LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: ● U.S. Homeland Security Investigations is looking into human smuggling as a link to the deadly crash that... Read More
HOLTVILLE — It wasn’t that long ago that whenever firefighters would leave the scene of a particularly shocking emergency, they... Read More
Crews from the Imperial County fire academy will start to clear weeds and hold controlled burns near Niland to lower the chance of another large fire breaking out and spreading in the area. After the Niland fire in June 2020, officials were looking for new ideas to start abating some... Read More
CALEXICO — A wind-whipped, four-alarm brushfire that raged on the edge of the desert about eight miles west of Calexico... Read More
HOLTVILLE — About 80 acres of brush were consumed by a fourth-alarm fire that was reported northeast of Holtville near... Read More
CALEXICO — Abandoned house fires are nothing new for Calexico, which has seen more than its share in the last year and more, as the source continues to be related to the high number of transients and the issue of homelessness, according to a fire captain. On Saturday morning, April... Read More
SAN DIEGO — The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, April... Read More
CALEXICO — An Arizona man was killed when he drove his car in the rear of a slower-moving tractor about... Read More
A Mexicali man was charged in federal court on Tuesday, March 30, with coordinating the March 2 human-smuggling event that led to the deaths of 13 Mexican and Guatemalan nationals in a crash near Holtville, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. Jose Cruz Noguez, age 47, a legal permanent... Read More
EL CENTRO — The inferno that raged through the boarded-up Mayan Hotel in downtown El Centro over the weekend was... Read More