Contributions and grants to the San Diego Humane Society, the local nonprofit that provides animal-welfare services and has ...

population and sheer size of California have proven such a trail difficult. It is about 620 miles from the northernmost mission in Sonoma to the southernmost mission, San Diego de Alcalá.

Figs were first introduced to California in 1769 at the Mission San Diego de Alcalá. The dark-purple fig variety that the priests planted has become known as the Mission fig. Today, California is ...

On July 16, 1769, St. Junípero Serra founded Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of eventual 21 California missions. On Jan. 17, 1832, in the vicinity of where Petco Park is today ...

From the founding of Mission San Diego de Alcala in 1769, planning and development has been an activity, a business, and some would say a contact sport. The fact that this topic consistently engages ...

Inside the sanctuary at Mission San Diego de Alcala, candles are lit in tribute. “It’s simple, but it's so meaningful,” said Mark Borza. His daughter attended services at the church growing up.

Will the real creator of San Diego’s french fry-filled California burrito please stand ... Arellano ticks off several dead ends — including Taco de Carlos, a forgotten Carl’s Jr. sub ...

San Diego is the site of Catholicism's first foothold in California, through the founding of Mission San Diego de Alcala in 1769. The diocese serves 1.4 million Catholics, with 96 parishes ...

The dish was developed in the 1960s by the taquerias in the city’s Chicano-heavy Mission ... language—the California burrito has not penetrated the wider world beyond San Diego.

From the explorers and colonists of Southern California to horse and buggy ... (Adobe Stock Photo) On July 16, 1769, Mission San Diego de Alcala was established by Junipero Serra (a Spanish ...