VIDEO: Park Rangers Use Bikes to Better Patrol
Aug. 4, 2017 | 10:09 AMReading Time: < 1 minute
Where there’s a wheel there’s a way! And there are plenty of wheels making way through our County parks and trails. Find out why.
Stories by Suzanne Bartole
VIDEO: Learn Cast Iron Cooking at County Park
Jun. 28, 2017 | 12:53 PMReading Time: < 1 minute
Elevate your camping skills – learn how to make delicious meals in a cast iron skillet from one of our park rangers!
VIDEO: County Seeks $25 Million To Address Affordable Housing Crisis
Jun. 12, 2017 | 3:24 PMReading Time: < 1 minute
The Board of Supervisors will soon look at three ideas designed to help get the homeless into homes. County Supervisors Ron Roberts and Dianne Jacob today unveiled the three initiatives to spur the building, renovation and acquisition of affordable housing and stem the growing tide of homelessness.
VIDEO: Finding Pests: Inspectors Keep Flower Fields Looking Good
Jun. 1, 2017 | 10:41 AMReading Time: < 1 minute
If you’ve ever been to the Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch, you know how the flowers there seem to go on and on and on. There are more than 50 acres of picture-perfect blooms there, partly thanks to County inspectors.
VIDEO: Obesity Rate Drops Among Chula Vista Students
May 8, 2017 | 5:34 PMReading Time: < 1 minute
A six-year initiative to improve the health of students in the Chula Vista Elementary School District has resulted in a significant drop in obesity rates. Numbers released Monday show that compared to 2010, when the district first collected Body Mass Index data, the number of students in the obese category decreased by 17 percent. The number […]
VIDEO: Results of Annual Count of Homeless Announced
Apr. 20, 2017 | 5:29 PMReading Time: < 1 minute
The annual count of San Diego County’s homeless population found 9,116 people living on the streets or in shelters, a 5 percent increase from last year. Results were released Thursday from the Point-in-Time Count held in the early morning hours of January 27, 2017. The effort is organized by the Regional Task Force on the […]
VIDEO: Dirty Clothes, Clean Future
Mar. 3, 2017 | 11:50 AMReading Time: < 1 minute
These juvenile probationers are learning something to help them succeed in life that many would consider a basic life skill: laundry.