Prominent residents see working together as the No. 1 key to solving the community's problems. No. 2: becoming a separate city. Tell us what you think.
With 2023 in the books and a whole new year to look forward to, the La Jolla Light asked various local leaders about their achievements in the past 12 months and what they hope 2024 has in store.
The San Diego City Council unanimously voted to close a 150-yard stretch of coastline known as Point La Jolla after selfie-taking visitors got too close to the pinnipeds.
Several sea lions charged out of the water towards tourists on a beach in San Diego on Sunday, 23 July. The creatures have been known to exhibit this behaviour at La Jolla cove on previous occasions. In this video, a lifeguard can be heard telling beachgoers to give a male sea lion “plenty of room” before two of the pinnipeds bark and charge towards screaming people on the sand. Local resident Japhet Perez Estrada told Fox 5: “I understand their excitement and they want to get close, but it’s nature. You got to give a distance.”