Karen Billing is a Reporter at Carmel Valley News, Rancho Santa Fe Review, Del Mar Times, Solana Beach Sun, and Encinitas Advocate. With a journalism degree from Marquette University and over two decades of experience in community news, she covers a diverse range of topics including local news, schools, and community events, with a particular focus on arts and entertainment, beauty, and law enforcement. Karen's work has been featured in Del Mar Times Inc, Encinitas Advocate, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Rancho Santa Fe Review, and The Mercury News.
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Karen's coverage mainly focuses on local events, education, community development, and sports in the Rancho Santa Fe and San Diego areas. Pitches should highlight relevant local events, educational initiatives or developments in these communities. Sources with insights into local governance, school board matters, community activities or sporting achievements would likely resonate with her.
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By: Karen Billing
Canyon Crest Academy student entrepreneurs recently won Junior Achievement San Diego’s Company of the Year with their start-up business Unmixed, cookie baking kits sold in reusable glass jars. Led by a team of students that includes Ab…
By: Karen Billing
The Solana Beach School District celebrated its centennial anniversary on May 6, At the district office on North Rios Avenue in Solana Beach, the former home of Central School, which opened in 1925 with just 37 students. “The building had t…
By: Karen Billing
A long-vacant former real estate office in Del Mar has been transformed into an expansive nursery and gift shop, with an inviting cafe at its center. The new Terra Bella Nursery and Selva Coffee opened on May 1 in Del Mar Shopping Center on…
By: Karen Billing
Around this time of year, the Celebrate Osuna event would typically bring Rancho Santa Fe Association members together at the Osuna Ranch decked out in cowboy hats and boots for pony rides, rodeo games and a barbecue to commemorate an…
By: Karen Billing
Ballots were mailed last week for the 2026 Rancho Santa Fe Association Board of Directors election, shortly after a May 14 candidate forum featuring the three candidates Annie Finch, Chuck Reynolds and Jeff Simmons. Two board seats are up…
By: Karen Billing
Last week Rancho Santa Fe School District added a fourth ocean-inspired mosaic mural to the R. Roger Rowe School campus. While other murals created by student artists over the last 16 years are placed on buildings deeper into the school,…
By: Karen Billing
A corner of the playground on the R. Roger Rowe School campus is a little bit brighter thanks to a new tile wall, a project undertaken by fifth grade students in the leadership program. At the Rancho Santa Fe School District board’s May 14 …
By: Karen Billing
As summer approaches and the school year winds down, R. Roger Rowe School will be saying goodbye to five longtime educators. At the Rancho Santa Fe School District board’s May 14 meeting, they honored retirees Christi Walter, Linda Tan, S…
By: Karen Billing
With the recent opening of SkinLUX MD, a new physician-led medical aesthetics practice in Carmel Valley’s Carmel Country Plaza, owner Dr. Jessica Yu aims to bring a “clinically credible” approach to the medical spa …
By: Karen Billing
Pairing their passions for music and philanthropy, Canyon Crest Academy sophomores Adam Taub and Naya Thomas recently staged a successful Spring
