Kerri Ann Abatti was found shot in her Arizona home amid a divorce with her husband, a prominent farmer in California’s ...

Detectives served warrants on the El Centro home of Mike Abatti, as well as multiple structures and properties associated ...

The Imperial Valley might be the best place in the world to grow beets. What went wrong with the California industry?

State Sen. Steve Padilla’s letter comes as Imperial Valley residents and advocates say they were blindsided by plans for the ...

The wife of a prominent Imperial County farmer was killed in her Arizona home. No arrests have been announced.

Investigators out of Navajo County, Arizona, served multiple search warrants at a Southern Californian farming magnate’s home ...

The county also happens to be sitting on enough lithium to produce nearly 400 million batteries, sufficient to completely revamp the American auto fleet to electric propulsion. Even better, that ...

Farmworkers weed rows of Romaine lettuce outside Holtville, Calif. Farmers in the area rely on water from the Colorado River via the All-American Canal to irrigate their crops. (Carolyn Cole / Los ...

The family’s demand comes after the El Centro Police Department released a highly-edited compilation of body camera-footage ...

In California’s Imperial Valley, local history is filled with broken economic development promises. In the 1900’s, the introduction of irrigation was supposed to bring a flourishing agriculture ...

A modest proposal for western water: Turn off the spigot to the Imperial Valley and let the farms go fallow. In return, provide a water future for Arizona, Nevada and Southern California. Sure, there ...

Hochschild is chair of the California Energy Commission and lives in Berkeley. Hueso is a state senator representing the 40th District, including Imperial County and the border region of San Diego ...