South Bay

San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) cut the ribbon Friday on its new all-electric bus route through San Diego County’s South Bay communities. Twelve new electric buses will transport upwards of 5,000 people every day on the new Rapid Route 227 between the Otay Mesa Port of Entry and Imperial Beach.

MTS is premiering new all-electric bus routes across San Diego County. NBC 7’s Joe Little explains why this is good for people living and sleeping near the bus line.

The fire did spread to the home but most of the damage was in the garage because of all the couples’ belongings stored from floor-to-ceiling in there.

A fire quickly moved through a Chula Vista home Friday morning and injured two people, including a firefighter with the Chula Vista Fire Department. NBC 7’s Shandel Menezes reports on Sept. 8, 2023.

A nonprofit that’s been providing services to the South Bay’s unhoused community for five years may be shutting its doors permanently soon unless it receives adequate support.

Community Through Hope says it is struggling to get the funds it needs to help the growing homeless population in the South Bay. NBC 7’s Kelvin Henry reports on Sept. 2, 2023.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene Sunday when a large group of teens rampaged through the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance.

On top of the thousands of residents impacted, hundreds of businesses would need to shut down operations due to unsafe handling conditions, a spokesperson for the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency.

Owners and operators were told to stop operations, reports NBC 7’s Dana Williams.

The family of 24-year-old Kai Torres Bronson, who died trying to help hikers who were stranded without water in sweltering temperatures in remote East County last weekend, spoke on Saturday for the first time in his memory.

Bronson’s family want others to learn from this and take steps to avoid falling ill in extreme heat.

Besides the affordable housing development at Palm Avenue, the funds are also earmarked for converting an alleyway into a safer corridor for pedestrians and bikes and establishing rent-to-own opportunities for residents in San Ysidro.

A fire broke out in a four-unit apartment building in South Bay Saturday morning, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.

The water contact closure has been downgraded to an advisory for the Silver Strand State Beach at the Imperial Beach Shoreline, North End and Avenida Lunar, county health officials said Tuesday.

In 2022, the South Bay region received $300 million in federal funding to begin an expansion project to solve the cross-border pollution problem. Now that half of the federal money is going towards repairing the existing plant, it could take years before the expansion of the plant happens.

Whether you’re a San Diegan staying in town or just visiting, here’s a list of places to enjoy fireworks and parades during this year’s Fourth of July weekend.

South Bay leaders will Friday gather to announce a new study intended to identify the academic programming needed to bring a four-year university to Chula Vista.

Imperial Beach urgently needs federal funding to put an end to the Tijuana River’s ongoing sewage spill that’s kept portions of the city’s beaches closed, Mayor Paloma Aguirre wrote in a letter to the White House.

A celebration was held in the South Bay on Friday to mark the official end of the ban, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little.

A celebration was held in the South Bay on Friday to mark the official end of a ban that prohibited lowrider cruising for more than 30 years in National City.