South Bay

An update Thursday by officials about the wastewater treatment improvements should bring good news to long suffering south coastal residents. NBC 7’s Joe Little was in Coronado and has more on the situation as summer season fast approaches.

NBC 7’s Joey Safchik spoke with South Bay supporters of each candidate in the runoff election.

Authorities seized nearly 8,000 pounds of methamphetamine in the South Bay area of San Diego County, it was announced Wednesday.

The Senator’s visit follows a UC San Diego report revealing toxic chemicals from the Tijuana River and Imperial Beach waters are also airborne through ocean spray. NBC 7’s Joe Little reports.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, visited Imperial Beach Thursday to see the Tijuana River sewage pollution crisis, the latest in a line of political officials to observe the trans-border issue in person.

The South Bay Union school board saved two schools but is still moving forward to shut down Central Elementary. NBC 7’s Dave Summers reports.

The school board is expected to vote on the possible closure of Berry, Central and Sunnyslope Elementary schools. NBC 7’s Dana Williams reports.

Facing the difficult decision whether to close three of its 11 elementary schools, the South Bay Union School District on Wednesday managed to save two — at least for now.

A fire broke out inside a boarded-up home near Otay Mesa, and neighbors say they weren’t surprised.

It was a tiny facility that opened in a farm field 50 years ago. NBC 7’s Joe Little spoke with a nurse who’s been there for 43 of them.

Arson is suspected in a fire that started Tuesday morning at a boarded-up home long known as a nuisance house in the South Bay.

Chula Vista teenager Ivanna Ruiz is getting ready to graduate from Olympian High School and Southwestern College. She is also running track and field for a title in the 400 meters. NBC 7’s Joe Little shares her story.

Initial plans to expand the plant from processing 25 million to 35 million gallons of water per day were scheduled to take two years but now may take as little as 100 days, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little.

An expansion to the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant could be just 100 days away, according to an announcement by two federal agencies Tuesday.

The catalyst project is expected to help generate $475 million for the local economy every year, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little.

Sewage flow across the U.S.-Mexico border may temporarily increase in the Tijuana River Valley as part of a sewer line-repair project in Mexico starting next week. In a news release issued Friday, the county Air Pollution Control District announced the project could also increase pollution at South County beaches, as untreated wastewater is diverted south of the border. Now...

With the papal conclave set to begin on Wednesday, NBC 7’s Todd Strain spoke to San Diegans who are about to watch the next chapter of the Catholic Church begin.

Tijuana’s wastewater treatment plant has only been treating sewage for about two weeks, but there’s hope South Bay beaches could welcome people back into the water.

The administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency will inspect the Tijuana River Valley on Tuesday to address the cross-border sewage crisis. NBC 7’s Joe Little explains.

The fire, which may have sparked in a homeless encampment, was quickly under control.