Category: Health

San Diego Veterans For Peace, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7420, and supporters and friends will be hosting a rally and press conference in front of the LaJolla VA Hospital, 3350 LaJolla Village Drive, SD, CA 92161 from 3 to 4 PM on Friday, Sept 5th.

UPDATED: Victim Was Well-Known, Unhoused and a Beloved member of the Voltaire Street Community.>UPDATED: There is a crucial update to this story. The woman who was initially thought to be a pedestrian is now being reported as a passenger in one of the cars involved in the crash.

Here is original story:
During the early hours of Saturday morning, drivers coming out of OB and Point Loma were confronted with the closure of the lane on their side of the bridge over San Diego River. Police had shut down a lot of the roadway. Turns out there had been a two-car accident around midnight – a hit and run actually – around the 100 block of Sea World Drive.

Police conducted their initial investigation and determined that one of the drivers, who was driving a 2013 Honda, had rear-ended another vehicle, pushing it forward and then had taken off. That Honda was later found, but the driver has not been located. And the roadway was cleared two hours later, at around 2 a.m. This according 7SanDiego.

by Neal Putnam / Times of San Diego – Peninsula Beacon / Aug. 29, 2025

A Jan. 20, 2026, trial date has been set for a woman who was ordered to stand trial on charges she stabbed two men in Ocean Beach following an angry incident.

Jana Nicole Halaska, 29, was ordered to stand trial for the attempted murder of Gabriel Millan and assault with a deadly weapon on Christopher Abrahamsen. Both men testified against her on Aug. 25.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Peter Deddeh conducted the preliminary hearing on Aug. 25. Halaska pleaded not guilty at the end of the hearing, and she waived her right to have a speedy trial.

A GoFundMe request was set up for both men shortly after the April 12 incident, which took place at 1:06 a.m. at Bacon Street and Newport Avenue. Both men were strangers to Halaska, but Milan had a brief argument with one woman and kicked her, according to a court document.

By Samantha Mason

Today, I journeyed down to Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. It was rainy and muggy out, and I felt like I was in Florida rather than Ocean Beach. I wanted to take advantage of the rain and go back out to explore some of the businesses on OB’s main north-south avenue.

I arrived at noon on Thursday afternoon, and scored a street parking spot. (I’ll consider this a redemption from my “Ocean Beach Has The Character I’ve Been Missing” story, where I embarrassingly admitted to paying over $20 for parking in –what am I, a tourist?)

Blendies (1830 Sunset Cliffs Blvd)

My first stop was Blendies, a small smoothie and acai bowl spot on the corner of Sunset Cliffs and Niagara Ave. I met a woman behind the counter named Jessie, who is one of the business partners. She told me Blendies has only been open for a month, and they also own Social Thai Kitchen next door. It’s a family business, and the inspiration to open the location came from their love of cafe culture.

In June 2021, Kobe La was attacked during an argument over a fire pit.

By Melissa Mecija / 10News / August 28, 2025

More than four years after an attack in Ocean Beach left Kobe La with serious injuries, the civil case he filed is finally over as a judge recently awarded La more than $700,000.

La was just 22 at the time, excited to be with friends for the first time since restrictions were relaxed during the pandemic.

Their celebration came to an end when a man approached them claiming La and his friends stole his spot.

La said they could share, but the man returned with a group of friends and attacked them, while also yelling racial slurs.

by MacKenzie Elmer/ Voice of San Diego / August 27, 2025

One often wonders while strolling atop the bluffs at Sunset Cliffs: Will today be the day the path crumbles into the sea?

Determined to enjoy the view, families and elderly couples navigate a dwindling, dusty trail along Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. Exercisers dart into the road or hurdle barriers where erosion has already consumed any remaining clifftop.

[Here’s the City’s Coastal Resiliency Masterplan]

Knowing the ocean will eventually rise and more of the cliffs will fall, the city of San Diego plans to epically change how people use this peninsula’s crown jewel.

Namely, parking lots have got to move off the cliff’s edge and onto the street, making more space for natural land and hiking trails, the city’s plan says. On Sunset Cliffs at Monaco Street, traffic would switch to one-way heading south leaving one lane for parking and a protected walkway. (A southbound direction is the preference of emergency responders, I’m told.)

That’s a lot of reshuffling. Finding parking on a Sunday before sunset is already a battle royale even with parking available on both sides of the now two-lane street. The city is also leaving open the option of adding meters to shifted street parking, according to a presentation to City Council’s Environment Committee.

Reader Supported News / Aug. 27, 2025

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Complicating Donald J. Trump’s plan to send troops to Chicago, on Tuesday thousands of National Guard members called in sick with bone spurs.

The White House was plunged into chaos after receiving over seven thousand notes from guardsmen’s podiatrists, sources said.

An enlarged tree branch fell in the children’s park at Ebers and Saratoga on Sunday, August 10, which could’ve seriously injured or even killed any of the 12 toddlers playing at the park that day had they been right underneath it.

A local parent immediately contacted the city — as well as the Rag about this. He had one question: “Have recent city budget cuts affected tree maintenance and surveillance at public parks?” He wrote:

This is unacceptable, this is the only child’s park in Ocean Beach. This deserves more awareness and exposure.

He wrote:

My wife and I are very shook by what we saw (we saw it fall in real time) Because they were many children, including our own, in that area minutes prior. We have many family pictures picnicking under that tree as well. It just adds to a growing sentiment we have about the city falling short in protecting its residents, including its most vulnerable—children.

By Blake Nelson / The San Diego Union-Tribune / August 26, 2025 

Several residents of San Diego’s designated camping areas for homeless people are suing to overhaul the program, alleging that both lots are dirty, lack quality food and remain unequipped to aid those with disabilities.

The safe sleeping sites hold hundreds of two-person tents near Balboa Park. Each location is “rodent infested” and a “fire hazard,” according to the lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court. They are also host to “excessive and dangerous heat” during part of the year as well as “cold and flooding in the winter,” weather that often leaves belongings “saturated with mold.”

All in all, “living conditions in the Camps” are “untenable, seriously threatening and aggravating mental and physical health,” the filing says.

The lawsuit asks a court to force reforms on the effort.

by Drew Sitton / Times of San Diego  / Aug. 24, 2025

A controversial 453-unit housing development has been unanimously approved by the San Diego County Planning Commission in Harmony Grove, an unincorporated rural residential area in North County sandwiched between Escondido and San Marcos.

Several neighbors spoke out at the meeting over the controversial proposal because it does not include a secondary access road to escape wildfires.

They fear entrapment if a wildfire came from the direction of the single dead-end road.

Winding approval
The project, Harmony Grove Village South, had been before the commission in 2018 and later approved by the Board of Supervisors.

However, CEQA litigation from the Sierra Club, residents and other parties had delayed construction.

The board rescinded approval in 2022 after a trial court sided with residents. However, a state appellate court then found all but one aspect of the project complied with CEQA.

The same project as in 2018 is now headed back before the board for the third time,

By Abbie Black / CBS8 / August 15, 2025

What appears to be pristine water in San Diego Bay is hiding a disturbing secret beneath the surface.

University of San Diego graduate students working with a local company have discovered alarming levels of heavy metals, microplastics and invasive species in Mission Bay and San Diego Bay using innovative cleanup booms made from recycled materials.

The partnership, called 24/7 Blue, pairs USD students with San Diego-based Earthwise Sorbents to test sustainable cleanup technology that could serve as a model for ports and marinas nationwide.

“It’s unbelievable the amount of material that we are picking up,” said Dr. Michel Boudrias, who chairs USD’s sustainability task force. “We’re picking up 30 times the amount of heavy metals that are typically out there.”

The 5-pound, 10-foot booms are placed in local waters for two to three months before being replaced. When flipped over, the seemingly clean-looking devices reveal the extent of contamination lurking in San Diego’s waterways.