The Southern California Indigenous Culture & Art Festival takes place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 19, at Escondido’s Grape Day Park, 321 N. Broadway.. The event is free and open to the public. It’s an ...

The Escondido Union School District has announced the District Employees of the Year: ELA/Reading teacher Cassandra Johnson of Hidden Valley Middle School is EUSD’s Teacher of the Year-Middle School.

San Pasqual High School’s robotics team, the SuperNURDs, has clinched another major victory, winning their second regional competition at the San Diego Regional hosted by UCSD this past weekend. The ...

The 26th Annual Walk for the Animals was held at Kit Carson Park on Saturday March 22, and was attended by thousands of people and pets. The event was put on by the San Diego Humane Society, which ...

One of the biggest victories we had last year for common sense was defeating the per-mile tax here in San Diego County. SANDAG — our regional transportation board — was pushing a proposal to charge ...

In the heart of downtown Escondido, a small coffee shop on Grand Avenue has become the unexpected focus of community attention. What sparked the attention? One critical Facebook post and a groundswell ...

Several admirable and praiseworthy organizations in Escondido are doing exceedingly important work and impacting the community in very positive ways. Groups not only well intentioned but who also ...

Several people were arrested Wednesday, March 26 due to criminal activity at a large homeless encampment in Harmony Grove in an area encompassing both unincorporated Escondido and the City of ...

On Thursday March 27, at the corner of Fig St. & Farr Ave., Escondido, the family of Angel Ornelas Ponce held a vigil and remembrance honoring the life of the 15-year-old who died after a hit and run ...

I write this column on Sundays and I thought about an event begun recently at Kit Carson Park called Cars and Coffee. Sounds like a good combination of favorites—what with all the coffee shops popping ...

Tuesday, April 1, the City of Escondido began collecting an additional one cent in sales tax, raising the total that local merchants charge to 8.75%—good for the next 20 years. We asked a few ...

Sunday afternoon, March 30, a helicopter that lost power landed on a frontage road adjacent to I-15 in unincorporated Escondido. Although the chopper didn’t actually land on the interstate, it did ...