Imperial County News

O'Connell says 242 School Food Authorities in 48 California Counties will share $12.8 million in 2009 Equipment Assistance Grants.

About 800 San Quentin State Prison inmates have been quarantined while officials investigate 30 suspected cases of swine flu.

The Governor has declared a fiscal emergency. The declaration came after the state entered the new fiscal year without a budget.

Counties will undoubtedly shoulder the burden of the state's budget stalemate, officials warned yesterday, but just how much weight will come down is still being penciled out.

The certified results of the May 19 special election show that statewide turnout was 28.4 percent, one of the lowest in years.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has targeted public lands in the eastern half of Riverside County as the largest of 24 solar energy study zones singled out for fast-track development.

They are inviting the community to nominate a Latina for consideration as a 2009 Las Primeras Honoree.

State officials said less than a third of California voters turned out for a special election last month that shot down five budget-related measures proposed by lawmakers and the governor.

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Cano is accused of shooting her husband and killing him. Francisco Cano was shot once in the face at the couples Calexico home on December 4, 2006.

California's unemployment figures have gotten bad enough you are now allowed to mention the Joad family Hooray! It's that time of the month when the state's Employment Development Department releases its numbers about how much employment is not being developed.

Authorities made four drug busts, worth $1.7 million, at a Calexico checkpoint in Imperial County.

El Centro Police arrested a 29-year old man on forgery and burglary related charges.

She went before the County Board of Supervisors Tuesday. Munguia said AIDS prevention material was recently passed out at Health Fair at BUHS.

By the world-class standards of the famous golf courses in the Coachella Valley, the West Shores Golf Park near the shores of the Salton Sea barely qualifies as a course at all.

The first earthquake measured 3.6 on the Richter Scale and was recorded at 3:37 PM Saturday afternoon.

Each year we celebrate our annual Real Heroes Breakfast, a community celebration to honor citizens in San Diego and Imperial Counties who have made a difference through their individual acts of courage.

" A Rancho Bernardo truck driver was stabbed and beaten as he delivered inventory to an Arizona auto parts store, and two gang members have been charged with murder in his death.

The California Department of Transportation broke ground May 27 on the next phase of the State Route 905 Project, one of the first transportation projects in the state funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act .

AB 1079 facilitates the clean up of the New River. The bill establishes the New River Improvement Project and grants the California/Mexico Border Relations Council authority to initiate and develop the project with public and private partners on both sides of the border.