank couple left before their were forced.

Macy’s has announced it is closing 66 stores nationwide, including two in San Diego County, among nine stores in California.

Department store retailer Kohl’s says they’ll close 27 underperforming stores and a fulfillment center by April, including two in San Diego County and one in Los Angeles County.

Survivors of the West and Cedar fires share their experience of loss and recovery as destructive fires continue burning across Los Angeles County, displacing thousands of people.

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