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Study in Encinitas uses a wagon outfitted with GPS technology to track changes at Moonlight Beach and Cardiff State Beach

Four people suffered traumatic injuries in a fiery crash near Del Mar Saturday night, a sheriff's sergeant said.

A driver died after his vehicle smashed into a tree and caught on fire Sunday night, Oceanside police said.

Two men suspected of firing random gunshots as they drove down an Escondido street Saturday afternoon were arrested a few minutes later, police said.

Oceanside Councilman Jack Feller, the Hamlet of digital billboards, earns a sugary razz, but the Poway school district is delivered a thorny rose for its transgender policy.

A driver who died after crashing into a freeway wall on Interstate 5 was identified Saturday as Clayton Carothers Sandidge, 31, of Capistrano Beach.

City homeowners struggle with unclear building rules on coastal properties.

A cell tower site with a controversial past landed briefly in the spotlight this week when San Marcos officials renewed a permit to operate the tower — but not before blasting the operators for past failures and adding new conditions.

An Escondido school board member who had attended meetings through conference calls since December returned to a board meeting in person Thursday, after a Vista judge lifted a restraining order against him last month. Although Escondido Union School District Trustee Jose Fragozo was greeted with cheers and applause from a group of supporters, he returned to a meeting fraught with the same rancor that marked his earlier relations with administrators.

A South Freeman Street resident who was fatally shot outside his condomium in March has been identified by authorities as 35-year-old Brandon Keiser.