A San Diego-based dermatologist was facing nearly two dozen felony counts Friday for allegedly billing Medi-Cal more than $1.3 million for services that were never provided.

SpaceX plans to launch 27 Starlink satellites from its Falcon 9 rocket on Friday, which will be visible above Southern California.

Mexican wrestling is on display at the Comic-Con Museum with the exhibit Sangre, Sudor y Mito: The Art and Tradition of Mexican Lucha Libre.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.

Heal the Bay has released its annual report card on California beaches. The top 10 dirtiest included one beach in Los Angeles County, one in Baja California, four in San Diego, three in San Mateo County and one in Marin County.

Who knows what the future may hold, but in the meantime the chamber choir has a performance coming up at 4 p.m. Sunday at Christ United Presbyterian Church on Fir Street. “Sliding Glass Doors” will feature music in the tradition of Black Americans including works composed and arranged by gospel scholar Brandon Waddles. Tickets at sacraprofana.org.

The predicted number of travelers would be a 3.6% increase from 2024, and would mark the third straight year of record-breaking travel by Southern California residents on Memorial Day weekend.

This fiscal year, the Border Patrol detected 277 maritime smuggling attempts involving jet skis, panga boats and other vessels.