Borrego Springs recorded its lowest groundwater pumping since 2021, marking a significant milestone in the community’s ...

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East County News Service June 2, 2026 (San Diego County) — Crime fiction fans and those who love thriller-style tomes should book it over to the historic Kensington Club next month for the second ...

East County Magazine June 10, 2026 (Borrego Springs) — Retired teacher Sylvia Maas, an accomplished ultra-endurance cyclist from Borrego Springs, is switching up the local desert landscape for a ...

Review by Philicia Tonangoye May 16, 2026 (San Diego’s East County) –On the corner of Avocado and Chase Ave in El Cajon, Al Awael is a new family-owned Mediterranean restaurant that offers a wide ...

July 23, 2025 (San Diego) – An El Cajon woman, 60, is dead and three others injured as a result of a three-vehicle crash that occurred July 19 on Dehesa Road, east of Sloan Canyon Road in ...

June 20, 2026— San Diego County Planning and Development Services staff hosted a town hall on June 16, at the BackCounty Resource Center in Boulevard to address community concerns about the latest ...

Image, left via Library of Congress: interior of East Wing, now demolished; this hallway displayed portraits of first ladies. October 31, 2025 (Washington D.C.) — President Donald Trump is facing ...

May 10, 2012 (San Diego’s East County) – With an increasing number of industrial-scale wind turbines around the world, numerous reports are surfacing to suggest that noise, infrasound and stray ...

Feb. 13, 2026 (San Diego’s East County) — As the chill of winter fades, seasonal events are blossoming across San Diego’s inland region. Upcoming festivities in March and April include flower and ...

Image via White House: Bodies of six dead soldiers killed in the Iran conflict are returned to U.S. June 18, 2026 (Washington D.C.) — On June 14, President Donald Trump announced that an agreement has ...

May 29, 2026 (Mt. Laguna) — A sweeping federal plan to manage more than 13,000 acres of the Laguna Mountains in the Cleveland National Forest in San Diego County is being pitched by the federal ...