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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 »

A weekly roundup for June 11 - June 15, including an audit that found two former San Ysidro school administrators may have engaged in financial fraud. Read More »

When Tau Baraka was growing up, southeastern San Diego was already a pretty diverse community. Baraka, now 47 and the owner of Imperial Barbershop in Encanto, said that back then the area was primarily white, African-American and Hispanic. “But as the years start progressing, you start seeing a big change in that, especially with the Filipino population here,” Baraka said. ... Read More »

inewsource journalists were honored with 19 awards Tuesday night from the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Read More »

A missing signature on a grant application means San Diego Unified has lost its chance to receive $750,000 in federal funding to help homeless students. Read More »

A roundup of everything we worked on this week, including San Diego Christian College's suspension and a drop in methane levels at the Village of Escaya. Read More »

Two competing ballot measures to decide the future of 166 acres of city-owned Mission Valley land attracted a lot of campaign dollars. Read More »

Camelle Sison Understanding how clean or hazardous your air is can protect your health because local air quality has an impact on how you live and breathe. A key tool in measuring our air is the Air Quality Index, or AQI by the EPA. The AQI reports daily air quality for four major air pollutants regulated by the Clean Air ... Read More »

The November general election is three months away, but fundraising and campaign spending are picking up in San Diego’s City Council races. Read More »

The tallying of votes in two close San Diego City Council races finished Monday night, with Councilwoman Cole coming in second place by six votes. Read More »

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inewsource collected 13 awards this week from the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists as part of its annual contest, including seven first-place plaques. Read More »

The number of high school seniors taking the ACT exam in San Diego has increased more than 25 percent since 2012. Find out how your school has performed. Read More »

Over the past three decades, the Sweetwater Union High School District has used at least $46 million in special taxes paid by property owners in the Eastlake neighborhood to fund projects in other parts of Chula Vista. Read More »

Vice President Mike Pence is visiting Calexico in Imperial County today to inspect efforts to revamp and expand the U.S.-Mexico border wall. His visit, while almost 100 miles away, coincides with the caravan arrival over the weekend of some 200 would-be asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is replacing roughly two miles of ... Read More »

A roundup of everything we worked on this week. Read More »

Political action committees and other outside organizations are spending heavily in the San Diego City Council races that will be decided Nov. 6, especially in Republican incumbent Lorie Zapf’s District 2. That race could potentially change the balance of power on the council. Zapf is facing a strong challenge from Democrat Jen Campbell to represent the coastal district that includes ... Read More »