Public Safety
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County Lab, Fire Stations to Benefit from Backup Power Supply Funds

| 4:40 PM

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The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ratify the acceptance of fiscal year 2020-2021 state community power resiliency funds, a key step in helping to improve backup energy sources for essential facilities and communications equipment as part of emergency preparedness efforts in the county.

Consumer
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‘Tis the Season for — Recycling!

| 10:49 AM

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The holiday season means gifts, packages, trees and yes — recycling! Here are some tips, from your trees to everything else.

Transportation

VIDEO: County’s Round-the-Clock Road Warriors

| 9:31 AM

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A series of powerful storms means this rainy weather won’t be stopping anytime soon.  County Public Works crews hit the road-even in heavy rain-to keep you safe.  They work 12-hour shifts, setting up barricades on flooded roadways, and fill potholes, to make the hazardous driving conditions a little less hazardous.