El Centro News

If you head east to El Centro from San Diego, Interstate 8 takes you through arid scenery, climbing to 4,000 feet through barren mountains so fast that your ears pop.

RAF pilots are training for the harsh conditions they will face in Afghanistan - at the American base where the movie Top Gun was filmed.

The most unemployed town in America - or is it? Posted by: Nick Carey If you're looking for ground zero in America's longest and deepest recession, El Centro in southern California appears on first glance to fit the bill.

Consolidated Elections normally experience a low voter turnout. On November 3 most voters will decide School and Special District races.

It sure sounds like the Great Depression in El Centro, Calif. In this city near the Mexican border, the unemployment rate hit a whopping 30.1 percent in September, the Labor Department reports.

U.S. Border Patrol Agents from the El Centro Sector arrested a man Tuesday and discovered he was a registered sex offender in the state of Oregon.

Border Patrol Explorer Post and the El Centro Parks and Recreation Department will host the annual Haunted House on Oct.

A forecast for gusty winds has prompted a high pollution advisory for Tuesday. Winds up to 44 mph are predicted at 5,000 feet.

The City has a plan to make commuting quicker. A $750,000 bid has been accepted to synchronize various traffic signals.

A Canadian fighter jet made an emergency landing at a U.S. air force base northeast of Las Vegas this weekend after an apparent power failure to one of its two engines.

A Canadian jet fighter made an emergency landing in southern Nevada after losing power in one of its two engines.

Deputy Coroner Tommy Garcia says the man was pronounced dead at El Centro Regional Medical Center.

EL Centro de Accion Social holds its annual "Dia de los Muertos" - "Day of the Dead" - event from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. tonight at Villa-Parke Community Center, 363 E. Villa St.

She told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday the El Centro Vaccination Clinic was a state record.

EL CENTRO, Calif. - Esteban Contreras had a bad feeling when his daughter and her husband said they were going to sneak across the border with their children.

As a man charged with vehicular manslaughter and felony DUI underwent arraignment Friday, details finally emerged about the woman killed Wednesday when the defendant's van jumped the curb and struck her while she was on the sidewalk along Sabre Springs Parkway.

A motorist accused of being high on methamphetamine when he drove his van onto a sidewalk, killing a woman on her morning walk in Sabre Springs, pleaded not guilty today to gross vehicular manslaughter, DUI and other charges.

A 13-year-old Mexican girl alleges a human smuggler kicked her in the stomach after ignoring a plea to save her parents and younger brother from a GMC Suburban that overturned into a canal in Southern California.Cecilia Cid-Contreras told jurors Thursday in El Centro, Calif., that she woke up underwater and swam to a bank, where she begged the ...

The El Centro Public Library building on State Street will get a new coat of paint applied by local volunteers.

The City of El Centro has received an Investment Assistance grant from the Economic Development Administration.