The San Diego region will receive $16.9 million from the Department of Homeland Security as part of the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant program.

A downtown advocacy group would like to see the San Diego City Council allocate $25,000 for the continued operation of six portable toilets in the East Village until more permanent public restrooms arrive in February.

The value of the San Diego employees’ pension fund last week breached the $6 billion mark for the first time, fueled by the rebound of the financial and real estate markets.

Construction crews moved traffic lanes on Harbor Drive approximately 60 feet to the east between the Navy and B Street piers on Monday, as progress continues on the North Embarcadero Visionary Plan Phase 1 project.

San Diego attorneys Patricia Guerrero and Michael J. Popkins have been appointed to San Diego Superior Court judgeships by Gov. Jerry Brown, it was announced Tuesday.

Bolstered by $13 million in new revenues and cost savings, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner released a revised budget that provides funding for more lifeguards, police dispatchers, street lights and road repair, as well as year-round support for the veterans' homeless shelter.

The San Diego City Council unanimously approved the San Diego River Park Master Plan Monday.

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The construction front is light this week at municipalities, with few upcoming projects.

When it opens in July, Pier South will join the Hotel del Coronado as the second of only two hotels in San Diego built on the beach.

Located in the East Village on the Park-to-Bay promenade, the new Central Library designed by Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA/Tucker Sadler Architects, symbolically unites the regional architecture of the past to the architecture of the present in a commitment to the city’s future.

Friday is the deadline for bidder prequalification for the new downtown San Diego Central Courthouse, a 22-story, 71-courtroom endeavor that is the state’s largest courthouse construction project. The construction site is on 1.4 acres encompassed by West C, Union, West B and State streets.

The Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa may be one of the sites selected to accommodate prisoners currently housed in a Riverside prison that will close in 2016. If it happens, it will get a new building that can house 800 inmates.

The city of Carlsbad has released its proposed Capital Improvement Program, which includes $43 million in future construction work for the upcoming fiscal year.

Facing the growing likelihood of a Sacramento-imposed deadline, members of the San Diego City Council have begun laying the groundwork for a proposal that would require all city contractors to pay prevailing wage rates to their workers.

Through a series of three votes, the Board of Supervisors adopted two ordinances Wednesday that could speed up decisions on wind turbine development in the county and certified the environmental impact report relating to the changes.

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) employs about 5,000 people in San Diego, but thanks to sequestration budget-tightening, that number won't rise anytime soon.

Pledging to find new ways to bring artistic experiences to the general public, Denise Montgomery, a former director of the Denver Cultural Affairs Office, was named on Tuesday as the city’s new executive director for arts and culture.

For the time being, a possible expansion of the Property Assessed Clean Energy financing program was put to a halt Tuesday, leaving the program with no set plan to change or expand it.

The San Diego City Council unanimously passed the sidewalk cafe ordinance on a unanimous vote Tuesday.