Fourteen years ago, San Diego Unified School District’s approval of bond Measure Z seemed destined to upgrade plumbing at the School of Creative and Performing Arts in Paradise Hills.

Yet 14 years and two more school bonds later, plumbing issues continue at the magnet school. Our Jakob McWhinney reports the school faced a half dozen full or partial water shutoffs i...

On a crisp spring morning, three boys sat on a cinderblock wall in front of the School of Creative and Performing Arts in Paradise Hills. Staff and students at the magnet school, often referred to as SCPA, have been grappling with recurring plumbing failures. Those failures required porta-potties and bottled water to be shipped to the campus.

“It’s been temporaril...

In Chula Vista, everybody has a story about the mall.

Even Mayor John McCann frequently recalls dreaded childhood trips to the Sears department store that once anchored the 64-year-old Chula Vista Center on the city’s urbanizing west side.

McCann, who grew up in Chula Vista, says he remembers his mom saying after church on Sundays, “I need to pop into S...

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When Republican Rep. Darrell Issa

Wednesday, San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer officially proposed an overhaul of county government that would give her and other supervisors an additional term in office and shift some power to new oversight officials appointed by supervisors.

Flanked by a coalition of labor leaders, activists, environmentalists and other supporters, Law...