u/Choobeen

Against the backdrop of California’s picturesque, world-renowned coastal views along Highway 1, tourists are returning in considerable numbers from Carmel to Cambria—fueling a revitalized regional economy in the months after Caltrans fully reopened the iconic corridor. The economic upturn is expected to continue as visitors flock to the coast for Memorial Day recreation.

Biometric technology converts the images into unique numerical values, which are compared to find a match. Except in cases where data needs to be maintained for legal purposes, Disneyland says it deletes all numerical values within 30 days of creation. Guests are able to opt out by using entrance lanes that do not employ facial recognition technology. These feature overhead signage showing a person with a diagonal strikethrough.

May 2026

General Dynamics NASSCO has received $856 million in funding to build T-AO 217, the latest ship in the U.S. Navy’s John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler program.

The funding is part of an eight-ship block-buy contract awarded in September 2024 covering T-AO 214 through T-AO 221. NASSCO is now under contract to build 17 of the Navy’s planned 20 oilers and has delivered five to date. 

May 2026 -- Other reports:

https://www.marinelog.com/shipbuilding/shipyards/shipyard-news/navy-awards-gd-nassco-856m-for-t-ao-217-construction

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/19/san-diegos-general-dynamics-nassco-awarded-856-million-to-build-navy-fuel-ship

San Diego’s public transit system is heading toward a fiscal cliff, and Coronado leaders have mixed opinions about handing it a lifeline or letting it figure things out on its own.

It took two votes and about an hour of debate for the Coronado City Council to land somewhere in the middle on whether to support a regional transit funding bill.

May 18, 2026, by Megan Kitt

A number has been making the rounds lately on Pac-12 forums and college sports Twitter: $13 million per school. For SDSU fans who’ve spent years watching the Mountain West get lapped financially, it reads like proof the rebuilt Pac-12 is about to operate on a completely different planet than the league they’re leaving behind.

The reality, after sifting through the financial disclosures tied to Washington State and Oregon State and the public reporting on the conference’s media negotiations, is messier than that. The rebuilt Pac-12 probably will generate meaningfully more money than the Mountain West did. But somewhere along the way, a long-term ceiling got passed around as a confirmed annual check.

May 18, 2026

The SoFi Stadium is hosting 8 World Cup matches.

The agenda for this week’s meeting of the Coronado City Council includes a ballot measure to increase height limits for a stretch of Orange Avenue, a look at next year’s budget, a final vote on a citywide kratom ban, and more.

The meeting is at 4 p.m. on May 19 in the City Council Chamber at 1825 Strand Way.

A November ballot measure to raise building heights in the R-4 zone

The meeting’s most consequential item asks the council to formally call the November 3, 2026, General Municipal Election and place a ballot measure before voters that would raise the maximum allowable height for multifamily developments in the R-4 zone — a stretch of Orange Avenue between Second and Eighth Streets — from three stories and 35 feet to four stories and 42 feet.

The current height limit dates to 1972, when Coronado voters approved Proposition R.

Related links:

https://pub-coronado.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=a597a602-29dd-4993-a954-a1ca246a6735&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English

https://www.coronado.ca.us/196/Coronado-TV

Game 47, 2026: Padres improve to 29-18.

SAN DIEGO — The Dodgers entered the late innings Monday in an unenviable position: trailing the Padres, whose biggest strength is their bullpen.

“When they have a lead they don’t relinquish it too often,” manager Dave Roberts said after the Dodgers’ 1-0 loss Monday. “You know the numbers — when they’re ahead in the seventh inning they don’t lose. You do have to be a little more aggressive and capitalize when you do get those chances.”

Including Monday, the Padres are 20-2 when leading after six innings, 21-1 when leading after seven, and they have a perfect 22-0 record when leading after eight.

Even when Padres closer Mason Miller got off to an uncharacteristically wild start in the ninth inning Monday, the Dodgers failed to capitalize.

He walked Freddie Freeman and Kyle Tucker on nine pitches. And the next three batters — Will Smith, Max Muncy and Andy Pages — all have proven their ability to do damage in clutch moments.

But it was Miller on the mound, a rare reliever who could actually challenge for the Cy Young Award.

“In this kind of series, you know you’re going to have close games,” Freeman said after the game. “And we just couldn’t get it done.”

Miller got out of the jam with a fly out, strikeout and ground ball, and notched his league-leading 15th save.

“We still had really good at-bats,” Freeman said. “There’s a silver lining to it. Scoring off Mason is going to be really hard to do. It’s going to take one of those kinds of innings where you can maybe walk a couple of guys and get a bloop. Not much squaring up going on against him.

“But we had an opportunity, maybe with him throwing a lot of pitches might make him be down next game. You just try to have little wins.”

The Dodgers could also avoid him by claiming a lead. On Monday, Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto held the Padres to three hits and one run — Miguel Andujar’s first-inning homer.

But the Dodgers’ offense, which scored 31 runs in a three-game series against the Angels, only managed four hits off Padres starting pitcher Michael King, and only one in the first five innings.

“You’re trying to cover realistically 30 inches,” Freeman said. “Because you have ball-to-strike pitches — you’ve got backdoor sliders that are starting as balls coming back, you’ve got front-door sinkers for lefties. So it’s not just the whole plate you’re worried about; you’re going to worry about a whole lot of different things. … He had all of it working tonight.”

May 18, 2026

Up next

Griffin Canning (0-2, 10.64 ERA) 👀 will attempt to bounce back from consecutive rough outings for the Padres on Tuesday. Emmet Sheehan (3-1, 4.54 ERA) pitches for the Dodgers.

Another report:

https://www.mlb.com/padres/news/padres-claim-nl-west-lead-with-win-over-dodgers

A company that sought a government contract to provide air purifiers to Tijuana River Valley residents says the county instead purchased purifiers that will offer residents little to no relief from the tainted air emanating from the polluted waterway.

In a newly-filed court petition, attorneys for Medify Air are asking a judge to throw out the $26.8 million contract San Diego County awarded to Oransi LLC for tens of thousands of portable air purifiers.

The county’s push to deliver 30,000 air purifiers is part of its plan to provide relief to South Bay residents and business owners forced to breathe in the noxious hydrogen sulfide that rises from the polluted waterway. The purifiers would act as a temporary, partial solution while the United States and Mexico attempt to fix aging and inadequate infrastructure at the transboundary water treatment plant.

In the non-conformed complaint, obtained by Times of San Diego, Medify Air says the county used vague language in its request for bids and relied on unverified claims in order to select the lowest bidder. Medify Air’s air purifier bid, at $27.1 million, was more expensive than Oransi’s $26.8 million offer.

Medify Air argues the county imposed mandatory performance metrics but failed to put in place a way to verify whether purifiers improve air quality. The company’s lawsuit also claims the selected purifiers will not meet guidelines for noise and air pollution requirements.

“The County issued a solicitation imposing mandatory performance requirements, yet failed to define how compliance would be measured,” the lawsuit reads. “That approach eliminated any objective basis for determining responsiveness and rendered the award decision unsupported by substantial evidence.”

The court petition claims the county “ignored” data and abused its discretion by accepting the lower bid.

The company is asking a judge to order the county to abandon the contract and restart the bidding process.

The petition is not the first issue the county has had in trying to improve air quality by distributing air purifiers near the Tijuana River.

Last year, as reported by Times of San Diego, county workers had to collect 400 air purifiers they had distributed because the purifiers lacked the necessary filters to clean the gases in the air.

Those purifiers lacked the necessary potassium permanganate and charcoal to effectively filter toxic gases.

San Diego County declined to comment due to the pending litigation.

By Dorian Hargrove • May 17, 2026

Related article:

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/10k-air-purifiers-south-bay-residents/3967285

The U.S. Navy has confirmed plans to procure the first four Block VII Virginia-class submarines in FY2030-FY2031, according to its FY2027 30-year shipbuilding plan released on May 8, 2026, extending production of America’s primary attack submarine well into the 2040s as delays continue to affect the future SSN(X) program. The decision highlights how the Virginia-class has evolved from a post-Cold War hunter-killer submarine into a central platform for long-range strike, covert ISR, seabed warfare, and Indo-Pacific deterrence at a time when U.S. submarine capacity faces mounting pressure from China, Russia, and industrial shortfalls.

The collision occurred around 12:40 a.m. Friday (5.15.2026) near the intersection of Camino Del Rio West and Kurtz Street. The driver fled the scene immediately after the crash. Police do not currently have a description of the suspect nor the vehicle involved. Authorities urged anyone with information regarding the collision to call the SDPD or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.

In wind tunnel tests at the University of Tsukuba (Japan), we measured something called the drag coefficient, which is a way of describing how much air resistance a ball experiences as it moves.

Using this data, we gained insights into how the airflow changes around the ball after it is kicked. The tests helped identify the drag crisis, the speed range in which changes in the boundary layer and flow separation produce a sharp change in drag, which can alter the ball's acceleration, trajectory and range.

We found that the Trionda is effectively rougher than those predecessors.

Trionda reaches its drag crisis at a lower speed, at about 27 mph (43 kph). That is below the roughly 31–40 mph (50–65 kph) range for Al Rihla, Telstar 18 and Brazuca, and far below Jabulani's roughly 49–60 mph (79–97 kph) range, depending on orientation.

Why does all that matter? Because a ball can feel ordinary off the boot and still behave differently in flight. When the drag crisis occurs in the middle of game-relevant speeds, small changes in launch speed, orientation or spin can shift the ball from one aerodynamic regime to another.

That was Jabulani's problem. Once kicked with little spin, it had a tendency to slow down too much as it passed through its critical-speed range.

Trionda does not look like that kind of ball. It has a more steady and consistent drag coefficient in the range of speeds associated with corner kicks and free kicks.

But there is a trade-off. Our measurements also showed that once Trionda enters the higher-speed, turbulent-flow regime, its drag coefficients are somewhat larger than those of Brazuca, Telstar 18 and Al Rihla.

In plain language, that suggests a hard-hit long ball may lose a little range.

In our simulations, the difference is not huge. But it is large enough that players may notice long kicks coming up a few meters short.

May 17, 2026

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/16/6/2808