EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — A farming region on California's border with Mexico is closing many stores for a second time during the coronavirus pandemic, while further limiting religious services and...

EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that the state is building a “field medical station" with up to 125 beds to aid a farming region along the Mexican border that has...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Two members of a Southern California-based ministry that allegedly forced homeless people and drug addicts to panhandle, stole their welfare benefits and held them against their...

EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — A handful of small earthquakes have rattled a section of the California desert not far from the Mexican border.

PHOENIX (AP) — Forecasters are posting notices of dangerous heat in southern Nevada, southeastern California and southern and western Arizona for Tuesday and the next day or two.

EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — The mayor of the Southern California city of El Centro has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence following his arrest last month.

EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — A convicted drug trafficker implicated in the 1985 torture and killing of a DEA agent was arrested in Mexico and returned to California to face a charge of probation...

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EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Southern California have arrested a man they say tried to smuggle more than 2 pounds (1 kilogram) of opium paste by taping it to his buttocks.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say drug-sniffing dogs zeroed in on the 28-year-old man's SUV last week at a checkpoint along a rural Imperial County freeway north of the Mexican border.

EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a series of earthquakes in the Southern California desert (all times local):

9:30 p.m.

A series of earthquakes with magnitudes above 3.0 rattled the Southern California desert.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the first quake early Saturday evening was magnitude-3.4 and centered about 27 miles (43 kilometers) northwest of El Centro in the desert near the Arizona border.

At least three other quakes struck the area, with the largest being a magnitude-3.5.

EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has rattled the Southern California desert.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake on Saturday was centered about 27 miles (43 kilometers) northwest of El Centro in the desert near the Arizona border.

It struck in the early evening. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Latest on a deadly Marine helicopter crash in the California desert. (all times local):

3:20p.m.

Military officials say the four crew members killed when a Marine helicopter crashed during a training mission in Southern California were all Marines.

The Miramar air station in San Diego says the crew had taken off from a ground-combat center in the city of Twentynine Palms on Tuesday to practice helicopter landings in "unimproved zones."

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KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — A California city manager has been selected to serve as the new manager for Alaska's Ketchikan Gateway Borough.

The Borough Assembly picked Ruban Duran for the job on Friday. He's leaving his position as manager of the Southern California city of El Centro and will take over for the borough's outgoing manager, Dan Bockhorst, on Dec. 19, The Ketchikan Daily News reported (http://bit.ly/2ftix7L).