Chula Vista News

Get ready to shake out that picnic blanket and dust off your favorite lawn chairs.

Theme park visitors have some tough decisions to make on Memorial Day weekend if they want to be first on their block to see this summer's new attractions.

One of the most positive actions, even laudable, is the joining of two or maybe three organizations within the community for the purpose of doing something for the public good.

A Chula Vista man who sliced the face of his attorney during his Dec. 13 trial pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated mayhem and faces 20 years to life in prison - which would be added towards two other sentences.

A National City man who killed his roommate after he made a disparaging remark was sentenced May 8 to 24 years in state prison.

Two weeks ago there was a letter to our editor from a woman in San Diego who castigated and vilified the Chula Vista Police Department.

Austin's mother, Amanda Stroberg, said that after the boy auditioned for the talent show, she received an e-mail from school administrators indicating that although they were pleased with Austin's performance, he would not be allowed to perform the song if the song had any religious implications.

A mother was caught leaving two children under 5 in a running car while she went shopping in an Eastlake store.

Temperatures around the region have topped 100 in some areas Monday and readings in the upper 90s are widespread elsewhere.

A battle is brewing between Caltrans and a South Bay property owner. Chula Vista property owner Mark San Agustin said the state seized his 4.5 acres along East Palomar Street through eminent domain so that Caltrans can build a new transit station and park-and-ride along Interstate 805.

SAN DIEGO A brush fire next to Plaza Bonita is sending large plumes of smoke into the air Monday afternoon.

There's only one thing nicer than a Jaguar F-Type to look at over your first cup of coffee on a Monday morning - a Jaguar F-Type being lovingly stroked by a gorgeous young lady.

Under warm blue skies on Saturday, the " Battle of The Mariachis " started at 11 a.m. Mission San Juan Capistrano Executive Director Mechelle Lawrence Adams offered the welcome and ntroductions.

Q: Why are you running for assembly district 80? We have very, very high unemployment, higher than the rest of the region.

The musically inclined elders over the age of 55 travel to three local senior homes once a month to belt out tunes from the 1930s, '40s and '50s. Each month, Singin' Seniors serenade the folks at Canterbury Court Senior Apartments in Chula Vista, Friendship Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in National City and an Alzheimer's care facility in ... (more)

Peter Pan will swoop onto the stage in Chula Vista and delight children of all ages in the fast-paced, musical journey to Neverland courtesy of South County Christian Youth Theater.

Charges against special education teacher Loren McDonald were shocking to parents and grandparents of students that attend Olympian High School.

A Chula Vista special education teacher is being held on $2 million bail, charged with committing sex acts on a child who was not a student.

For the first time, we are seeing surveillance video of a Border Patrol agent accused of kicking and choking a Mexican national while in custody.

A report of gunfire near Escondido High School Thursday prompted an hourlong lockdown of the campus, while officers searched its rooms and grounds, finding no sign of a shooting or any other trouble.