Jordan Ingram

5 days ago | thecoastnews.com | Jordan Ingram

ENCINITAS — Aryana Mahasseni, a student at Carlsbad High School, has taken first place in the inaugural Teen Writing Contest, a regional competition that asked young authors to envision how they would spend $10 million to improve their communities. The contest, presented by Ms. Oceanside Real Estate in partnership with The Coast News and Write Away Books, was open to all 11th- and 12th-grade students in North County San Diego.

1 week ago | thecoastnews.com | Jordan Ingram

When Cardiff resident David Richardson first floated the idea of developing offshore nuclear power in 1981, his boss, a nuclear engineer at University Mechanical, wasn’t thrilled. The inspiration for Richardson’s floating nuclear power plant came after reading a news article about the islands of Kauai and Oahu receiving emergency power from a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine during a blackout following Hurricane Iwa.

2 weeks ago | thecoastnews.com | Jordan Ingram

RANCHO SANTA FE — Two North County financial advisors marked a “magical” milestone on Wall Street last month when they were invited to ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Bernard Surovsky of Carmel Valley and Larry Kriesmer of Rancho Santa Fe, co-founders of Kings Road Financial, rang the NYSE closing bell on May 28 in celebration of their newly launched exchange-traded fund, Measured Risk Portfolios, or MRP SynthEquity ETF (NYSE: SNTH).

1 month ago | thecoastnews.com | Jordan Ingram

ENCINITAS — A federal judge has granted a request for a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Encinitas Union School District’s buddy program from teaching gender identity topics without first notifying parents and allowing them to withdraw their children from the lesson.

1 month ago | thecoastnews.com | Jordan Ingram

CARLSBAD — Carlsbad police, working with federal and county investigators, have arrested two suspects in separate elder fraud cases involving more than $140,000 in stolen cash and gold bullion. The arrests, made in April and May, stem from two similar scams targeting elderly residents. In these scams, suspects posed as federal agents or fraud investigators and persuaded victims to surrender their savings under false pretenses, police said in a May 15 release.