Borrego Springs News

The first hot spell of the summer began today, driving some inland temperatures into the 90s, but it won't last too long, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.

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RAAM Daily Wrap-Up - Day 1: Women Soloists and Men 60+ The race has started. Today, at 1200 PDT in Oceanside, California, the Race Across America clock started for the four competing women soloists, from four different countries: Janet Christiansen, Daniela Genovesi, Michele Santilhano and Ann Wooldridge.

You're not alone in shunning center stage - shyness and social anxiety are as natural as breathing.

Posted May 31, 2009, 6:51 p.m. I will tell you what happened at Anza Borrego Desert State Park last month, but please don't repeat it.

Four local state parks would close under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to eliminate $70 million in parks funding for the 2009-10 fiscal year - a move that could cost the desert economy millions of dollars.

Borrego Ranch and Spa in San Diego is one of the most sought after retreat spas in the county.

While most of the Anza-Borrego Desert swelters, the temperature hovers as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit cooler at the "high desert" locale of Culp Valley, 3400 feet above sea level.

The housing bubble popped painfully in many popular second-home areas - including these.

The Raptor promises to be the most off-road-capable F-150 Ford has ever built. This pickup is like a street-legal Baja prerunner.

Cool, overcast conditions, with only a few short breaks, are expected around the county for at least the next week.

An airplane made an emergency landing on a roadway in the desert of northeastern San Diego County Saturday, but it appears that no one was hurt, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said.

A small earthquake struck an area east of the Salton Sea shortly before 11am Thursday morning.

Six laptop computers stolen from an Orange County accounting firm may contain personal financial information from far more people than first reported.

It's not often that lifted trucks designed for off-roading are described as nimble, but that's exactly the word that comes to mind while riding shotgun in the 2010 Ford F-150 Raptor as it blasts through the desert outside of Borrego Springs, California.

Maybe the Kia Borrego is just the car for its eponymous California desert town -- Borrego Springs, in a remote northeast section of San Diego County.

High winds today knocked out power to more than 1,100 customers in Palm Springs and Desert Hot Springs, a utility spokesman said.

Hard-to-reach Sheep Canyon, secreted in the remote middle reaches of Coyote Canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, features some of the most rugged yet beautiful terrain in San Diego County.

Thirty miles south of Indio, you can turn right on S22 from Highway 86 and be transported to Palm Springs in the 1950s.

A small earthquake has struck northeast San Diego County but no damage or injuries are reported.