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California Spending Billions To House Homeless In Hotels Project Homekey is set for a massive expansion in California. The program is repurposing vacant hotels, motels and other unused properties as permanent supportive housing for residents without a place to live. Last year about 6,000 units were created.

 

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COVID-19 By The Numbers

San Diego County Records 1,159 COVID-19 Infections As Surge Continues

A surge in COVID-19 cases in San Diego County continued Thursday, as county public health officials reported another 1,159 cases of the virus and one death.

San Diego Seeing Steady Rise In COVID Hospitalizations

San Diego is seeing it's number of COVID-related hospitalizations increase, mirroring a nationwide trend as the Delta variant continues to tax the county's medical infrastructure.

California To Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines For Health Workers

California will require all of its roughly 2.2 million health care and long term care workers to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by Sept. 30.

How Public Health Experts Protect Their Kids From COVID-19

San Diego experts in public health talk about how they are keeping their own children safe from COVID.

California Spending Billions To House Homeless In Hotels

Project Homekey is set for a massive expansion in California. The program is repurposing vacant hotels, motels and other unused properties as permanent supportive housing for residents without a place to live. Last year about 6,000 units were created.

Northern California Wildfire Now Largest Burning In US

Officials say Northern California’s Dixie Fire grew by 110 square miles between Thursday night and Friday morning, making the blaze the largest wildfire currently raging in the country.

Automakers Pledge To Increase U.S. Electric Vehicle Sales

The moves are big steps toward Biden’s pledge to cut emissions and battle climate change as he pushes to shift the nation away from internal combustion engines and toward battery-powered vehicles.

Port, San Diego Symphony Open Rady Shell At Jacobs Park Concert Venue

The Port of San Diego and the San Diego Symphony Thursday celebrated the debut of The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, touted as the West Coast's first bayside concert venue and park within a park.

Allyson Felix Now Has More Olympic Medals Than Any Female Track Athlete In History

U.S. track star Allyson Felix surpassed the record after winning bronze on Friday in the 400 meters at the Tokyo Olympics.

The Belarusian Coaches Who Tried To Send Sprinter Home Are Dismissed From Olympics

The two coaches had their credentials revoked by the International Olympic Committee four days after they ordered sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya back home for publicly criticizing them.

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