The Imperial Valley Press features local news from all communities of the Imperial Valley and the Mexicali, Baja California area, as well as San Diego County and portions of southwestern Arizona.

The communities of the Imperial County, Southeastern California, include Bombay Beach, Brawley, Calexico, Calipatria, El Centro, Heber, Holtville, Imperial, Naval Air Facility El Centro, Niland, Ocotillo, Seeley and Westmorland.

As a note to our readers and those who comment, we retain the right to use any of the comments posted on our Facebook page in the print and online version of the newspaper.

We encourage our readers and users to share their ideas and opinions in a respectful manner.

We also ask readers and users to keep their comments on topic and avoid derogatory comments about fellow participants. Our goal is to promote a civil discussion about the news.

We will never edit or alter comments, but we do reserve the right to remove comments that violate our code of conduct. No comment may contain:

- Potentially libelous statements.
- Obscene, explicit or racist language.
- Personal attacks, insults or threats
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Failure to follow our code of conduct will result in comment deletion and up to complete banning from our discussions. We also reserve the right to ban people from commenting should they use a pseudonym.

Beyond strictly following this code, we trust in our readers’ ability to involve in a productive and constructive exchange of ideas and opinions.