Dateland News

A small cafe was opened in 1965 along the highway about a hundred miles east of Yuma and quickly gained a reputation for its date milkshakes.

When you hear "ghost town," chances are images of abandoned buildings and dusty streets littered with tumbleweeds come to mind.

It was an afternoon of squeals and wheels inside a gymnasium filled with kids last Saturday when local Masons held their annual bike giveaway.

Chandler resident Tonya Lococo has won $2.3 million in "The Pick" drawing of the Arizona Lottery.

For the first time in more than 60 years, parishioners of First Southern Baptist Church of Wellton will be raising their prayers to heaven from a new location.

A former Army Ranger walking across the country in honor of fallen comrade Pat Tillman has arrived in Yuma County in southwestern Arizona.

A 15-year-old boy was killed after driving a truck off the road in southern Arizona on Thursday.

A 15-year-old boy died after he lost control of his pickup truck and crashed in Dateland, Ariz., Thursday afternoon.

A 15-year-old boy was killed after the vehicle he was driving crashed in the southern Arizona city of Dateland on Thursday afternoon.

A 15-year-old boy was killed after the truck he was driving in Dateland Thursday afternoon rolled over, the Yuma County Sheriff's Office said.

Firefighters battling a 475-acre wildfire that has been burning since Thursday northeast of Dateland are now calling it 100 percent contained.

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Wellton area have seized nearly 3,000 pounds of marijuana carried across the border by smugglers this month, the patrol said.

Three planes dropped fire retardant chemicals Friday morning on a massive wildfire that continued to burn in northeastern Yuma County.

Transportation in the archives Silent Sentinel Tucson celebrates the 129th anniversary of the railroad's arrival with a vintage piece of equipment gone high-tech Dave Devine Jim Staggs stands in front of the solar-powered semaphore.

Yuma County officials are backing legislation that would enable the county to be reimbursed for funding services it provides to the county library district, which cost about $200,000 a year.

Although there has been no recent movement on eastern Yuma County's "old" energy project - a proposed oil refinery - there does appear to be interest in a "new" energy project there.

One California based company thinks there could be more than dates to harvest in Dateland.

A solar power project is in the planning and early permitting stages for eastern Yuma County, and officials want to share the news with area residents.

On behalf of all the students and staff at Dateland School, I would like to thank Melissa Henry, The Yuma Ballet Company and all the gracious businesses that made it possible for our school to be a part of the ...