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- Secret Millionaires may want to avoid Imperial Beach
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- Imperial Beach to buy strip mall for $11 million
Since early 2006, the city's Redevelopment Agency has negotiated twice with developers interested in renovating the Miracle Shopping Center, but both deals fell through.
- Aide: Border Patrol to build border fence at park
The Border Patrol will close a popular park on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean to make way for a triple fence along the Mexican border, a legislative aide and activists said Wednesday.
- Hiding in Plain Sight by Congressman Bob Filner
Over the past few years, a silent but dangerous threat to our children and communities has crept into neighborhood markets and shopping centers in alarming numbers: Businesses that sell illegal drug ...
- The Spirit of a Surfer
Officials will dedicate an 18-foot-tall sculpture of a surfer in Imperial Beach Saturday.
- REGION: Friendship Park in dispute over border fence
Border Field State Park in Imperial Beach has long been a meeting place for people separated by the nation's immigration laws, but a new fence being built on the U.S.-Mexico border site threatens to end that ...
- New Year's Resolutions for IB
Posted December 31, 2008, 12:04 p.m. W here to begin? There's so much apathy, right-wing nutjobbery, and outright corruption here that a list of a hundred resolutions this city should take wouldn't cover it.
- Videos by Kent explain storm-water threats
KENT - The town's official Web site touts Kent's 'many beautiful lakes, ponds, reservoirs.' There's no mention of those water bodies making the town an Eden, but they do, according to the town's recent effort ...
- State Budget Crisis Halts Wetlands Work
California's budget crisis has caused a shutdown of wetlands recovery projects in five Southern California counties.
- Free Reusable Shopping Bags To Be Given Away
Local governments, supermarkets and environmental groups planned to give away thousands of free reusable shopping bags Thursday as part of a statewide effort dubbed A Day Without A Bag.
- My Beautiful Son
Posted December 18, 2008, 5:05 p.m. I grew up in various areas of San Diego County.
- Authorities raid North County smoke shops
At a press conference in front of Escondido City Hall, Undersheriff Bill Gore, left, and County Supervisor Bill Horn inspect samples of confiscated marijuana paraphernalia, similar to ones seized in this week's ...
- Is Your Computer Giving You Hassles? I've Got Your Go-To Guy Right Here
Posted December 13, 2008, 11:37 a.m. F ive or so years ago, my computer died. I mean, it just blinked once, then was gone.
- Body Washes Ashore In Imperial Beach
A man's body was discovered Tuesday morning in Imperial Beach, authorities said.
- Two Passengers Rescued from Sailboat at Imperial Beach
Authorities reported that two people needed to be rescued off a sailboat that drifted into the surf at Imperial Beach Sunday.
- Men Rescued From Sail Boat Run Aground
Two men were rescued on board a boat at 4 a.m Sunday morning after their 44-foot vessel ran aground in Imperial Beach.
- Coast Guard responds to vessel aground off Imperial Beach, Calif.
A Coast Guard pullution response team responded to a 42-foot sailing vessel that ran aground off of Imperial Beach earlier this morning.
- Cops protect and serve superstitions, too
Cops generally don't come across as a superstitious bunch. Tough, perhaps. Dedicated, often.
- Man who died in cabin fire was Navy veteran
He was a Naval veteran, who worked for a helicopter company as a subcontractor and moved to a Salisbury Township cabin in September.
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City DescriptionImperial Beach is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. The population was 26,992 at the 2000 census.
Every year the city holds the annual Sand Castles event, which draws about 400,000 people over three days.
Imperial Beach is located at 32°34′42″N 117°7′2″W / 32.57833, -117.11722 (32.578255, -117.117111).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.7 km² (4.5 mi²). 11.1 km² (4.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (5.53%) is water.
The city occupies the extreme southwest corner of the continental United States: bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west and Mexico on the south.
Known as a biker town for its rough atmosphere and seedy beachfront area throughout the 70s, Imperial Beach has undergone a significant makeover in the last ten years and the city has done much to become more visitor-friendly, commercially viable and overall more aesthetically pleasing. However, the city is still a low-key beach community. For years the city was controlled by pro-growth elected officials, but over the years environmentalists and other activists helped elect a group of smart-growth and no-growth officials. The City of Imperial ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- San Diego County
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