SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – San Diego County’s unadjusted unemployment rate fell again to 2.7% in September, according to data released Friday by the California Economic Development Department. Estimated non-farm employment in the San Diego-Carlsbad region rose by 4,600 jobs from 1,510,400 in August to 1,515,000 last month, due largely to government ...

Estimated non-farm employment in the San Diego-Carlsbad region rose by 4,600 jobs from 1,510,400 in August to 1,515,000 last month, due largely to government job gains. Farm jobs remained stagnant at 9,100 jobs across both months. The total unemployment rate fell from an adjusted 3.4% in August to 2.7% last month. Government jobs increased by ...

The seduction begins in Yuma. "Next water: 170 miles,'' teases a billboard on Interstate 8 for Hornblower Cruises, a San Diego harbor-cruise operator. Few people who have visited sparkling San Diego need convincing of its endless attributes. Beaches for every personality. Nearly perfect, if chilly at night, weather year-round. Marquee ...

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The San Diego International Film Festival is happening now until this Sunday! The San Diego International Film Festival focuses on the Power of Perspective. The ability that film provides to look at important topics through someone ...

The San Diego Gulls will play their home opener Friday evening at Pechanga Arena San Diego with player introductions accompanied by pyrotechnics and a dry ice display and team mascot Gulliver arriving on the ice in a Polaris Slingshot three-wheel motorcycle. Doors will open at 6 p.m. All fans in attendance are encouraged to arrive early for the ...

Ambassadors from Pin Ups for Vets were scheduled to visit patients at the San Diego Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Oct. 25, but the appointment abruptly was canceled on Oct. 8. The decision came as a shock to the organization, which had visited the same hospital twice before. “I just cannot understand why. I mean the clothes we’re ...

There are benefits to each, with renting allowing for greater ease if you’re planning on relocating frequently and requiring less money up front. But, rents are climbing in San Diego, and Zillow calculates that it’s actually cheaper to buy than to rent in the San Diego area if someone stays in their home for just four years and eleven ...

SAN DIEGO — Some San Diego homeowners are making a little extra money and helping with the housing crisis by converting their detached garages into so-called "granny flats." KGTV visited the 95-year-old home of Mike Walsh, who is in the process of remodeling his garage. "It was a huge garage and we had a bunch of space in it, so we thought we ...

Some 300 rats are up for adoption after being rescued from a homeless woman's van. After receiving several complaints from residents in the upscale neighborhood of Via de la Valle, the San Diego Humane Society spent days removing hundreds of the rodents from the vehicle. The van's owner Clara said she started with just two pets, but they ...

San Diego Opera launches its 2019-2020 season with a well-proven grand opera from Verdi. But this production of "Aida" tries something different. When David Bennett took over San Diego Opera in 2015 he introduced a program called dētour, which was meant to showcase everything that was not grand opera. "If you think of the word of a detour ...

What began with just two pet rats quickly ballooned to more than 300 rodents living inside a van parked near a convenience store in one of San Diego's more upscale communities. Now, 140 of those “very social [and] smart” pet rodents are up for adoption. The San Diego Humane Society said it received a call on Oct. 8 from a woman living in ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - An 86-year-old San Diego woman with what was described as mild dementia was missing and police sought tips from the public as to her whereabouts. Bridget Rita Ferrentino's family went to her home in the 6600 block of Tuxedo Road on Thursday but found she was not there and her car was gone, according to the San Diego Police ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A woman living in a van in San Diego with her pet rats has agreed to give them up — all 300 of them. The San Diego Union-Tribune says the San Diego Humane Society went to the woman’s van near Del Mar on Oct. 8. 300+ pet rats plucked from van, where they lived with owner near Del Mar https://t.co/64CtyKptco [Breaking ...

LIVE VIDEO: NASA astronauts conduct first all-woman spacewalk. Click to watch full coverage … A woman living in a van in San Diego has agreed to give up all 300 of her pet rats, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported on Thursday. Although the unidentified woman reportedly started with two rats, the rodents multiplied exponentially. They all ...

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Office of Emergency Services announced Friday that they will be mailing out Personal Disaster Plan templates next week to residents and businesses in areas considered to be at the most severe risk for wildfires in the region. The plan, which has been redesigned and updated, covers all emergency hazards ...

4 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday. 1019 Organ Pavilion, 2125 Pan American Road E., Balboa Park. $5 for adults; free for children under 12. bit.ly/2MnuOcc The San Diego Indian American Society celebrates its 12th annual Festival of Lights on Saturday at Balboa Park. This year’s fete honors the 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). It is a ...

Music is very close to the Latin heart. The genres that Hispanics enjoy cover a wide variety. One of them is reggae, the classic, dance-friendly Jamaican style that will be the focus of Saturday’s debut edition of San Diego Bahía Fest. It will take place at Embarcadero Marina Park North, across from Seaport Village. The lineup includes Latin ...

For the third straight year, UC San Diego underestimated fall enrollment, which surged to nearly 40,000, further cramping a campus that’s in the midst of one of the largest expansions to hit a California university in decades. Enrollment rose to 39,634 — a figure that’s 836 higher than last fall, according to data released Thursday by the ...

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors this week unanimously approved a plan to advance the use of electric vehicles. The plan, dubbed the “electric vehicle roadmap,” promotes vehicle ownership by phasing in 501 electric vehicles into the county’s fleet by 2027 and installing 63 publicly accessible charging stations at county ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) -- UC San Diego alumna Jessica Meir is taking part in NASA's first all-female spacewalk Friday to replace a faulty power unit outside the International Space Station. Meir and Christina Koch will replace a battery charge/discharge unit that failed to activate after new lithium-ion batteries were installed on the space station's ...