By 2022, 49.2 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 who vaped daily were using e-cigarettes at 4 percent nicotine or higher, up from about 3 percent in 2017. The UC San Diego led analysis, published Tuesday in Tobacco Control, ties the high-strength products to deeper dependence and lower odds of quitting.
In a briefing published Tuesday, Scripps Institution of Oceanography gathered its climate scientists, oceanographers and biologists on the Pacific warming event now building: record warm water already off San Diego, sea levels at Scripps Pier running about a foot above normal, stressed kelp, and a winter whose rain is likely but not promised.
Bridget Premont, a career foreign service officer who spent four years at the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, is San Diego County's first pollution crisis chief. The new job sits in the Office of County Counsel and puts one official in charge of coordinating the Tijuana River Valley response across six county departments and two countries.
The VA San Diego Healthcare System received a fourth quarter round of federal maintenance funding, the VA announced on Monday, covering four projects at the Jennifer Moreno VA Medical Center campus: electronic health record infrastructure, four modernized elevators, a renovated west entrance patio, and a replacement primary substation on electrical gear the VA dates back 50 years.
The City Council unanimously confirmed Bethany Bezak as San Diego's Chief Operating Officer on Monday, four days after Mayor Todd Gloria announced her appointment. Bezak, who holds degrees in civil engineering and architecture and has run the Transportation Department and the Stormwater Department, now takes over day to day City operations from the Mayor, who had held the job himself since February 2025.
Bridget Premont, a career foreign service officer who spent four years at the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, is San Diego County's first pollution crisis chief. The new job sits in the Office of County Counsel and puts one official in charge of coordinating the Tijuana River Valley response across six county departments and two countries.
The VA San Diego Healthcare System received a fourth quarter round of federal maintenance funding, the VA announced on Monday, covering four projects at the Jennifer Moreno VA Medical Center campus: electronic health record infrastructure, four modernized elevators, a renovated west entrance patio, and a replacement primary substation on electrical gear the VA dates back 50 years.
By 2022, 49.2 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 who vaped daily were using e-cigarettes at 4 percent nicotine or higher, up from about 3 percent in 2017. The UC San Diego led analysis, published Tuesday in Tobacco Control, ties the high-strength products to deeper dependence and lower odds of quitting.
The Coast Guard suspended its search on Sunday evening for 11 people still missing after a boat capsized in the Pacific west of Ensenada. Crews from the United States and Mexico searched more than 2,441 square miles. Sixteen people were rescued on Friday, three of them with injuries consistent with shark bites.
Kai Wallin's third sack and Cooper DiLeva's fourth field goal both landed with 57 seconds left on Saturday night. On Monday the Pac-12 named Wallin its defensive player of the week and DiLeva its special teams player of the week, the first weekly honors for either senior, bringing San Diego State's total to six this season.
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Eleven miles, nine stations, $2.1 billion, on time. The city did the hard thing once.
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