The Carlsbad Unified school board held a special meeting Wednesday to approve the district budget, but the board president was absent.

Mary, the tunnel boring machine, is expected to finish the second tunnel by September.

A Carlsbad restaurant – and its "moveable feast" – has been awarded a Michelin star for its fresh take on California cuisine.

Border Patrol says the tunnel featured electrical wiring, lighting, and ventilation systems. It's believed the tunnel was used to transport large amounts of contraband.

Agents have located and disabled an unfinished tunnel stretching from Tijuana into Otay Mesa, extending more than 1,000 feet into the U.S.

But for purposes of acting as a feedstock for desalination, seawater can be considered a simple sodium chloride solution where sodium anions and chloride cations are almost completely dissociated.

The council voted 5-2 to approve permits for Permian Resources Operating to drill 10 wells and build a tank battery within city limits.