San Diego-based canned tuna giant Bumble Bee Seafoods has known for years that fishing vessels in its supply fleet used forced labor but failed to stop the practice, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Diego federal court that’s believed to be the first ever to allege human trafficking against a U.S. seafood company.

Four Indonesian villagers are accusing San Diego-based Bumble Bee Foods of physical abuse and forced labor while working as fishermen for the company.

Most of the rain from a powerful storm that hit San Diego County on Thursday morning has moved out, but we’re not done with wet weather yet. Another system is bringing rain chances starting mid-to-late morning on Friday,

San Diego Unified School District families can soon start enrolling their children in transitional kindergarten, which will have more classrooms next school year and fewer children in each one. The 2025-2026 program will grow from 229 to 252 classrooms districtwide and reduce classroom sizes from 24 to 20 students.

San Diego Unified plans to increase the number of Transitional Kindergarten classrooms by 10% and reduce class sizes.