Since arriving from Mexico over 20 years ago, Richad Crispin Rosado and Julyana Corrolara have built a thriving business in La Jarocha, a grocery store that provides the Latino community with everything from Maseca to paletas and also helps anchor people new to the United States. Now Richad and Julyana are dreaming of extending their role in the community by opening a new restaurant.
Unhoused residents reflect on the harsh conditions that come with living on an island in the San Diego River.
Inewsource, 2024
For nearly a year-and-a-half, parents from the Lithium Force soccer league have been asking for grass to be put in at the Desert Shores Park. The soccer league has become an important recreational outlet for kids, but parents worry that dust from the dirt field is affecting their childrens’ health.
Inewsource, 2024
REWIRED: A Navy SEAL's journey through insanity
inewsource 2021
Former Navy SEAL Johnathan Surmont journeyed to hell and back after an experimental brain treatment. He shares his story in this inewsource documentary.
A mother copes after losing her husband to COVID-19
inewsource 2020
Witchelda Bondoc talks about her husband Joseph Bondoc, who died from COVID-19 in May of 2020.
Breaking out in Drag
The Desert Sun 2018
A look behind Desert Sun reporter Robert Hopwood's first drag performance.
In 2016 The Desert Sun journalists Ian James and Zoë Meyers began to examine the issue of pollution in the New River, which flows across the border from Mexicali into California’s Imperial County. Over the next two years the project ultimately became an investigation into the widespread pollution of air and water in the region, what is contributing to it, and what is its cost.
In 2016 The Desert Sun journalists Ian James and Zoë Meyers began to examine the issue of pollution in the New River, which flows across the border from Mexicali into California’s Imperial County. Over the next two years the project ultimately became an investigation into the widespread pollution of air and water in the region, what is contributing to it, and what is its cost.
In 2016 The Desert Sun journalists Ian James and Zoë Meyers began to examine the issue of pollution in the New River, which flows across the border from Mexicali into California’s Imperial County. Over the next two years the project ultimately became an investigation into the widespread pollution of air and water in the region, what is contributing to it, and what is its cost.