Descanso News

Forty-four children taken to Rady Children's Hospital in the past two weeks have tested positive for the H1N1 virus, including at least four who attended summer camps in the county, it was reported Wednesday.

The Monterey County Film Commission has launched a search for a site for county film museum.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a $4.9 billion budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year, cutting spending by 4.7 percent because of economic uncertainty.

Robert Waggoner, center, a fifth-grade teacher at Rancho Rosal School in Camarillo, is the winner of the California Federation of Republican Women's "My Favorite Teacher" competition for 2009.

June is always a month of anticipation for classical music lovers. The winter/spring seasons have finished but summer schedules loom on the horizon.

The 26th annualA Wine & Roses Charity Wine Tasting and Sale will be held Sunday, June 14 at the Westgate Hotel from 3 to 6:30 p.m.. Enjoy gourmet food and wine, live music, a silent auction and drawings for roses and cases of wine.

If water is an element essential to your hiking pleasure, then this hike in the Cuyamacas may be for you.

A suspect in the 2006 shooting death of a San Diego teenager was detained early Monday in Mexico by members of the Baja California State Preventive Police.

A child enjoy walking on paving stones through Nature's Table garden at Descanso Garden in La Canada Flintridge Thursday, May 21, 2009.

A 33-year-old man is in custody Wednesday on suspicion of being one of two men who forced their way into a La Mesa home and beat the occupant before leading police on a foot chase, police said.

National Public Gardens Day will be celebrated from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday at Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Drive.

Their report appears in the current issue of The Pan-Pacific Entomologist and focuses on Agrilus coxalis , a wood-boring beetle so rare it does not even have an accepted common name.

Gusts reached 47 mph Friday morning at Boulder Creek north of Descanso and 45 mph in Santa Ysabel west of Julian.

The garden walk, "Birds, Bats and Bugs: The Pollination Connection," will be offered at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Drive.

Palomar Mountain and the Interstate 8 corridor between Alpine and the Laguna Mountains are the two most important areas for clearing brush as a way of preventing wildfires, according to report delivered to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors today.

A reduction in services and longer wait times are in store for the county of San Diego because of looming budget cuts in the next fiscal year, officials said today.

March 11, 2009, 11:41 a.m. Two big announcements today from the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will mean big things for the forest and wetlands here and throughout the U.S. First, ...

The California Retired Teachers Association Division 43 will hold their annual scholarship musical at 2 p.m., March 22, at the home of Joanne and Jack Bourquin, 43-618 Salerno Court, in La Quinta.

Cathedral City police caught three auto theft suspects Sunday morning after a high speed chase.

" A frost advisory will be in effect for the county's inland valleys from 9 p.m. Tuesday through 9 a.m. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.