Late last month, a destructive citrus disease was detected for the first time in San Bernardino County. The quarantine area for the economically devastating citrus greening disease has been expanding in an attempt to keep it from reaching the commercial groves in the Southern San Joaquin Valley. According to the California Department of Food and […]

A new pilot program from San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) will help integrate renewable energy in California’s power grid. SDG&E installed a flow battery system at the Miguel substation in Bonita to store excess energy from solar production that can be used later when needed. The installation makes the California Independent System Operator (ISO), […]

According to statistics released last month by Feeding San Diego, one out of every eight San Diegans is struggling with hunger. Unfortunately, this issue is most severe among children in San Diego County, where one in six children struggle with hunger. Feeding San Diego is an organization that is on a mission to solve hunger […]

Fox & Hounds By: Annette Levi and Serhat Asci While urban and rural California may be miles apart geographically and politically, they could not be more interdependent economically. That’s what we found with a recent research project that determined nearly $3-billion of Southern California’s urban economy is directly linked to the state’s strawberry farming operations. […]

A bizarre story is coming out of San Diego County, where apparently, a gas station attendant refused to serve Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers a couple weeks ago. According to the Blue Lives Matter website, five officers stopped at a Shell station on San Ysidro Blvd. near Interstate 5 to fill up when the […]

Scientists predict that coastal communities in the United States could eventually experience flooding from higher tides as glaciers continue to melt. It is estimated that the sea level will increase about one to four feet by the end of the century. According to scientists, sea level rise is underway in some seaside neighborhoods and there […]

According to Department of Homeland Security documents, San Diego has been identified as a “high priority” area for building the border wall between the United States and Mexico. The San Diego Union-Tribune writes, The report also shows Tucson, El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley, which encompasses the cities of Weslaco, McAllen, Rio Grande City […]

Two California politicians have introduced bills that are meant to stop the construction of the border wall. California State Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) have introduced Senate Bill 30 (SB 30) and Assembly Bill 946 (AB 946), which is called the Resist the Wall Act, in response to the […]