For people who’ve gone a lifetime without proper dental care, a healthy smile can be a catalyst for confidence and the beginning of a new chapter. Nonprofit Cura Smiles has donated more than 4,000 dental procedures to San Diegans who lack access to oral care. Founder Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick spent a d

For more than 50 years, Home Start, Inc. has been working to prevent child abuse and neglect by strengthening families and communities. The nonprofit addresses conditions that increase the risk of abuse, such as poverty and unemployment, through education, therapy, and parenting support programs. La

Southern California real estate giant Irvine Company has completed its retreat from downtown San Diego with the sale of its flagship office tower, One America Plaza, to a familiar, high-net-worth buyer. On Tuesday, a joint venture affiliated with Sacramento-based real estate company Saca Development

Feeding San Diego’s Thanksgiving Food Drive November 1-23 San Diego restaurants Cork & Craft, Glass Box, and Zen Modern Asian Bistro are teaming up with Feeding San Diego for a Thanksgiving food drive. The restaurants are offering a discount for donating nonperishable food items, and the food collec

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell for the fourth week in a row to its lowest level in more than a year. Lower mortgage rates boost homebuyers’ purchasing power. They also benefit homeowners eager to refinance their current home loan to a more attracti

With spooky season gearing up for its last hurrah, San Diego has plenty of tricks and treats in store this weekend. Estancia La Jolla will host its Emerald-City esque Beyond the Rainbow party, Rooftop Cinema Club is showing a Brooklyn Nine-Nine Halloween marathon and Nightmare on Normal Street is we

With spooky season gearing up for its last hurrah, San Diego has plenty of tricks and treats in store this weekend. Estancia La Jolla will host its Emerald-City esque Beyond the Rainbow party, Rooftop Cinema Club is showing a Brooklyn Nine-Nine Halloween marathon and Nightmare on Normal Street is we

A proposed ordinance from two San Diego politicians would stop landlords from charging renters “junk fees” that include paying extra for pets and marking up trash collection, as well as offer other protections. San Diego Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera and San Diego County Supervisor Monica Montgomery

More than three years after breaking ground, the developer behind the Riverwalk project is finally in a financial position to erect its first residential and retail buildings on the expansive Mission Valley property that follows Friars Road west of Fashion Valley. Monday, Houston-based real estate i

National home prices are rising at their slowest level in more than two years, and San Diego is one of the markets dragging the average down. The San Diego metropolitan area’s home price decreased 0.66% annually in August, said the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Indices report Tuesday. That placed San Di

San Diego’s taco shops don’t just feed our city, they cultivate culture. In Marshall Williams’ Taco Stand Vernacular photo series, these tortilla temples become a rigorous, black-and-white typology—glowing kiosks and drive-throughs isolated at dusk when the sky goes soft and signage calls to hungry

Work on the first gated community in La Jolla in decades started recently with the clearing of a three-hole golf course and the marketing of unbuilt homes. Foxhill La Jolla developers are busy transforming the site off Romero Drive for multimillion-dollar homes with ocean views. The 32-acre property

November is here, and San Diego is buzzing with events and activities to kick off the holiday season. From community street fairs and local 5Ks to the 250th anniversary celebrations of the Navy and Marine Corps, there’s no shortage of things to do in the city this month. Sports fans can catch the Ra

The Bayview home of celebrated and much published designer/artist Antonio Martins is on the market. Once the workshop and home of plaster artisan and sculptor Cesare Santini in the 1920s, Martins acquired the property in 2017 (you can see its previous incarnation at Curbed SF) and proceeded to resto

A Del Mar mansion has shattered San Diego County records for the most expensive residential property after it sold for $50 million this week. The newly built mansion at 2920 Camino Del Mar went on sale in November 2024 for $75 million but slashed its price to $59.5 million in June before finally sel

The owner of the Costa Verde Center just opposite Westfield UTC is, following the removal of a commercial land-use restriction, now preparing to raze the shuttered strip mall in the coming months to eventually make way for an urban village-style neighborhood with thousands of residences alongside gr

What’s the biggest cause of high housing costs in the nation? Industry insiders answer that government bureaucracy slows or prevents the construction of new housing, compounded by the public’s “not-in-my-backyard” aversion to adding homes in their neighborhoods. Well, one poll shows the typical Amer

For years, San Diegans near our southern beaches have learned to treat the Pacific with suspicion. On a day when the water looks inviting, invisible pathogens may be drifting north from Tijuana, where a water treatment plant struggles to contain its outflow. Swimming in these conditions can feel les

This weekend in San Diego is full of triumphant returns: BirdStock is back for year four with another free, all-day street festival; Rosin Box Project’s Ghost Light Masquerade has another set of spectral performances in store; and the third edition of Villa Manila’s Taste the Tradition promises a de

By Robbie Sequeira, Stateline.org Growing up in a religious family, Florida Republican state Sen. Alexis Calatayud has seen how many church communities are no longer anchored to a single building in the way they used to be. Her small prayer groups take place over chats these days, not necessarily in