Niland News

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.

County Librarian Connie Barrington told the County Board of Supervisors Tuesday the Niland Branch had been scheduled to close this past March 31.

The California Department of Fish and Game will host a town hall style meeting to take public comments on plans for the Imperial Wildlife Area Wister Unit near Niland, California.

Stockton IS the most miserable place in the country? That's what Forbes Magazine says in its list of the most awful places in the United States to live.

In charge of 1,200 miles of weather-beaten roads in rural California, Pat Minturn knows exactly where he would spend the $4 million his office hopes to receive from the federal stimulus package.

His canvas of choice is a slab of masonite, perhaps because it is a sturdy medium when you paint in railroad yards or out in the desert.