VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.

The predicted number of travelers would be a 3.6% increase from 2024, and would mark the third straight year of record-breaking travel by Southern California residents on Memorial Day weekend.

Heal the Bay has released its annual report card on California beaches. The top 10 dirtiest included one beach in Los Angeles County, one in Baja California, four in San Diego, three in San Mateo County and one in Marin County.

Who knows what the future may hold, but in the meantime the chamber choir has a performance coming up at 4 p.m. Sunday at Christ United Presbyterian Church on Fir Street. “Sliding Glass Doors” will feature music in the tradition of Black Americans including works composed and arranged by gospel scholar Brandon Waddles. Tickets at sacraprofana.org.

This fiscal year, the Border Patrol detected 277 maritime smuggling attempts involving jet skis, panga boats and other vessels.

San Diego is sinking by the millimeter, and new research shows it's more widespread — and riskier — than once suspected. Why it matters: Land subsidence is an invisible but growing threat to urban infrastructure — cracking roads,

Falling tobacco tax revenues are disrupting the future of a state program for health and development services for young children, prompting the San Diego County Board of Supervisors to inject $4.3 million to stabilize the program’s local efforts for another year.

There’s really no way to explain the remarkably enchanting way the indoor river — complete with a waterfall — flows through the downstairs.