Imperial News

Imperial County Avoid the 10 DUI Campaign releases their 4th of July weekend schedule.

El Centro, California - The 19th annual installment of Freedom Fest will reflect a good old-fashioned 4th of July celebration on the campus of Imperial Valley College.

William T. Vollmann documents life on the Mexican border. By Jonathon Keats, Photograph courtesy of Powerhouse Books During the decade he spent in California's Imperial County observing life on the Mexican border, William T. Vollmann learned to navigate by smell, following the Salton Sea's acrid stench and Calipatria's sweet-burning grass on his ...

Each year we celebrate our annual Real Heroes Breakfast, a community celebration to honor citizens in San Diego and Imperial Counties who have made a difference through their individual acts of courage.

A woman named Barbara sits near the corner of Imperial Avenue and 17th Street in East Village, wearing a black bandana, matted pink slippers and a gray Sean John sweat suit.

Two men from Los Angeles arrived in Ukiah Thursday on one suped up car, a 1975 Chrysler Imperial, followed by television cameras from 44 Blue Productions.

Studio 15 is located at 1475 Imperial Avenue in the East Village. The city's newest housing opened Thursday offering rents anyone would consider affordable.

The 47-year-old woman was spotted driving a dark SUV south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 805 from state Route 54 at 5:49 a.m., the California Highway Patrol said.

The Task Force is a joint effort between several participating law enforcement agencies.

As the recession continues to take its toll, college grads have to work harder to stand out.

K. J. Kammerer & Associates, a nationwide energy conservation management-consulting firm here announced that it has been awarded a two-year contract with the Southern California Public Power Authority to help lower energy consumption by vending machines and save its customers an estimated $6 million annually in energy costs.

SAN DIEGO a ' Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced a murder charge against a man accused of hitting and killing a Border Patrol agent last year.

The California Department of Public Health confirmed 16 cases of swine flu in the state as of Thursday and was testing samples from 23 probable cases.

Though no cases of the new strain of swine influenza that has been spreading from the epicenter in Mexico to points across the globe have been found in Mendocino County, local officials have been taking preemptive measures to combat the virus.

Posted April 27, 2009, 11:23 a.m. Apparently the influence of Carolyn Smith over the future of the Encanto Heights Annex to the City of San Diego is not done yet.

Reporting from El Centro, Calif. -- The Imperial Valley is accustomed to the spectral look of failure: Houses around the Salton Sea have been abandoned for decades; the Planters Hotel in Brawley stood empty for years before it was destroyed by fire; Main Street in El Centro, the Imperial County seat, remains stubbornly vacancy-pocked. But even by ...

California health officials said Saturday that there was one more confirmed case of human swine flu in the state, but none have been reported in the Bay Area as local hospitals stepped up surveillance for a possible outbreak.

Imperial, California - Summer brings warm weather, a break from school and endless hours spent outdoors with friends and family.

Members of the Visalia Police Department explorers program participated over the weekend in the 2009 Imperial Valley Law Enforcement Explorer Competition in Imperial, California.

The international border with Mexico is becoming of increasing concern to the U.S. Government due to an increase in dangerous illegal activities and an escalating trend in border violence.