Environment

Brush and overgrown vegetation have long created fire risks in San Diego and at all times of the year, but the situation has been exacerbated as the city grapples with a large, unsheltered homeless population, some of whom use the canyons as their home. Read More »

Noxious fumes enveloped an SDSU building during the roof repairs. Officials closed the building in March and it may not fully reopen for two years. Read More »

President de la Torre announced she had made an executive decision to delay plans to reoccupy the building, which was scheduled for April 9. Read More »

Complaints led the university to close the Professional Studies and Fine Arts building last month, six weeks after it was notified of the problems. Read More »

Students and professors who occupied the building said the university did a poor job of notifying them about the odors. Read More »

Methane levels at a multimillion-dollar Otay Ranch housing project dropped by more than 50 percent during a recent six-month period, according to a new report, but the source of the gas has yet to be found. Read More »

Some of San Diego County’s most polluted neighborhoods could get 25 new air quality monitoring stations by the end of the year. Read More »

San Diego County has warned and cited a developer four times since 2014 over building violations in a Lake San Marcos community of more than 2,000 homes. So far, the county has taken no action to impose fines that could reach more than half a million dollars. Nearby residents are frustrated with the county for not doing more to make ... Read More »

Ana Hayes moved into her home at the Starlight Mobile Home Park in El Cajon in 1969. It’s where she raised her three children, and it’s where she and her husband still live. Her home sits above a toxic groundwater plume that residents first learned about in October 2016, though state officials and the company responsible for the contamination knew ... Read More »

People who bought new homes in Otay Ranch’s Village of Escaya can start moving in Friday — later than planned but after the developer took steps to address methane found at the site. The 450-acre, multimillion-dollar project in eastern Chula Vista stalled late last year when the Otay Water District wouldn’t provide meters for the homes until issues surrounding methane ... Read More »