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Upset that the once lush golf course behind their homes is going brown and becoming overgrown, some residents who live near the Fallbrook Golf Club have started hooking hoses together from their backyards and irrigating a handful of deteriorating greens.

Proposed mural policy for Oceanside gets criticized.

The first phase of a master plan to re-energize Escondido’ largest community park is taking shape as the expansion of a playground in the northeast corner of downtown’s Grape Day Park nears completion.

Modular building replaces 30-year-old construction trailer

Palomar College’s plan for a new Rancho Bernardo campus has hit a snag — a lawsuit filed by the city of San Diego challenging the project’s environmental report.

Workers attempting repairs to the drinking water system Thursday at Escondido’s Vineyard Golf Course accidentally cross connected the recycled water system with the drinking water system.

The San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas is set to break ground Sunday on a 7,400 square foot education pavilion, a $5.3 million project that’s one of the nonprofit garden’s most ambitious additions in years.

A Poway man investigators believe has been setting wildfires in San Diego’s backcountry for years was found guilty Thursday of five counts of arson relating to a string of brush fires in Valley Center and Lakeside occurring in the past couple of years.

A church is hosting a Luau tomorrow to raise money for school supplies for needy children in the Fallbrook area.

Contractor misses deadline to finish dredging at Oceanside harbor.