San Diego has never hosted a national political ... There also has been concern about the convention center's ceiling being too low to stage an effective balloon drop. (There was talk of staging ...

San Diego will be collecting a higher hotel room tax starting May 1 that will go toward funding a long-sought expansion of its bayfront convention center, homeless services, and road repairs.

The tax hike is expected to raise millions of dollars for street repairs, homelessness initiatives, and improvements to the San Diego Convention Center as the city faces a steep $250 million ...