Niland News

The Fire was reported at around 7:30 Wednesday night. Engines from Niland, County, Calipatria, Calipatria Prison and Brawley responded to the fire at a Strip Mall on the North side of Niland.

Avoid the tourist throngs and discover two desert oddities 3 hours east of San Diego in Calipatria and Niland.

Elizabeth Pratt, a former ballerina, works out with Pamela Pilkenton at Ventura Pilates.

Leonard Knight has spent 14 years sculpting and painting Salvation Mountain in the California desert near Niland, in Imperial County, east of the Salton Sea, 200 miles from Los Angeles.

San Diego's unpredictable ocean fishing season continued this weekend with the reappearance of albacore within a one-day range offshore.

The ballot for the November 3, 2009 , Consolidated General Election is almost set.

The ballot for the November 3, 2009 , Consolidated General Election is almost set.

Southern California's deserts are definitely weird places. Forget about Nevada's Burning Man festival, because more remote Mojave Desert outposts have it beat when it comes to artistic, way-out happenings.

The presence of the Asian Citrus Psyllid pest in the Imperial County community of Niland has prompted the California Department of Food and Agriculture to extend its quarantine into parts of Riverside County east of the Coachella Valley and north of the Salton Sea to Interstate 10.