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Fleet Week San Diego is an annual celebration honoring the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, run by the San Diego Fleet Week Foundation, which was founded in 2001. The 2025 edition was sharply reduced by a federal government shutdown, and public events at Broadway Pier were canceled. The 2026 edition, the 25th, runs Nov. 1-15, with public ship tours and displays returning to Broadway Pier Nov. 13-15.
SANDAG and Caltrans are building the Batiquitos Lagoon Double Track project, a 0.6-mile segment of the North Coast Corridor program on the LOSSAN rail corridor between La Costa Avenue in Encinitas and Avenida Encinas in Carlsbad. The project replaces a 1940s wooden trestle with a concrete double-track bridge. Construction began in 2024 and the $166 million project is expected to finish in 2028.
The Salvation Army's former Centre City Community Corps building at 7th Avenue and F Street in East Village, downtown San Diego, was demolished about two weeks before a Nov. 9, 2026 groundbreaking. It will be replaced by The Rady Center, a roughly 200,000-square-foot shelter, housing and services complex named for donors Ernest and Evelyn Rady. The project was first publicized in April 2025 with demolition and groundbreaking slated for fall 2026.
The CPUC is holding Public Participation Hearings on the General Rate Case applications of Southern California Gas Company and San Diego Gas & Electric. The utilities seek to update revenue requirements and base rates effective January 1, 2028, with further changes proposed for 2028 through 2030. The hearings let customers comment directly to the CPUC. The SDG&E in-person hearings are at Santee City Hall.
On Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, a fire broke out in an abandoned two-story commercial building on Ocean View Boulevard near 36th Street in San Diego's Mountain View neighborhood. The building had been red-tagged after earlier fires and is the subject of a city nuisance lawsuit against the family trust that owns it. Firefighters fought the blaze defensively because the structure was unsafe to enter.
Google announced in early November 2026 that it will change how AI features and Search work for K-12 student accounts starting in January. Districts that want to keep Google Search must accept AI-integrated search, while the separate Gemini products can be switched off. The change lands as California districts such as Los Angeles Unified and San Diego Unified debate limits on generative AI in classrooms.
In May 2025 a panga carrying 19 people from Mexico capsized about 200 yards off Del Mar, California, killing four people, including two children from India. Then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem publicly urged the Justice Department to seek the death penalty for the pilots, but prosecutors did not. The two pilots pleaded guilty in April 2026 and were sentenced on November 9, 2026.