The 60th traditional regatta Newport-Ensenada, that just took place, reached its climax with the award giving ceremony that was celebrated this past Sunday the 29th, at the port of Todos Santos, better known as Bahia de Ensenada.
There were 449 entries but only 241 official finishers before the 11 a.m. cutoff Sunday. There were about 20 [...]

U.S authorities plan to fill seven cross-border tunnels discovered in California and Arizona in recent years to prevent them from being reused.
The work, expected to begin in May, will cost about $2.7 million. It will involve using a mix of asphalt emulsion and crushed aggregates to fill the tunnels’ hollow sections, which stretch hundreds of [...]

A two-month enforcement effort targeting human-smuggling rings has led to more than 5,000 arrests of illegal border crossers, among them more than 100 people with criminal records, Border Patrol officials said yesterday.
The arrests occurred between Feb. 18 and April 14. They were part of a multiagency operation aimed at decreasing smuggling through the central corridor [...]

TIJUANA – Lawyer Daniel Romero Mejía took the reins of the Tijuana, and then the Mexican, maquiladora associations just as Mexico was experiencing historic transformation to new political leadership under President Vicente Fox.
It was a “rare opportunity,” Romero says now, but circumstances thrust him into a battle to preserve an industry that in two decades [...]

Preparing for its greatest challenge in years, the National Action Party, known as PAN, selected a 51-year-old economist yesterday as its candidate for Baja California’s gubernatorial election in August.
José Guadalupe Osuna Millán, a former Tijuana mayor and federal legislator, narrowly won his party’s nomination with 55 percent of the delegates’ votes, following a hard-fought and [...]

Baja California, Mexico, is an area of great contrasts, with the ocean on one side, and the desert on the other, mountains, canyons and plateaus. Today I’d like to share with my readers, my experience in one of the few oasis left in the peninsula. As you drive through about 99% of the Northern Baja [...]

Tijuana:
A group of gunmen who shot their way into a public hospital Wednesday, killing two police officers and creating panic among staff and patients, were members of the Arellano Félix drug cartel, the region’s major drug trafficking group, a federal official said yesterday.
The assailants were trying to reach a fellow cartel member, Javier Estrada Dominguez, [...]