2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (701+ words) CARLSBAD — The city of Carlsbad declared a local emergency Sept. 9 to expedite stabilization of an eroding coastal bluff supporting southbound Carlsbad Boulevard ahead of potential strong El Niño conditions this fall and winter. The declaration followed a geotechnical report received…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (475+ words) DEL MAR — The Del Mar City Council reviewed the city’s storm preparations with staff Tuesday evening as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts strong El Niño conditions this fall and winter. Assistant City Manager Clem Brown briefed council members…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (314+ words) CARLSBAD – After hearing concerns from neighbors, the Carlsbad Unified School District has revised its Pacific Rim Elementary School improvement plans to relocate a proposed battery energy storage system, or BESS. Rob Nye, assistant superintendent for business services at CUSD, told…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (690+ words) OCEANSIDE — The city is preparing for what climate scientists predict will be a very strong El Niño during the fall and winter storm season. City departments have begun developing a comprehensive storm response plan that includes clearing drainage infrastructure and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (317+ words) I have spent my career answering calls in Oceanside, and I want to respond to the recent coverage of Measure S. A story by inewsource, “Sales hike eyed for crumbling Oceanside pier, other needs,” quoted people who said they felt blindsided....

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (466+ words) I do not support the Golden Pacific Powerlink, and I will do everything in my power to stop it. Earlier this year, the state announced plans for a 500 kilovolt transmission line that would run from the Imperial Valley across our…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (502+ words) San Diego’s professional sports teams keep finding their way north. For the third time in recent years, a professional team is leaving Pechanga Arena for North County. The San Diego Seals announced Friday that they will play their home games…...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago   (381+ words) It’s been 33 years since I first sat around a table with Rusty Preisendorfer, Debbie Beacham, Ignacio Felix, Fred Borelli, Sam Armstrong and John Otterson to plan a surfing contest benefiting cancer research through Scripps Institution and Moores Cancer Center. Thirty-three…...

4+ week, 7+ hour ago   (528+ words) Inglenook’s history dates to 1879, when Finnish sea captain Gustave Niebaum began assembling what would become an 1,100-acre estate on Napa Valley’s Rutherford Bench. Nearly a century later, in 1975, Francis and Eleanor Coppola purchased a portion of the former Inglenook property…...