San Diego

May 23, 2025 at 2:08 a.m.

The kittens were taken to Helen Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe

Police body-worn camera footage shows Troy Smith, left, and his flight instructor after they made an early-morning emergency landing Sept. 26, 2024, in Oceanside. Smith later itted he had a brick of cocaine in his backpack. He was sentenced to federal prison Wednesday for two counts of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute. (U.S. District Court filing)

Retired Marine Corps officer caught with cocaine after Oceanside plane emergency sent to prison

May 21, 2025 at 3:23 p.m.

Troy Smith itted he had brick of cocaine last year during flight lesson

Cmdr. Chris Rose (c), Alexandria’s commanding officer, was among the sailors on the conning tower as the USS Alexandria pulled into Naval Base Point Loma on Thursday, May 15, 2025, in San Diego, CA. USS Alexandria returns to Naval Base Point Loma after a 7-month deployment in the Pacific. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Navy opens the curtain, a bit, to life aboard one of its San Diego-based submarines

By Gary Robbins

May 15, 2025 at 7:53 p.m.

The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Alexandria arrived home Thursday after a 217-day deployment.

Tents line a freeway over on J Street in downtown San Diego in 2023, the year the City Council ed its ban on encampments. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Newsom wants camping bans in every city. San Diego County already has them.

By Blake Nelson

May 12, 2025 at 7:37 p.m.

All 18 cities in the region have prohibitions against living in tents or vehicles.

A Del Mar lifeguard gathers debris such as lifejackets and gas cans as emergency responders worked Monday morning to secure the scene where a suspected smuggling panga overturned in the surf in Del Mar. Three people were confirmed dead and a missing 10-year-old girl is presumed dead. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

DHS calls for death penalty in Del Mar smuggling case — a steep escalation from prior sentences

May 10, 2025 at 10:17 a.m.

Attorney General Pam Bondi must decide whether to seek the death penalty against the two...

At Sharp Grossmont Hospital in 2021, a doctor updates his patient's medical chart. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Should doctors with addictions be allowed to get confidential treatment?

By Paul Sisson

May 5, 2025 at 12:34 p.m.

Legislators are considering a bill that would shield physicians seeking help from public scrutiny

Man, 23, fatally stabbed during break-in at Grant Hill home identified

April 9, 2025 at 3:51 p.m.

Joshua Cruz allegedly kicked in a front door to hurt his girlfriend inside a house...

Police and Sheriff’s investigators over look a crime scene where a man was shot by police on Friday, April 4, 2025 in the Ft Stockton area of Southeast San Diego on K street between 31st and 32nd street 2025. (Sandy Huffaker / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego police shoot, kill man who had BB gun in Stockton neighborhood standoff

By Christian Martinez

April 5, 2025 at 1:19 p.m.

Authorities said the man pointed what appeared to be a gun at officers, prompting six...

At a small beach area in Point Loma, Erica Cole and her brother, Tyson Gray, hold a photo of their mother, who ed away back in 2023 due to alleged medical malpractice. The beach is special because not far from the area, the two boarded a friend’s boat to head out to sea past Cabrillo point to scatter some of their mother’s ashes out at sea. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

‘We watched her suffer and begged for answers, but none came’: San Diego woman advocates for bill after mother’s death

By Paul Sisson

April 4, 2025 at 6:13 a.m.

A San Diego woman shares harrowing details of her mother’s death in of pain...

Spring Valley plumber ordered to pay $1 million for workers’ comp fraud

April 2, 2025 at 4:31 p.m.

Daniela Birdwell, who owns GPS Plumbing, pleaded guilty to defrauding the workers' compensation fund of...

Workers installed a retaining wall to protect train tracks from a landslide in San Clemente, CA, was done a few months ago following a slide in January 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County /SCNG)

More work planned for San Clemente’s railroad link with San Diego

April 3, 2025 at 11:37 a.m.

Transit agency to add sand and revetment rock to protect tracks from eroding beaches.

Where to find Easter egg hunts all over San Diego County–dozens are free

April 16, 2025 at 5:34 p.m.

A 2025 guide to Easter egg hunts across San Diego County from Imperial Beach to...

The USS Nimitz shown here in an earlier visit to San Diego. Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Famed carrier USS Nimitz visits San Diego before final deployment

By Gary Robbins

March 25, 2025 at 5:04 p.m.

The nuclear-powered flat-top spent 11 of its 50 years operating out of North Island.

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park on Thursday, March 7, 2024 in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California. (Ana Ramirez / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Community events in San Diego County: From Desert BioBlitz to Garden Walking Tour

March 21, 2025 at 12:02 p.m.

Sneak peek at San Diego community events street fairs, festivals, concerts, performances, art shows,...

A Homeland Security Investigations agent handcuffs a man. (Orange County file photo)

Federal operation takes down alleged Escondido drug ring

March 18, 2025 at 3:57 p.m.

The operation initially sparked fear among some in community that federal agents were conducting immigration...

Nonprofits receive $68,000 in grants from church foundation

March 14, 2025 at 9:26 a.m.

Kingdom Builder Foundation gives $68,000 to seven area nonprofits for mission work

San Diego is home to one of the largest Coast Guard stations on the West Coast. (Gary Robbins/San Diego Union-Tribune)

Coast Guard rescues migrants from drifting vessel 60 miles off San Diego coast

March 12, 2025 at 4:45 p.m.

The boat was found Tuesday morning, and migrants were hoisted aboard a Coast Guard helicopter...

An aerial view of the Del Mar Fairgrounds property, as pictured on Jan. 14, 2020. (John Gibbins / U-T file)

Fairgrounds to resume affordable housing negotiations with Del Mar

March 12, 2025 at 9:56 a.m.

Dispute over train tunnel route settled by recent SANDAG decision on possible routes

The California Highway Patrol impounded 30 motorcycles after riders allegedly performed stunts and blocked traffic on San Diego County freeways Saturday. (California Highway Patrol)

30 motorcyclists have bikes impounded following freeway stunt rides

March 11, 2025 at 2:16 p.m.

The group did tricks and blocked traffic from Lincoln Park to Solana Beach Saturday

A Coaster train heads south along the Del Mar bluffs on Tuesday, March 6, 2025. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Train tracks likely to stay on Del Mar bluffs for decades even if another route is added

March 10, 2025 at 5:19 p.m.

Current route could remain long after realignment is completed, transit official says

Gary Snavely (Courtesy San Diego SAFE Task Force)

Release of sexually violent predator delayed after Julian housing offer rescinded

By Christian Martinez

March 8, 2025 at 8:31 a.m.

A judge on Friday denied Gary Snavely's request to be released without a fixed residence

Tyler Yates. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)

San Diego inmate accused of killing accomplice in previous prison yard slaying

March 7, 2025 at 3:05 p.m.

Tyler Yates is accused of killing Jake Kennedy after the two were already accused of...

A 35-foot boat washed ashore in San Clemente on March 19, 2022. No one was found aboard the abandoned vessel. (Photo by Laylan Connelly/SCNG)

Nighttime smuggling attempt stopped after shots disable panga engine

March 7, 2025 at 10:09 a.m.

Maritime agents shot and disabled the engine when the panga crew refused to stop Tuesday...

Navy personnel along with derrick crane operators work on Feb. 15 at the site just off Shelter Island where a Navy jet, an EA-18G Growler, crashed in San Diego Bay. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Navy wraps up jet crash salvage work in San Diego Bay

By Karen Kucher

March 9, 2025 at 3:38 a.m.

The Navy says it has completed its salvage and recovery operations of a wrecked Navy...

Brothers Chris and David Kunz are co-owners of Coastal Clarity, a small window-cleaning business based in La Jolla. (Madi Koresaar)

La Jolla window-cleaning business brings Coastal Clarity to brothers’ career path

By Noah Lyons

March 5, 2025 at 2:04 p.m.

David and Chris Kunz, ages 20 and 25, team up to offer window and solar...

San Diego’s self-described ‘king of coke’ sentenced for trafficking drugs, recruiting cartel hitmen

March 3, 2025 at 5:01 p.m.

Prosecutors said Rudy Silva was a prolific drug trafficker who ordered a cartel 'sicario' to...

Bonita man sentenced for girl’s fatal fentanyl overdose

February 28, 2025 at 3:19 p.m.

Marcus Ray Chavez gave the 15-year-old counterfeit pills containing fentanyl in exchange for sex, and...

San Diego man sentenced in multimillion-dollar fraud scheme

February 28, 2025 at 2:51 p.m.

Denny Bhakta was convicted of more than two dozen securities fraud, bank fraud and money...

In an image taken from a uniform-mounted camera recording, a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy points his gun at Christian Alejandro Rodriguez as he sits in a burning car in Temecula on Jan. 8, 2025. Deputies shot and wounded Rodriguez after he threw a hammer at one of them, the Sheriff’s Department said. (Courtesy of Riverside County Sheriff’s Department)

San Diego man in burning car in Temecula threw hammer before deputies shot him, video shows

By Brian Rokos

February 27, 2025 at 12:58 p.m.

Sheriff's body-worn camera footage was released Tuesday of the Jan. 8 encounter with Christian Alejandro...

Delicia Turner Sonnenberg will be directing three plays for Playwrights Projects’ 40th California Young Playwrights Contest on Saturday, March 1. (Eduardo Contreras / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Playwrights Projects marks 40th year of fostering young writers

February 27, 2025 at 9:55 a.m.

Freelance director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg will helm productions of three youth-written plays at Saturday's festival

Reported shooting near Grant Hill elementary school forces campus lockdown

February 25, 2025 at 2:21 p.m.

The shooting was reported around 1:20 p.m. near 30th and Market streets, and one person...

Staff at the Helen Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe examine a litter of puppies that were handed over to the organization after a good Samaritan found the hours-old dogs discarded in a Lemon Grove dumpster. (The Helen Woodward Animal Center)

Good Samaritan saves litter of pug puppies found in Taco Bell trash bin

February 21, 2025 at 7:54 a.m.

The seven surviving puppies will be made ready for adoption Friday at the Helen Woodward...

Telegraph tap dancers Alaman Diadhiou, left, and Evan Ruggiero, right, work with co-choreographer and co-lyricist Daniel J. Watts, center, in rehearsal for La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere musical “3 Summers of Lincoln.” (Rich Soublet II)

La Jolla Playhouse’s ‘3 Summers’ to offer more human look at Lincoln, Douglass

February 28, 2025 at 9:48 a.m.

The world premiere musical by Joe DiPietro, Daniel J. Watts and Crystal Monee Hall will...

28 music festivals coming to Southern California in 2025

By Holly Alvarado

February 16, 2025 at 9:34 p.m.

From Wonderfront to Coachella and from Gator by the Bay to the San Diego Tijuana...

The new Lobby Tiki Bar & Grill at Oceanside’s Brick Hotel. (Brick Hotel)

Check out Oceanside's new tiki bar

February 16, 2025 at 7:22 a.m.

Also this week, Sammy's does heart-shaped pizzas, Puesto has a new creative chef and Pechanga's...

Michael Shannnon and Jason Narducy (photo by Christy Bush)

Four very different San Diego concerts you won’t want to miss this week

February 13, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Michael Shannon's two well-deserved Oscar nominations did not result in victories, but the veteran actor...

Enjoying his Turkish coffee, owner Erol Kozoglu at the Pacific Bean Coffee located near Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach, San Diego, CA. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego café among America’s top-rated independent coffee shops

February 8, 2025 at 4:06 p.m.

Founded more than 30 years ago near the Pacific Beach boardwalk, this family-owned café best...

Judy Collins made her debut album in 1961 and strives to keep her music fresh. “The whole point about being a singer is to make it sound like you’ve never heard it before.,” she says “That’s what the pleasure is and what the challenge is.” (Photo courtesy Hanover Theatre)

The three San Diego concerts you certifiably don’t want to miss this week

February 6, 2025 at 8:29 a.m.

Judy Collins, 85, and Veronica Swift, 30, are miles apart stylistically. But both are versatile...

Illumina headquarters in San Diego. (Natallie Rocha/The San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego’s Illumina placed on China’s ‘unreliable entity list’ following Trump tariffs

February 5, 2025 at 4:45 p.m.

The local gene-sequencing company and a U.S. clothing company face sales restrictions in China as...

A celebration of life will be held Feb. 8 for Lorraine Boyce first woman mayor of Escondido, who co-founded the Escondido Community Child Development Center.

Celebration of Life set for Lorraine Boyce, first woman mayor of Escondido

January 23, 2025 at 8:15 p.m.

Lorraine Boyce started her work as a nurse in the obstetrics ward of Los Angeles...

Arden Pala, 15, center in grey T-shirt with students in the basketball clinic he coaches at Perkins elementary school, was named 2024 Sports Illustrated Sports Kid of the Year.

Rancho Bernardo teen brings sport he loves to kids in need, and is picked as Sports Illustrated’s Kid of the Year

January 21, 2025 at 9:28 a.m.

Arden Pala, 15, loves to play basketball. But he also loves to coach kids who...

A Coaster train crosses the 107-year-old San Dieguito River Railway Bridge on April 26, 2023 in Del Mar, CA. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Del Mar renews train tunnel concerns, asks to delay new bridge

January 8, 2025 at 10:27 a.m.

The tracks atop the eroding bluffs are San Diego's only railroad connection to the rest...

Driver dies after crashing Jeep into tree in Mission Bay

January 3, 2025 at 6:57 p.m.

The reportedly stolen Jeep crashed on Quivira Way near Hospitality Point Park around 5:25 a.m.,...

A Surfliner train by Amtrak travels along the bluffs in Del Mar.

Review of possible Del Mar train tunnel routes due in early 2025

By The San Diego Union Tribune

December 30, 2024 at 3:01 p.m.

Planners investigating nearly 1,500 comments on initial notice of preparation

June 19, 1990: Former President Jimmy Carter shakes hands with (l-r) Teresa Goebel, Richard Purdy and Tien Tran, students from Gompers Secondary School. Carter gave them a tour of Habitat for Humanity housing site in Encanto. (Dana Fisher / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Photos: Jimmy Carter in San Diego

December 29, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, visited San Diego many times. Here...

Orphaned kitten rescue dubbed Christmas miracle by animal center staff

December 27, 2024 at 4:42 p.m.

Evergreen, a kitten whose mother and siblings were killed, was hiding in a Christmas tree...

Menorah lighting ceremonies are part of Hanukkah celebrations across San Diego County.

A guide to Hanukkah festivities and menorah lightings across San Diego County

December 19, 2024 at 9:04 p.m.

Hanukkah celebrations begin at sundown Dec. 25 and continue through Jan. 2. The Jewish festival,...

District attorney finds five shootings by law enforcement were legally justified

December 13, 2024 at 2:23 p.m.

In four of the five shootings, the suspects either threatened officers with a weapon or...

Holiday parades and other festivities are slated across San Diego County. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

10 not-to-miss holiday parades in San Diego

December 16, 2024 at 4:52 p.m.

There's still time to catch some holiday parades taking off

Pedestrian killed while walking on freeway near San Diego airport

December 9, 2024 at 3:24 p.m.

The man was struck by a Jeep Grand Cherokee while walking on Interstate 5 near...

Composer and longtime UC San Diego music faculty member Rand Steiger. (UC San Diego)

Trump’s re-election fueled cutting-edge composer Rand Steiger’s ‘Rage/Resolve’

By Beth Wood

December 8, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

The UC San Diego professor’s new piece for New York’s JACK Quartet to debut in...

Tony-winning actor Jefferson Mays will perform the solo play “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Told by Jefferson Mays” Dec. 12-22 at the Old Globe.

Tony-winner Jefferson Mays plans unique, solo ‘Carol’ ghost tale at Old Globe

December 9, 2024 at 7:31 a.m.

The revered actor will narrate the story of Ebenezer Scrooge in a new pared-down, in-the-round...

People coming and going at the San Diego Superior Court’s Central Courthouse in downtown San Diego. (Alejandro Tamayo / U-T file)

Two more ex-Aztec football players settle civil suit alleging rape

December 11, 2024 at 7:36 p.m.

The woman accused multiple players of raping her at an off-campus house party in 2021

Filmmaker and raconteur John Waters will present “A John Waters Christmas” on Sunday and Monday at the Lafayette Hotel in North Park. (Greg Gorman)

John Waters ready to make merry with annual naughty-and-nice Christmas show

By Nick Sestanovich

December 6, 2024 at 6:01 a.m.

The filmmaker and raconteur will perform Sunday and Monday at Lou Lou's Jungle Room in...

A photo of the Hotel del Coronado shortly after its completion in 1888. (Hotel del Coronado)

Curious about the Hotel del Coronado's $550 million renovation? Go behind the scenes in this documentary

December 16, 2024 at 12:26 p.m.

The first two parts of the three-episode 'Historic Places' series will air this week and...

Man killed in Southcrest alley shootout identified

December 5, 2024 at 9:06 a.m.

Manual Correa was killed after an argument with a group of people near a parking...

A scene from Common Ground Theatre’s production of Langston Hughes’ gospel-filled “Black Nativity.” (P’Gail Betton)

Common Ground revives its popular gospel-filled ‘Black Nativity’ production

December 5, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

Written by Langston Hughes in 1961, it tells the Christmas story with an all-Black cast,...

An undated photo of Gustavo Rivera. (U.S. Drug Enforcement istration)

Long-jailed former cartel lieutenant pleads guilty in San Diego and is released from custody

December 5, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Gustavo Rivera, who grew up in Chula Vista, was a high-ranking member of the Arellano...

Echo Guernsey is named winner of the 2024 Matchbook Story Contest on Tuesday night. (Library Foundation SD)

San Diego writer fits life and death into 41 words with winning matchbook story

By Kristina Davis

December 4, 2024 at 2:55 p.m.

Echo Guernsey was named the Library Shop SD's newest winner of the Matchbook Story Contest

Former San Diego Unified superintendent Lamont Jackson was sued Monday by a former district who alleges he sexually harassed her, including allegedly inviting her to sex and asking her to check into a hotel with him.

claims sexual harassment in lawsuit against San Diego Unified, former superintendent

By Kristen Taketa

December 4, 2024 at 12:27 p.m.

The lawsuit elaborates upon quid pro quo sexual harassment allegations against Lamont Jackson that she...

Pianist Bertrand Chamayou and soprano Barbara Hannigan will perform Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Baker-Baum Concert Hall in La Jolla. (La Jolla Music Society)

Famed soprano Barbara Hannigan set for San Diego concert debut

By Beth Wood

December 1, 2024 at 6:01 a.m.

The Grammy Award-winning singer and French pianist Bertrand Chamayou will perform Messiaen, Scriabin and an...

Judy Collins, a happy workaholic at 85, talks music, sobriety and testifying at 1968’s Chicago 7 trial

December 4, 2024 at 2:27 p.m.

Judy Collins, now 85. is at work on a Broadway musical, a new album and...

Max Macke and Jyl Kaneshiro in a scene from Scripps Ranch Theatre’s “Tiny Beautiful Things.” (Daren Scott)

Review: Scripps Ranch Theatre’s ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ is funny and heartbreaking

November 29, 2024 at 4:17 p.m.

The play was inspired by Cheryl Strayed's real-life experience as an online advice columnist

A bartender pours beer into a glass at North Park Beer in Bankers Hill in San Diego in 2023. (Adriana Heldiz – U-T)

Brewery Rowe: Is San Diego’s beer industry circling the drain? Nope.

By Peter Rowe

November 29, 2024 at 7:18 a.m.

Despite several recent brewery closures, there are still 137 breweries and the region's beers continue...

Country singer Tucker Wetmore will perform Dec. 7 at the Frontwave Arena in Oceanside (UMG)

How Tucker Wetmore became one of country’s hottest rising stars

By Tribune News Service

November 29, 2024 at 7:17 a.m.

The Seattle-raised singer-songwriter will perform Dec. 7 at the new Frontwave Arena in Oceanside

Father, son arrested after Grant Hill stabbing death released, detectives ID victim

November 28, 2024 at 12:34 p.m.

The father and son were arrested — and since released pending further investigation — after...

Singer-songwriter Judy Collins. (Shervin Lainez)

Arts roundup: Judy Collins’ holiday music leads off holiday weekend happenings

November 28, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

Also this week, Judy Collins, La Jolla Playhouse's DNA New Works Series, comedian Patton Oswalt...

Winter Wonderland festivals, Christmas Tree Lightings and holiday festivities are getting underway. (Photo courtesy of The Lil’ Dickens Carolers)

Community events in San Diego County: From Winter Wonderland festival to Pearl Harbor Remembrance

November 27, 2024 at 9:10 p.m.

Sneak peek at street fairs, festivals, concerts, performances, art shows, blood drives, community meetings...

Retired Judge J. Lawrence Irving. (Bruce K. Huff / UT file)

Former San Diego federal judge who later mediated Enron settlement dies at 89

November 27, 2024 at 11:14 a.m.

J. Lawrence Irving resigned his judgeship over concerns with sentencing guidelines and later mediated the...

Miles G. Jackson (left) and Marco Barricelli in La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere production of “Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again.” (Rich Soublet II)

Review: La Jolla Playhouse’s ‘Your Theater Presents’ a funny, touching behind-the-curtain Scrooge tale

November 25, 2024 at 1:57 p.m.

Anna Ouyang Moensch's world premiere play explores Dickens' themes through one theater's 'A Christmas Carol'...

Francis Gercke as Paul Sheldon, left, and Maggie Carney as Annie Wilkes in Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s “Misery.” (Daren Scott)

Review: Backyard’s eerie ‘Misery’ a gripping and grisly horror thriller

November 24, 2024 at 10:16 a.m.

Adapted from Stephen King's 1987 novel, it's the story of a famous romance novelist taken...

Broadway, film and recording star Leslie Odom Jr. brings his Christmas concert tour to San Diego on Nov. 30. (Dennis Leupold)

Broadway, film star Leslie Odom Jr. on Christmas, fashion and finding the divine

November 24, 2024 at 6:45 a.m.

The "Hamilton" Tony-winner will bring his Christmas concert tour to San Diego on Nov. 30

A musician for all seasons, Billy Childs many collaborators have ranged from Yo-Yo Ma, Wayne Shorter and Sting to Alison Krauss, Kronos Quartet and the San Diego Symphony.(Raj Naik/Courtesy of Billy Childs)

Billy Childs scores high in jazz, classical and more: ‘It doesn’t matter what genre it is.’

November 24, 2024 at 6:32 a.m.

The veteran keyboardist and composer credits Keith Emerson of prog-rock pioneers Emerson, Lake & Palmer...

One dead in stabbing during large fight in Grant Hill

November 23, 2024 at 4:28 p.m.

Police responded about 4:45 p.m. Friday to a fight reported in the area of 27th...

American Pit Bull Terrier mix named Plum is pet of the week at San Diego Humane Society.

Pet of the week: American Pit Bull Terrier mix who likes belly rubs

November 22, 2024 at 7:57 p.m.

Animal: Plum, 7-year-old American Pit Bull Terrier mix, #926079. Where: San Diego Humane Society’s San...

Halozyme headquarters in Carmel Valley. (Mike Freeman / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego’s Halozyme withdraws $2.1B Evotec bid, just one week after making offer

November 23, 2024 at 5:47 a.m.

The San Diego biotech retracted its bid to buy German drugmaker Evotec a week after...

Driver killed in crash on side of SR-52 identified

November 22, 2024 at 1:28 p.m.

Jorge Rodriguez of Chula Vista pulled over, got out of his pickup and was struck...

San Diego biotech Halozyme makes $2.1B bid for German drugmaker

November 22, 2024 at 4:19 p.m.

San Diego-based Halozyme Therapeutics proposed an all cash acquisition of Evotec.

Cyndi Lauper at her Nov. 20, 2023, concert at SDSU's Viejas Arena in San Diego.

Review: Cyndi Lauper let her true colors shine as she bopped time after time at her San Diego farewell concert

November 21, 2024 at 4:09 p.m.

Cyndi Lauper is just eight concerts away from concluding the U.S. leg of her "Girls...

William Bradley, chef-director of San Diego’s Michelin three-star restaurant Addison by William Bradley, prepares dishes in the kitchen of the Carmel Valley restaurant. (Eric Wolfinger)

Six San Diego restaurants named to OpenTable’s top 100 restaurants in America list

November 21, 2024 at 2:57 p.m.

The honors were based on reviews made by s of the restaurant reservations platform

Francis Gercke, left, and Maggie Carney in Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s “Misery.” (Alex Guzman)

Stephen King’s dark novel ‘Misery’ headed to a San Diego stage this weekend

November 21, 2024 at 6:01 a.m.

Backyard Renaissance Theatre is presenting William Goldman's stage adaptation of the 1987 horror novel

The of Think X, which plays Sunday in San Diego. (Billy Hess)

San Diego arts roundup: Think X to explore Pink Floyd’s music in a heavier way

November 21, 2024 at 6:01 a.m.

Also this week: Comedian Kathleen Madigan, NVA's 'Miracle on 34th' radio play, San Diego Symphony...

Chuck Bieler. (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)

Chuck Bieler, former San Diego Zoo director, dies at 89

By Karen Kucher

November 22, 2024 at 9:04 a.m.

Bieler was ed as an "extraordinary leader" during his 55 years of work with the...

Rancho Santa Fe woman charged with failing to corral aggressive dogs

November 21, 2024 at 7:28 a.m.

The 68-year-old woman reportedly allowed her dogs to regularly escape her North County property and...

A courtroom sketch of the sentencing hearing for Leonard Glenn Francis, aka “Fat Leonard,” on Nov. 5, 2024. From left are Assistant U.S. Attorneys Fred Sheppard and Mark Conover, U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino, defense attorney William Douglas Sprague and Francis. (Krentz Johnson)

‘Fat Leonard’ to appeal sentence, while retired Navy captain will seek a reduced charge

November 20, 2024 at 2:32 p.m.

Leonard Francis will seek a reduction of his 15-year sentence while retired Capt. Davis Haas...

The dining room of Jacquèe Renna’s new rooftop restaurant Communion in Mission Hills. (Pacifica Restaurants)

Its owner was sold on the view. Take a peek inside San Diego’s most beautiful new restaurant

November 21, 2024 at 7:22 a.m.

Restaurateur Jacquèe Renna also opened a street-level cafe-bar, Paradis, in the same building on Nov....

Actors Miles G. Jackson, left, and Marco Barricelli (seen in reflection in the mirror) rehearse a scene from La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere play Your Local Theater Presents a Christmas Carol, By Charles Dickens, Again.” (Samantha Laurent)

La Jolla Playhouse’s ‘Your Local Theater Presents’ looks at the lives of jobbing actors

November 20, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

The world premiere play by Anna Ouyang Moench is about an actor who keeps returning,...

3 freeway workers struck by suspected DUI driver on I-805 on-ramp

By Karen Kucher

November 19, 2024 at 6:06 p.m.

A driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI after running into three workers on a...

FILE – An election worker removes tabulated ballots from the machine inside the Maricopa County Recorders Office, Nov. 10, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Feds drop case of San Diego man charged with threatening Arizona election official

November 18, 2024 at 4:44 p.m.

The alleged victim, Maricopa County's recorder, says he expressed to prosecutors his "earnest interest in...

A scene from Moxie Theatre’s “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,” one of two productions the company is presenting in repertory this fall. The other is “Little Women: The Broadway Musical.” (Desiree Clarke Miller)

Review: Moxie’s ambitious repertory experiment has pluses, minuses

November 18, 2024 at 6:17 p.m.

The rotating productions of a G-rated musical and R-rated horror drama show off the cast's...

SATURDAY, Nov. 16, 2024. Record-Breaking Pledge to USD Will Transform University’s STEM Programs. The University of San Diego (USD) received a record-breaking pledge from Darlene Marcos Shiley, philanthropist and Chair Emerita of USD’s Board of Trustees, totaling $75 million. It’s the largest gift in university history and among the largest ever given to any Catholic university in the country. Photo by The University of San Diego

Darlene Shiley pledges record $75 million to University of San Diego for STEM

By Gary Robbins

November 17, 2024 at 9:21 p.m.

The University of San Diego got a $75 million boost Saturday from philanthropist Darlene Marcos...

Law enforcement in Australia search a car as part of Operation Ironside in 2021. (Australian Federal Police)

First person sentenced in San Diego FBI’s encrypted phone sting that spied on criminals worldwide

November 15, 2024 at 6:03 p.m.

Osemah Elhassen, a Lebanese-Australian dual citizen, was one of 17 indicted in conspiracy to ister...

Dacara Seward, left, and Velvet Teressa Salgado in Blindspot Collective’s “Another Day in Paradise.” (Blindspot Collective)

Review: ‘Paradise’ docu-play finds commonalities among San Diego’s homeless

November 16, 2024 at 6:46 a.m.

Blindspot Collective based this world premiere play with music on interviews with 100 local unhoused...

Mission Bay from the Bayside Walk path. (Maura Fox / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Man sentenced in watercraft crash that killed 12-year-old paddleboarder in Mission Bay

November 15, 2024 at 3:30 p.m.

Arsanyous Refat Ghaly, 20, pleaded guilty for the July 29, 2023, watercraft crash that killed...

Christmas tree lighting ceremonies are planned across San Diego County. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County /SCNG)

A guide to Christmas tree lighting celebrations and holiday festivities across San Diego

November 25, 2024 at 3:48 p.m.

Communities throughout San Diego are kicking off the holidays with tree lighting festivities

A U.S. Border Patrol vehicle drives along the border road in the Tijuana River Valley on July 15 in San Diego. (Alejandro Tamayo / U-T file)

Former San Diego Border Patrol agent charged with on-duty sex crimes

November 14, 2024 at 5:50 p.m.

Juan Prishker, who has resigned from CBP, allegedly touched one victim while she was restrained...

An overview of Carmel Mountain Ranch Town Center in San Diego. Local firm Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. owns many grocery store centered shopping malls in other states. (Ana Ramirez / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Blackstone buys San Diego-based shopping center landlord for $4 billion

November 8, 2024 at 12:54 p.m.

Blackstone will buy the San Diego-based landlord that owns strip malls and take the company...

Overhead view of buildings and construction in Sorrento Valley. Most of San Diego's life science companies are concentrated in Sorrento Valley, Sorrento Mesa and La Jolla. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Even San Diego’s life science office buildings are sitting vacant. ‘We just oversubscribed on space.’

October 30, 2024 at 1:18 p.m.

The region’s vacancy rate for life science lab and office space hit a record high...

Kaiser mental health care workers gathered outside Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center with signs and whistles getting attention of vehicles ing along in Kearny Mesa on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Kaiser mental health worker strike reaches second week

By Paul Sisson

October 29, 2024 at 5:39 p.m.

Protests set for San Diego and other locations across Southern California

The Amtrak Pacific Surfliner es along the beach in San Clemente on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. Toks Omishakin, Secretary of California State Transportation Agency, announced the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program funding for Coastal Rail Protection Projects which will help protect and preserve the coastal rail line through Orange and San Diego County. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County /SCNG)

State allocates millions of dollars for San Diego region rail improvements