Solana Beach News

Solana Beach boasts less than two miles of coastline, but the battle over how to protect that pricey property could end up shaping urbanized blufftops all along the state's coastline.

Operating as "a lean and mean machine," Solana Beach appears on track to begin the upcoming fiscal year with a balanced budget.

June is shaping up to be a monster of a month for San Diego theater, with the curtain rising on the Old Globe's Shakespeare fest and lots of other productions.

Is there anything more played-out than reality TV? And yet it won't go away. Its longevity is rivaled only by its inanity.

On the weekend of June 2nd & 3rd, the 33rd annual Fiesta del Sol returns to the easy breezy seaside of Solana Beach.

The owners of Pacific Coast GrillA announced that the Cardiff beachfront restaurant will open its doors in June, about one year after it moved operations from the original Solana Beach location.A The new restaurant at 2526 S. Coast Highway has been completely revamped, and some new details about the project have just come to light: According to a ... (more)

Senior Resource Group LLC has acquired Monarch Village San Francisco, a 208-unit Daly City senior living center, the Solana Beach-based company said earlier this week.

Sure you love your dog , but having him watch you sit on the sofa doesn't constitute playtime.

In a highly attended council meeting, the City of Solana Beach recently set a precedent in San Diego County by banning single use point of sale plastic bags.A This move takes the concept of "Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" to a new level.A By refusing to allow single use plastic bags to be supplied in Solana Beach, they will be eliminating the ... (more)

In an effort to increase transparency and promote better communication, the 22nd District Agricultural Association provided a summary and timeline at its May 8 meeting of the environmental steps being taken at the Del Mar Fairgrounds to comply with a cease-and-desist order issued by the California Coastal Commission in March.

At the May 9 meeting, the city became the first in the region to regulate the distribution of single-use plastic bags by adopting an ordinance introduced two weeks earlier.

Four more communities, three of them in California, have banned single-use plastic carryout bags, bringing the number of communities with plastics-related bans in the United States to 74 -- almost two-thirds of them in California.

All things change - some things just take a while. So it is that Pam Slater-Price, first elected to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors in 1992, is retiring this year, meaning that the five-member board will get its first fresh face since Greg Cox was appointed to fill a vacancy in January 1995.

Kudos, congrats, and salutations to Solana Beach for being the first city in San Diego County to pass a plastic bag ban ordinance! I look forward to other communities following suit.

Luxury consumer goods flash sale site LuxeYard has agreed to acquire LeatherGroups.com, the online division of Solana Beach, Calif.-based furniture retailer HomeLoft.

Public comments are now being accepted for a joint shoreline protection project between Encinitas, Solana Beach and the Army Corps of Engineers to help preserve the beach in those two North County cities.

Rather than direct staff to develop rules for using the newly renovated Fletcher Cove Community Center, as was planned, City Council instructed stakeholders to create policies that are acceptable to residents who want the facility to be available for celebrations and those who don't. "This was like a snowball going down a hill," Councilman Tom ... (more)

A massive "Self-Centered Brick" to Logan Jenkins for his column about Solana Beach's pioneering ordinance banning single-use plastic bags .

Singer/songwriter and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac fame performs Thursday, May 10, at the Sunset Center in Carmel.

The weekend U-T Watchdog story about some local governments holding cash reserves vastly higher than what credit-rating agencies think necessary is certain to be viewed different ways by different people.