The daytime high in San Diego hit 83 degrees on Monday, the 17th straight day that the high was 80 or above, says the National Weather Service says. And the same is likely to happen on Tuesday. A high pressure system and unusually warm ocean temperatures are fueling the hot stretch, and there’s little relief […]
South Bay cities are preparing to go head-to-head with the federal government this week in a legal battle that could force the Trump administration to plug sewage spilling from Tijuana into San Diego. Local officials filed the lawsuit in March after demanding for more than a year that federal infrastructure along the border be beefed […]
A lawsuit in California’s Imperial Valley could determine who controls the single largest share of Colorado River water in the West — a few hundred landowning farmers, or the elected five-member board of the Imperial Irrigation District. But a newly obtained document shows that the farmer who filed the lawsuit, Mike Abatti, was willing to sidestep that explosive legal […]
Cooler, calmer weather is helping firefighters get a handle on battling the largest wildfires burning across California and preventing new blazes from getting out of control. Temperatures are cooling slightly, and humidity is inching upward due to a weakened high-pressure system that forecasters say will persist through Tuesday.
San Diego’s Daytime High Hits 80-or-Above Range for the 17th Straight Day
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Gary RobbinsThe daytime high in San Diego hit 83 degrees on Monday, the 17th straight day that the high was 80 or above, says the National Weather Service says. And the same is likely to happen on Tuesday. A high pressure system and unusually warm ocean temperatures are fueling the hot stretch, and there’s little relief […]
Imperial Beach, Federal Government to Face-off in Court Over Tijuana Sewage Pollution
/in San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Joshua Emerson SmithSouth Bay cities are preparing to go head-to-head with the federal government this week in a legal battle that could force the Trump administration to plug sewage spilling from Tijuana into San Diego. Local officials filed the lawsuit in March after demanding for more than a year that federal infrastructure along the border be beefed […]
California Farm Baron Offered To Drop Water Lawsuit — If His Family Got A Special Exemption
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Palm Springs Desert Sunby Sammy RothA lawsuit in California’s Imperial Valley could determine who controls the single largest share of Colorado River water in the West — a few hundred landowning farmers, or the elected five-member board of the Imperial Irrigation District. But a newly obtained document shows that the farmer who filed the lawsuit, Mike Abatti, was willing to sidestep that explosive legal […]
Break in the Weather Helps California Firefighters Battle Massive Blazes Across State
/in San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Los Angeles Timesby Tony BarbosaCooler, calmer weather is helping firefighters get a handle on battling the largest wildfires burning across California and preventing new blazes from getting out of control. Temperatures are cooling slightly, and humidity is inching upward due to a weakened high-pressure system that forecasters say will persist through Tuesday.