Last month, the United States government took the unprecedented step of placing Ramon Eduardo Arellano Felix on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, and the State Department offered a $2 million reward. The government began …
July 15, 2026
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FBI goes after Tijuana 'juniors'
Still so many whale mysteries at Scammon's Lagoon
Jim Sumich has photographed gray whales from airplanes and studied them from blimps. The Grossmont College marine biology professor has sat on the beach and counted the animals’ distant spouts. He’s spent thousands of hours …
July 14, 2026
Bus ride from Mexico City to Tijuana – we suffer with equanimity
At one of the spacious, French-built Metro stops in Mexico City in the northern suburbs, a crowd descends at certain hours of the day looking like a band of earthquake victims with their bundles of …
June 15, 2026
Tijuana's famous La Mesa prison is like none in the U.S.
This hand-written manuscript arrived with a request from the writer to withhold his identity.I am a third-generation Southern Californian. I graduated from Upland High School in 1962. Unfortunately, it looks like I will spend my …
June 9, 2026
Coronado Cays woman kidnapped at Tijuana office
“I’m sorry, sir, I can’t give any information.” Speaking from his Coronado Cays home, Miguel Crespo sounds tired and shaken. His wife, Georgina, was kidnapped over a month ago.“All the family are concerned about this,” …
June 3, 2026
TJ poets still have manners
The evening began a little after eight in the bar at Sanborn’s on Revolución where eight poets gathered for drinks and chisme (gossip). Around midnight one of them suggested we move on to El Lugar …
May 30, 2026
San Diego astronomers – the pros and the amateurs
When an e-mail reaches the computer of Dennis Mammana at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, a familiar voice interrupts the quiet of the astronomer’s second-floor office. The voice belongs to Bugs Bunny, who announces, …
May 29, 2026
Does this rock art in Baja rival Lescaux in France?
Eric Stanley Gardner, creator of the Perry Mason books and television series, lived in Temecula for the last 32 years of his life, but he loved Baja California. He traveled there as often as he …
May 15, 2026
Kidnapping at luxurious Club Campestre in TJ
Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult not to stare at ten men dressed in black who brandished submachine guns. Under normal circumstances, ten men dressed in black who brandished submachine guns would be the …
May 9, 2026
The development of gardens in Tijuana
I didn't recognize where I was. "Things have changed a lot," said Jorge Rodríguez, leading me out of the rain, into his two-story cinder-block house. "I came to Los Arenales looking for new horizons," he …
May 2, 2026
Caliente – nothing like the racetracks in California
The latest chapter in the. strange and turbulent history of the Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana began at about 10:30 a.m. last September 13, a Monday. Forty-six-year-old Edward M. Spector pulled into the primary inspection …
April 23, 2026
Frank Chin hustles to get Baja Chinese to open up
The world is getting ready for the new Year of the Dog when I'm readying my head to drive down below sea level looking for civility among the racially different and unassimilated. I notice toads …
April 4, 2026
Renowned poet Luis Urrea recounts his dad's death in Mexico
January 10. My father, in a red American Motors 440, drives north through the Sonora desert, ticking off towns as the sun rises to his right. Santa Ana, Caborca, Tajito. He is on his way …
March 21, 2026
Tijuana becomes mecca for suicide seekers
Tijuana has long attracted people seeking medicine and medical procedures unavailable or unaffordable in their home countries. They've been joined recently by people seeking the means to kill themselves. And some of them are coming …
March 12, 2026
Not so bad being sick in Tijuana
Deep-Fried QuesadillasEverything was just out of reach as I lay on my left side in a bed at Tijuana's newest and most modern hospital. I had to sit up or lie down only on my …
March 10, 2026