Teachers and staff at a Chula Vista elementary school voiced alarm about a teacher’s behavior with developmentally disabled children for months before the district conducted an investigation. The...

The agency responsible for the California coast is thinking how it can regain the favor of lawmakers.

More services are coming online in South County, but even more are needed.  

Months of scandal at Grossmont Union gave birth to a community-led effort to recall one of the district’s board members. Faced with a Monday deadline, organizers are doubtful they’ll have enough...

Encinitas Councilmember Luke Shaffer is now facing two misdemeanors instead of a felony and two misdemeanors, after a judge reduced a felony assault charge and tossed out another misdemeanor. 

Two deputy chief operating officers are leaving City Hall but city officials won’t say why. 

There’s a debate over whether the city of San Diego should or could build a smaller sewage-to-drinking water recycling project than originally planned. If fully built out, the project costs […]

Two deputy chief operating officers are leaving City Hall but city officials won’t say why. 

Voice of San Diego discovered SDPD lowered its rape kit testing standards. After the news broke, heads rolled.

Implementing Proposition 36 is costing county government tens of millions of dollars at a time of major budget uncertainty. 

More funding for homelessness services is a top priority. 

County officials last year projected at least a $58 million annual budget hit if statewide criminal justice reform measure Proposition 36 passed. Now that the initiative that cracked down on […]

Five North County mayors argue that without subsidies from the state, it’s nearly impossible to produce the level of affordable housing the state demands. 

East County is building its own water recycling project and wants San Diego to treat it like its own.  

Olivewood Gardens, a provider of fresh food and nutritional programs in one of the county’s most underserved communities, will take over management of the embattled Tijuana River Valley Community...

The county sheriff’s office reports that the number of people in its jails has swelled since the state initiative seeking to address repeat drug and theft offenders took effect in December. 

Olivewood Gardens, a provider of fresh food and nutritional programs in one of the county’s most underserved communities, will take over management of the embattled Tijuana River Valley Community...

A crowd of residents and environmental activists erupted in cheers Tuesday evening at National City Hall when City Councilmembers voted unanimously to reject a controversial biofuels rail depot on...

San Diego Unified implemented its much-touted Vision 2020 plan, which sought in part to keep kids in their neighborhood schools, nearly a decade and a half ago. Neighborhood participation rates...

A dozen years ago, then-Voice of San Diego reporter Liam Dillon dug into a study that spotlighted consistent emergency response delays in southeastern San Diego.  The study was collecting dust. […]