Firefighters continued to battle several wind-fueled wildfires in southern California Friday, including a new rapidly expanding blaze that erupted north of San Diego. Over the past five days, the fires have destroyed at least 500 structures and forced about 190,000 people to evacuate their homes, officials said. More than 5,700 firefighters, accompanied by helicopters, are […]
SAN DIEGO – The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Waesche offloaded approximately 18 tons of cocaine in San Diego, Thursday. Several U.S. Coast Guard cutters seized the cocaine in 18 interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from March 2017 through June 2017. “Our nation faces significant threats posed by transnational organized crime networks […]
WASHINGTON — A woman in the western U.S. state of California has been sentenced to 50 months in prison for “conspiring to export and cause the export of fighter jet engines, an unmanned aerial vehicle – commonly known as a drone – and related technical data to… China.” A U.S. Justice Department statement says 45-year-old Wenxia […]
NOAA’s newest research ship, the Reuben Lasker, departs San Diego this week on its first scientific mission that includes surveying gray whales along the West Coast. The survey will also search the Gulf of Alaska for right whales, among the most rare and endangered whales on Earth. The expedition is a collaboration between the Southwest […]