Several weeks after the President of the United States awarded him a Medal of Honor, the Escondido City Council will present a proclamation to Korean War air hero Royce Williams. It will honor the ...

Stephen Clemons, running for Congress in the 48th District, wants “to bring some reasonableness back to politics. I want to put the people first. I don’t want to focus on all the noise. I want to ...

A man who was stabbed Saturday afternoon at 904 S. Hale Ave., and whose assailant—ID’d as a homeless man—Escondido Police searched for, turns out to have been stabbed by his wife. The victim was ...

Last week I took a detailed tour of the construction site for the renovation of the Escondido Public Library. It was built in the 1970s and opened in 1981 based on the aesthetics and technology of the ...

Congressman Scott Peters announced Tuesday he is running for reelection to California’s 50th Congressional District, which includes parts of Escondido. He emphasized his work to lower costs and ...

A new AP program, Career Kickstart, is being introduced at San Pasqual High School. One of only a few pilot programs in the United States, it has been developed by College Board to help students gain ...

For a decade, the contract allowing ICE to use Escondido’s police firing range was a clerical formality. But that era is over. Last year was the deadliest in ICE history, and already in 2026, we have ...

California politicians are at it again — this time with a statewide mileage tax disguised as “planning.” A bill that just moved through the State Assembly, AB 1421, quietly lays the groundwork to tax ...

Saturday, February 7 was the 3rd annual Love Esco Day, the kick-off for a year of volunteer activities. Over 600 people signed up to volunteer cleaning up Escondido and over 1,300 joined in the ...

Escondido City Council at its January 28 meeting, voted 4-1 (Consuelo Martinez voting no) to approve “The Maple” development of 128 units in five stories on what is now a 115 space city-owned parking ...

The Escondido Fire Department announced this week that Insurance Services Office (ISO)- the organization responsible for evaluating fire protection capabilities nationwide—has confirmed the department ...

A 22-year-old Valley Center man was killed Sunday morning when he lost control of his vehicle, collided with a tree and rolled over into a home’s back yard. The crash occurred at 3:24 a.m. on East El ...