Increasingly sharp internal debate focuses on what should happen as the acreage devoted to crops and livestock shrinks.

Farmland shrinking fast: California has lost over 1.6 million acres of farmland since 1984, with urbanization and now solar ...

Reporting from El Centro, Calif. — The Imperial Valley is accustomed to the spectral look of failure: Houses around the Salton Sea have been abandoned for decades; the Planters Hotel in Brawley ...

Just off I-8 in Ocotillo lies one of California’s most overlooked cultural sites. The Imperial Valley Desert Museum showcases ...

Imperial’s massive pull on the Colorado stems from a history unlike that of anywhere else in the West. The valley’s fertile soil is hundreds of miles from the river’s headwaters in the Rocky ...

Southern California's Imperial Valley produces about 80 percent of the nation's winter vegetables. But years of drought, and a population boom in the Southwest, now threaten the water supply in ...

The Colorado River Agreement was signed 10 years ago this month. And while the deal brought more water to San Diego, it's still the source of controversy and legal battles.

Imperial Valley farmers now pay about $20 an acre foot to transport Colorado River water to their fields, a price unchanged since 2011. An acre foot is enough water to fill an acre of land, one foot ...

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Imperial Valley Ministries headquarters in El Centro, Calif. (Screen shot/Google Maps) By Meagan Flynn. Inside a beige bungalow in California’s Imperial Valley with a well-trimmed lawn and beds ...

The median family income of a student from Imperial Valley is $33,600, and 7.4% come from the top 20 percent. About 4.8% of students at Imperial Valley came from a poor family but became a rich adult.