The Mitchell Caverns: California's sacred caves
Explore these ancient limestone caverns a 4.5-hour drive north in the Mojave.
James Michael Dorsey 8:56 p.m., April 22
Tijuana
Tijuana does Hollywood… again
Local social media responds
Tijuana’s National Chamber of Commerce has unveiled its plan to build a Tijuana sign on the hill of Cerro Colorado similar to the famed Hollywood sign in Los Angeles. The proposed sign will be similar ...
Was Bilbray right?
Earthen berms pushed up against Tijuana River
Following a model created more than 30 years ago by former Imperial Beach mayor Brian Bilbray on top of a bulldozer, crews from the International Boundary and Water Commission pushed up an earthen berm at ...
Bad air by the border peaks at night
“We give pollution to Tijuana and they give it back to us"
Preliminary results of the year-long San Ysidro air pollution study came out on Thursday, March 29th. The monitoring program in this border community, which lasted from January 2017 to February 2018, showed an increase in ...
Cesar Gonzalez: Baja's new radio ambassador?
Borderless station — they'll sing and speak in Spanish and English.
When Mike Halloran started at 91X three decades ago, he and the other DJs had to drive down to the studios in Tijuana. “We didn’t try to hide the fact that we broadcast from Mexico.” ...
Tijuana's ambivalence toward marijuana
"Legal in your country, but it’s not legal here."
“I’ve been crossing weed [into Tijuana] since before it went [fully] legal,” says Jorge Fierro, a 23-year-old Mexican-American who resides in Tijuana. “Marijuana in Mexico is sh*tty and you don’t know what quality or how ...
Maguana has gone to Heaven
Tijuana’s famous homeless woman dies
Homeless Tijuana icon, Maria Luisa Castro, also known as “La Maguana,” passed away on March 21 at the age of 61. Ladened with mental diseases and infections like HIV and schizophrenia, Maria Luisa died in ...
Tijuana morgue can't keep up
45 days to claim a corpse, but the state of emergency reduced it to 15 days
‘The smell doesn’t reach all the way to my house,” comments Diego Silverio, a writer and high school teacher who lives a couple blocks uphill from Tijuana’s morgue. “But [the smell] is unbearable when I ...
Mexican stole American's identity 37 years ago
The take: hundreds of thousands in payments and benefits
Tijuana’s Andres Avelino Anduaga pleaded guilty yesterday (March 1) to stealing the identity of an American citizen and collecting his Social Security benefits for 37 years. He admitted to illegally entering the country and stealing ...
Tijuana vigilantes nab suspected thief
Crying children saved from would-be intruder with long knives
Early on the morning of February 18, residents of the Hacienda Los Laureles neighborhood of Tijuana captured a suspected burglar, roughed him up, and tied him to a utility pole until police arrived. According to ...
Is latest trans-border sewage spill news?
Stench of 15 million gallons arrives in I.B.
The sewage stink from the beach south of Seacoast Drive in Imperial Beach started about a quarter-mile north of the Tijuana River mouth on February 17th, with the first hints marked by that pungent, green, ...
Irish reporters seek out border-wall prototypes
We were approached by federales a couple of minutes after filming.
“In Europe, all we hear is about Trump’s wall,” commented Eimear Lowe, an Irish reporter for RTÉ. “We came to Mexico to find out what people here have to say.” Lowe and Ken (her cameraman) ...
Past the 560,000-gallon sewage spill tipping point
Regional Water Quality Control Board to consider lawsuit
On Wednesday, February 14, members from San Diego's Regional Water Quality Control Board will discuss whether to file a lawsuit against the United States International Boundary and Water Commission, the agency responsible for overseeing water ...
Tijuana's Chiki Jai goes bye-bye
Temporary closure was planned for famed restaurant, fire was not
I never had a meal at the famed Tijuana restaurant Chiki Jai, and now I never will. The restaurant burned down on January 19th. Founded in 1947, Chiki Jai (“little party” in Basque) was a ...
Tijuana rain + garbage + rats = chaos
Planned water outage kicks in after the storm
Many Tijuana residents woke up on Wednesday (January 10th) to find garbage in the streets and no running water in their homes. The state’s water utility, known by its initials CESPT, had planned to suspend ...
Southern neighbors — Tijuana culture and history
Mexican Revolution next door, architecture, slang, poets, books about TJ
TeeJay — Back To The Way It Used To Be At Cali-Max, T-bone steaks were selling for 90 cents a pound, compared to American prices of about $1.88. Filet mignon, when bought uncut, costs around ...
