Santee

The 2001 Santana High School shooter, who killed two students and wounded more than a dozen other victims at the Santee campus, is due for a parole hearing next month and prosecutors made a public call Wednesday for victims of the shooting to participate in the upcoming hearing.

San Diego County’s newest Trader Joe’s location opens to the public on Thursday, located at 9680 Mission Gorge Rd. Santee, CA 92071, where the Best Buy used to be.

Two elderly adults were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a Santee senior living home on Tuesday morning, following a similar incident at the same facility earlier this year, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.

NBC 7’s Jackie Crea spoke to neighbors about the tragedy.

In Santee, the LGBTQ community celebrated its 3rd Annual “Pride Walk & Festival” on Saturday, making one year since the controversy over a transgender woman’s use of the Santee YMCA’s women’s locker room. It sparked a political battle inside Santee’s City Council chambers. Christynne Wood, the transgender woman at the center of the controversy, spoke at the Pride event,...

Authorities Monday publicly identified an infant who died two weeks ago after being left in a parked SUV outside her family’s eastern San Diego County home for about nine hours.

It’s been a year since the controversy over a transgender woman’s use of the Santee YMCA’s women’s locker room. NBC 7’s Dita Quinones takes a look at how far the city of Santee has come since that heated debate.

The San Diego Sheriff’s Department said deputies responded to a 911 call on June 13 and found a baby girl unresponsive in an SUV outside of a home.

A raging fire at the billion-dollar drinking water treatment project near Santee Lakes halted construction and forced workers to evacuate on Wednesday before firefighters got a handle on the flames a couple of hours later.

The fire halted construction and forced workers to evacuate before firefighters got a handle on the flames a couple of hours later. NBC 7’s Jackie Crea has the latest on the damage and impact to the project.

Fire crews appear to be getting a handle on a fire at a water reclamation plant being built in Santee.

Crews battled a blaze that broke out Wednesday afternoon at a water treatment plant being built in Santee, fire officials said.

Work has been underway on a recycled water treatment project in Santee for about two years. In another two years, some East County residents will get their drinking water from the East County Advanced Water Purification program.

A billion-dollar recycled water project is under construction near Santee Lakes. NBC 7’s Brooke Martell has an update on who the program will benefit.

A San Diego federal judge granted a request Friday to unseal videos and other evidence related to the death of an inmate at the Las Colinas jail in Santee.

A SWAT standoff is underway at an apartment building in Santee after a man inside is not cooperating with deputies.

NBC 7’s Marianne Kushi has more details on the SWAT standoff in Santee.

Bomb-arson investigators are at the scene of a deadly fire at a mobile home park in Santee.

NBC 7’s Audra Stafford spoke to officials at the scene and has the latest details.

The Santee School District has been investigating a complaint that one student inappropriately touched another.