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Here are the active wildfires by county.

A physical fight in an elevator was the focus of Wednesday’s Rancho Santa Fe School District special meeting. It wasn’t a scuffle between students but rather involved a board member.

Defense attorneys for Larry Millete say his previous representation wasn’t just inadequate, it was criminal. That was part of a lengthy motion filed in a successful effort to get his murder trial pushed back to July 7, 2025.

A Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton who was reported missing in August was seen on base and therefore “no longer considered a missing person,” base officials said Wednesday.

“I couldn’t hold it together it was very emotional, because all you could see were two eyes peaking out with a breathing tube in and he was covered in gauze.”

The action in front of the supervisors on Wednesday will present several options to the board. The body can request additional fire suppression technical reports and/or include new disclosure requirements to make any new battery energy storage systems go “above and beyond” current code requirements.

UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography will receive a $10 million grant over four years to study how climate change is impacting the way marine animals’ brains change in warming oceans, school officials said.

The San Diego community is coming together with events, memorials and more to observe the 23nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.

For the first time since 1969 there is a new name alone atop the Padres’ all-time home run list. Manny Machado is the club’s home run king. In the sixth inning of Tuesday’s 7-3 win in Seattle Machado went to deep center field off Mariners pitcher George Kirby. The two-run homer was his 26th of the season and 164th...

San Diego police Officer Zach Martinez was in critical condition after a crash in Clairemont that killed his partner. In an interview conducted by the San Diego Police Department and distributed to local media, his mom described seeing her son for the first time since the accident. NBC 7’s Todd Strain reports.

Avigail Silva, 17, who was born with cerebral palsy and suffered a brain injury she wouldn’t survive last Thursday, was later taken to UC SanDiego Medical Center.