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The region is at risk of becoming another type of desert — a banking desert. -
Remote, low-income and hit hard by COVID-19, the Imperial Valley has emerged as an unexpected success story — 86% of eligible residents are vaccinated. The county relied on its trusted networks of clinics, hospitals and farm employers. -
Comic-Con returns with another virtual convention due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of California system implements a new series of tuition increases, and the environmental cost of electric car batteries. -
San Diego County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Black Lives Matter protester in Imperial Beach on Sunday. She says she was mistaken for another woman and deputies used unnecessary force. -
A swarm of earthquakes shook Imperial County on Saturday morning, the largest of which was a magnitude 5.3 reported near El Centro according to the US Geological Survey. -
The leader of a local microbrew steps down after a social media post alleging an abusive culture in the craft beer industry goes viral, local marijuana retail workers unionize, and graduating seniors at SDSU prepare for commencement during a pandemic. -
While new border wall construction has been halted by the Biden administration, the border fence in Calexico is seeing new updates to the existing barrier with some added sheets of metal. -
Testimony released Monday says the driver of an SUV packed with migrants stopped or slowed before getting slammed by a tractor-trailer in one of the deadliest border-related crashes. -
San Diego's reopening expands as progress is made on COVID-19 cases and vaccinations, an encampment for cross-border farmworkers is dismantled by police in Calexico and a look at the revolving door in Chula Vista between the city's police department and the surveillance drone industry. -
Calexico police disbanded without incident a temporary encampment Wednesday morning, removing rows of tents and belongings that had served as a home for farmworkers and others since late January.
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