Born in Imperial Beach, Zepeda grew up between San Diego, Tijuana, and Guadalajara and started cooking professionally in her late teens, working steadily in San Diego kitchens and training with James Beard Award winner Gavin Kaysen before her breakout turn as chef de cuisine at Javier Plascencia’s James Beard Award-nominated Bracero during its thrilling but all-too-short tenure in Little Italy.

A government watchdog for the Department of Defense found that Navy SEAL candidates frequently train in sewage-tainted waters where pollution from Tijuana regularly fouls South County shorelines, resulting in hundreds of cases of acute gastrointestinal illnesses.

The weekend has arrived, which means it’s time to get out and about to enjoy all that San Diego has to offer. For those still narrowing down plans, the calendar for the region is looking full. From gardening events to theater and sports,

Velázquez believes strong ties within the San Diego-Tijuana region bond people who share a culture and traditions in spite of the border and politics.

All We Carry is an 87 ½ -minute documentary distributed for sale by Good Docs that follows Honduran refugees through Mexico to their detention at the Tijuana/ San Diego border and later, as adoptees of a Seattle,

A suspected member of the notorious Tijuana-based enforcement group Los Cabos was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Thursday.

The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.

"People suffer a lot when they are deported. Sometimes they don’t even speak Spanish. They’ve spent their whole lives in the United States."

A nonprofit organization called Casa de Luz is offering a new safe haven for LGBTQ+ refugees at the border. The shelter, which opened Friday afternoon, will provide 23 rooms and six bathrooms, along with mental health and medical assistance.

A suspected member of the notorious Tijuana-based enforcement group Los Cabos was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Thursday.

San Diego FC will play its first-ever home match at Snapdragon Stadium this Saturday, March 1, against St. Louis City.

SAN DIEGO ( Border Report) — Tijuana’s Grupo Firme, a widely popular musical group throughout Latin America, has canceled its upcoming concert in Mazatlán after receiving death threats from a cartel. On Tuesday, a severed human head was found in a plastic box along with a “narco banner” on a bridge threatening the band.