San Ysidro’s PedWest border crossing is back open and San Diego’s business community is happy that border traffic can resume. In other news, there tends to be more need for blood this time of the year and blood drives across San Diego County are looking to fill that gap. Plus, San Diego's planned facility to recycle wastewater is the most expensive capital project in the city’s history, and this week, the project goes underwater at the Miramar Reservoir.
A new state law lets people subdivide ADUs into separate properties and sell them. But the city would have to pass an ordinance to allow it. Then, MTS is planning to increase bus and trolley frequencies. Plus, KPBS staff give their picks for the top songs of 2023.
From changes in migration to a memorable Tijuana little league baseball team, the San Diego-Tijuana border region has been the scene for many memorable stories in 2023.
Homeland Security is investigating the Jacumba migrant camps for potential civil rights concerns. Then, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria is calling for substantial changes to the city’s ordinance that regulates the use of surveillance technology, but privacy rights advocates are pushing back. Plus, the Moonlight Amphitheater in Vista's Brengle Terrace Park has been transformed into a winter wonderland.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has inked contracts with three companies to add to the dozens of surveillance towers that stretch from the San Ysidro Port of Entry to the northern edge of San Diego County.