Imperial County

Charges were filed Tuesday against a Mexicali, Mexico, man accused of coordinating a smuggling run that ended with the deaths of 13 Mexican and Guatemalan nationals crammed in an SUV with more than a dozen others.

Imperial County has confirmed the identities of 13 SUV passengers killed in a crash last Tuesday shortly after the vehicle and another SUV breached the border wall.

The mother of a 16-year-old who was injured after a fatal crash in Imperial Valley that left 13 people dead traveled from Guerrero, Mexico, to visit her son hospitalized in San Diego. María Félix Martínez González along with her son, Santiago Angel Martínez González, 11, traveled from Mexico to San Diego on a humanitarian visa to visit José Eduardo...

A mother from Mexicali, Mexico, had her greatest fear come true on Thursday when she confirmed her husband was among the migrants killed in the deadly crash in Holtville, California.

Authorities are investigating whether human smuggling was involved when an SUV packed with 25 people slammed into a tractor-trailer in a remote California desert, killing the driver and 12 passengers near the Mexican border.

Thirteen people were killed when an SUV collided with a gravel-hauling semi-truck near the U.S.-Mexico Border in California’s Imperial County Tuesday morning, according to officials.

The Border Patrol says 13 people killed in a Southern California crash were among more than 40 migrants who entered the U.S. through a hole cut into the border fence with Mexico

More than a dozen people were killed on Tuesday morning after an SUV collided with a truck near the U.S.-Mexico border in California’s Imperial County.

California’s often-forgotten Imperial County is an example of how the coronavirus has been especially damaging to lower-income and Latino households

Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday urged Imperial County to reimpose stay-home orders amid a surge in positive coronavirus tests there as officials in several counties also expressed concern over rising positive test rates and hospitalizations. Newsom said Imperial County leaders would be permitted to decide on how to proceed, but if they don’t agree to act “I am committed...

Nearly three dozen Imperial Irrigation District employees will live at their workplaces in Riverside and Imperial counties beginning Saturday in an attempt to keep the district’s water and electrical operations up and running amid the coronavirus pandemic. The program is aimed at keeping employees safe from COVID-19, and to insure the utility’s services remain operational during the pandemic, officials...