company from more than doubling the size of its existing granite quarry in rural Twin Oaks Valley, north of San Marcos.
In an effort to minimize the potential for a mosquito breeding ground and subsequent chances of malaria, the sand bar that separates the San Elijo Lagoon from the ocean will be permanently removed to circulate the stagnant water, the County Department of Health reported.
San Diego County sheriff's deputies Thursday arrested James McDonald, 26, on suspicion of 11 motel robberies in North County.
Dynomite Bouldering Gym. The home of climbing on the South Coast.
Hospital room rates in the Palomar-Pomerado Hospital District have been raised 7% to help pay for new construction and to bring the rates more in line with those paid by Medi-Cal and Medicare.
The North County Transit District has been awarded a $6.9-million grant for operating costs, construction and purchase of buses and equipment.
The House of Representatives has approved a federal bill that includes $12 million to help widen traffic-clogged California 78 from four to six lanes.
unincorporated area north of Oceanside, according to the San Diego Sheriff's Department.
San Diego County sheriff's deputies and Border Patrol agents Wednesday were searching for an alien smuggler who held a rookie Border Patrol agent at gunpoint early Tuesday, after disarming and handcuffing him.
The Paul Ecke family has dropped its bid to build a 50-acre floral trade center on unincorporated land between Encinitas and Carlsbad due to strong objections from officials of the two cities, family representatives said.