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2026 Election Guide | Yuma County Credit: Yuma Informed / AI-generated illustration Yuma County posts its first results around 8 tonight. Two years ago, barely half the county's ballots had been counted by the next morning. Here's what's in each batch, what comes later, and the one number worth watching.
Contributions to Arizona Grassroots Action PAC reported in its Oct. 15, 2026 FEC filing. Credit: Yuma Informed graphic; data from the Federal Election Commission. A super PAC that had raised nothing since early 2025 took in $38,500 in thirteen days in September. Every dollar came from people who list Onvida or Yuma Regional Medical Center as their employer. Here's what the federal filing shows, and what it doesn't.
Illustration for the 2026 Colorado River Crossing Balloon Festival; not a photograph of the event. Credit: Image supplied by publisher. The Caballeros de Yuma's Colorado River Crossing Balloon Festival returns Nov. 13 to 15 at the Pacific Avenue Athletic Complex. Sunrise launches, Saturday's Balloon Glow, and a free Friday morning launch (bring a can of food to donate).
Yuma Informed guide graphic for YumaCon 2026. Credit: Graphic: Yuma Informed (AI-generated) Yuma's comics, anime and gaming convention is Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 7 and 8, at the Yuma Civic Center. Hours, who gets in free, the kid rule and what's on the floor.
Photo: USARJ NCO Corps via Flickr, CC BY 2.0, cropped. Illustrative; not from Saturday's game. News
Forty-nine seconds in, AWC's women were already winning. Next Saturday they play for more, at home.
Arizona Western's top-ranked women's soccer team beat Eastern Arizona 2-1 on Halloween night to win Region I, a year after losing that title. They're still unbeaten, and they host Salt Lake in the West District Final on Nov. 7.
Before Sunday, Yuma's official gauge had caught 0.60 inches of rain all year, less than a quarter of normal. The storm that flooded Phoenix streets is gentler here, though it knocked out power to 72 APS customers. Ponding, washes and a breezy Sunday night are still worth watching.
Yuma doesn't get much rain, but when it comes, it can come all at once. Here's what shallow-looking water does to a car, what Arizona's "stupid motorist law" actually covers, where to get sandbags, and who to call when the street turns into a pond.
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Tecate's Deadliest Years, by the Numbers
Between 2019 and 2021, homicide victims in Tecate went from 96 a year to 241. A council member was shot near City Hall. A Kumiai water defender was killed. Here's what the state's own tables show, and what they can't tell you.
Óscar Eyraud Adams was a Kumiai farmer and agronomist from Nejí who spent his last years fighting for water his community could use. On Sept. 24, 2020, he was shot and killed in Tecate. Here's who he was, and what's still unknown.
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The Adamses of Nejí
In 2001, an 82-year-old rancher at Nejí, east of Tecate, told a university historian how his family came to the land: an English grandfather, a French father, and women who owned the ranch. It's a story about a valley where settler ranchers and a Kumiai community share a name.
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What the Records Say
Seven stories in, here's the tally on Carlos Adams: what's proven, what isn't, what I believe, what got thrown out, and the questions he still won't answer.
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Handing It Off
On Oct. 4, I filed a tip about Carlos Adams with Arizona's counterterrorism center. Here's what I sent, word for word, the 2001 federal drug case behind it, and why I thought it belonged with the FBI.
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The Public Fight
On Oct. 4, Carlos Adams posted a private message I'd sent him and called it proof of a conspiracy. Three days later he took it to City Council. Here's what happened that week, who 'we' was, and what Adams still hasn't turned over.
In 2021, a Tijuana-area website called Carlos Adams the nephew of Tecate's mayor. Tecate's own records turned up a Carlos Gil Adams Pereyra and a family tree that fits almost too well. Adams has never said whether it's his.
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Two Addresses and a Name
A ranch road in San Diego County. A house in Yuma, bought in 2000 by a man named Carlos G. Adams. Both show up on Carlos Adams's paperwork. One was a dead end. The other leads somewhere Adams won't talk about.
Carlos Adams ran for mayor on his business. So who owns it? The filings, trademarks and shipping records point in three directions, and the company's own website points to a house in Yuma.
Carlos Adams wants Yuma to look hard at the people who run it. Fine. Let's look hard at him: a write-in candidate with a business that has three birthdays, a family he won't name, and a house bought by a man with his name when he was in first grade.
PPEP's founder started with a 1957 school bus and a $19,000 grant. He died Oct. 9. Two weeks later, the San Luis YouthBuild class he helped make possible graduated, and the man who ran it for more than two decades retired.
Balloons over the river, beer inside a prison, a 1920s speakeasy, a lighted parade and a whole street of tamales. A short guide to the next seven weeks, with what's confirmed and what isn't.