By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business WriterThe average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. edged higher this week, ending a seven-week slide that helped ease borrowing costs for home shoppers leading into the spring homebuying season.Related ArticlesBusiness | Oceanside considers changes to appeals process

It’s been an ugly few days in the stock market as investors suddenly grew nervous about brewing trade wars, federal job cuts, reheated inflation and overall economic anxieties.As a result, talk about a potential recession is percolating and share prices are tumbling. Could an extended bout of Wall S

A controversial proposed church in Del Cerro was restored Tuesday night after previously being denied.After a three-hour meeting, the San Diego City Council voted 5-4 to approve the 54,476-square-foot All Peoples Church only a year after rejecting it on land-use grounds.Neighbors had fought against

This weekend in San Diego brings compelling art exhibitions, decadent dinners, and St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Though the holiday doesn’t officially arrive until Monday, partying will start Saturday with the San Diego Leprechaun Run, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival, and ShamROCK. Word to

Pasadena is the nation’s second-hardest spot to find a rental, another example of how January’s firestorm is altering the region’s real estate markets.My trusty spreadsheet looked at ApartmentList’s monthly rental vacancy report for 149 big U.S. cities, including six in Southern California. The stud

The city of San Marcos, nestled along Highway 78 between Escondido and Vista, has an agricultural heritage dating back to the 1850s centered around wine, honey, poultry and dairy production. While San Marcos still has remnants of those roots (such as the family-run Hollandia Dairy), it has now evolv

In terms of design and a radical rethinking of Postwar urbanism, the Modernique Homes by the pioneering L.A. Modernist Gregory Ain were groundbreaking in their day—and one of them is on the market and open this weekend. Having worked with Richard Neutra for years and fully invested in California’s u

“I don’t sleep,” admits southeast San Diego native Joann Mamuyac. It’s the only explanation for how she maintains her objectively bonkers schedule: She and her partner, Brittani Lusain, are both professional tackle football players with the San Diego Rebellion, our local franchise of the Women’s Nat

The Los Angeles wildfires are amplifying many of the usual steep challenges for those who want to build or buy new homes in the region.January’s firestorm destroyed or damaged more than 12,000 structures around Altadena and Pacific Palisades. To gauge how that changes the real estate game for local

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) — Mortgage rates have been mostly declining in recent weeks, helping encourage prospective home shoppers just as the spring homebuying season gets going.But the same factors that have pulled mortgage rates to their lowest level since December — signs

Mission Hills may be only a few miles from downtown San Diego, but it’s nearer to nature than often meets the eye. Matthew and April Segal and their children Oliver and Eleanor got up close with wildlife when they made their move north from Little Italy to their new concrete-and-glass home, designed

Every year, when winter swells bring San Diego’s best waves to their fullest potential, local surfers flood the lineups of popular spots like Black’s and Swami’s. But some of the heaviest and most dangerous surf lies further south, off the coast of Imperial Beach. The area’s crown jewel, Tijuana Slo

A reader recently reached out to tell me that a few weekends ago, she went to Joshua Tree National Park for a weekend of hiking and camping. This was after the news that the federal government was cutting funding to national parks, and that Joshua Tree would lay off six employees, leaving its job va

The city of San Diego is ready to negotiate with the nonprofit that has long sought to bring Balboa Park’s nearly 90-year-old Starlight Bowl back to life after more than 14 years of dormancy. But there’s an unexpected caveat that puts in question the group’s ability to actually use the famous-but-de

Star Trek was right—according to San Diego–based aerospace manufacturer Natilus, a more sustainable aircraft looks like something straight out of sci-fi.CEO Aleksey Matyushev co-founded Natilus in 2016 with his longtime friend Anatoly Star after the two noticed inefficiencies with airfreight cargos.

In the 2010s, pickleball started to emerge as a new way for people to enjoy racquet sports without the physical demands of other such activities like tennis or racquetball. Compared to tennis, it offered a slower pace, smaller courts, and even had simpler rules. During the pandemic, pickleball picke

If San Marcos–born company Plantible has its way, the story of food’s future will begin with two friends who met as kids in the Netherlands. Tony Martens Fekini was in agricultural commodity trading. Maurits van de Ven was an investment banker—but they wanted more. Could they start a company togethe

According to the American College of Sports Medicine, San Diego ranks among the nation’s top 15 fittest big cities. While we appreciate the qualitative proof, one only has to peek outside any given window in the city to see a swath of San Diegans jogging, biking, dog-walking, or taking to the seas w

California homeowners don’t seem to think much about flood risks with few insured against watery storm damage.My trusty spreadsheet examined flood insurance coverage stats compiled by ValuePenguin by LendingTree, tracking the dominant seller of this coverage: the federal government’s National Flood

San Diego FC’s first-ever home game, and the energy around it, mimicked Hirving “Chucky” Lozano’s left hamstring: A solid start, with a less-than-ideal finish.In the parking lots around Snapdragon Stadium, fans arrived as early as five hours before kickoff. Walking past rows of cars sounded like the