EL CENTRO — With only five seniors on the roster, the inexperience of the Calexico High School football team shined... Read More
(This story was updated at 2 p.m. Friday, March 19, with additional information from the California Department of Transportation.) HOLTVILLE... Read More
IMPERIAL — Imperial Valley College mascot Omar the Arab will be retired and replaced after having represented the campus for 80 years, with the last 20 years of that span having been spent largely in obscurity. The mascot’s inconspicuous presence was largely owed to the campus community’s dissatisfaction with the... Read More
CALEXICO — To take a twist on a famous phrase from essayist Sir Francis Bacon, if the farmworkers won’t go... Read More
EL CENTRO — A year ago, COVID-19 seemingly ended all sense of normalcy. Mask-wearing is the norm. Shopping malls and... Read More
CALEXICO — For the third time in a row, Aurora High School has been designated as a Model Continuation High School by the California Department of Education. The three-year designation follows similar recognitions the high school received in 2015 and 2018, as well as a previous nine-year run between 2004... Read More
NILAND — “A lot of work for two old people.” That’s how Barnacle Snug Luffy described the ongoing restoration that... Read More
A surge of optimism among Imperial County residents could be heard in their words and seen in their deeds as... Read More
When one of Guatemala’s ruthless street gangs promised to murder Yesenia Magali Melendrez Cardona in late January if she didn’t join their ranks, she and her mother, Verlyn Cardona, knew this was no idle threat. The single mother had nearly lost her younger brother, Rudy Dominguez, to the brazen violence... Read More
HOLTVILLE — It wasn’t that long ago that whenever firefighters would leave the scene of a particularly shocking emergency, they... Read More