Vista

A 26-year-old woman from North County San Diego died last Thursday after being swept away by a flash flood while visiting a swimming destination in Hawaii, the Maui County Fire Department said.

Neighbors in Vista are rallying around a beloved cafe owner who was recently diagnosed with bladder cancer. The diagnosis comes as Connie Ambacher struggles to keep her restaurant, Connie’s Café, open amid the pandemic.

A mother, 69-year-old Maria Albanez who lived in Vista, and her daughter, 43-year-old Cristina Albanez who lived in Los Angeles, passed away due to COVID-19 within weeks of each other.

An observant shopper in San Diego’s North County helped lead deputies to a man suspected in a series of sexual assaults at stores around San Marcos and Vista, officials confirmed.

A Vista man who possessed child pornography and also secretly recorded an underage girl showering at his home via hidden camera was sentenced Friday to seven years in federal prison. Following his release from custody, Jeffrey John Lenhof, 41, will also be on supervised release for 10 years, during which he will be required to comply with conditions that include…

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department released a surveillance video of the attempted kidnapping that occurred in a parking lot of a Costco in Vista Saturday to alleviate understandable concern from community members. SDSO said they are aware of social media posts and community concerns following the attempted kidnapping. “It is understandable that anytime an incident involves a child...

The parents who fought off a would-be kidnapper in a Costco parking lot over the weekend say the encounter has them uneasy and looking over their shoulders at all times.

The father of a North County teenager who died from an apparent fentanyl overdose is hoping his beloved daughter’s death will cause young people to think twice about who they trust. Brianna Moore, 18, of Oceanside, graduated from Mission Vista High School with a 4.3 GPA. She ran the Los Angeles Marathon twice, and was a concert violinist. She became…

Two brothers were arrested for battering two cars causing thousands of dollars worth of damage, stealing $2,000 in jewelry, and injuring a driver in a road rage-fueled confrontation in Vista, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday.

There is nothing like the smell of fresh-cut flowers. Flowers are there for the happy times and the sad. They can say “I love you” and sometimes say “I’m sorry.” Many might think the agricultural industry is thriving during the coronavirus pandemic due to the high demand for food, but flower farmers across California are not seeing big business....

A North County vodka distillery has turned into a commercial hand sanitizer company seemingly overnight after its main buyers, bars and restaurants, were ordered to close or cease dine-in services. Co-founders Whit Rigali and Sam Chereskin observed the shortage of hand sanitizer and quickly turned Misadventure and Company into an FDA-approved hand sanitizer manufacturer. “We saw that we make ethanol…