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Symbolic illustration inspired by Polish movie posters. Credit: Yuma Informed / AI-generated editorial illustration 
Symbolic illustration inspired by Polish movie posters. Credit: Yuma Informed / AI-generated editorial illustration Explainer
Trash beside a farm field creates a safety question. It does not prove a contaminated crop.
A Yuma grower describes checking fields and marking buffers around dumped material. Federal guidance explains the risk assessment, while the local report leaves no basis to claim contaminated produce or measured crop loss.
Symbolic illustration inspired by Polish movie posters. Credit: Yuma Informed / AI-generated editorial illustration Vistara’s manager advertises income-restricted apartments and accepts Section 8 voucher applications. Its rent ranges conflict, so a current quote matters more than the headline price.
Symbolic illustration inspired by Polish movie posters. Credit: Yuma Informed / AI-generated editorial illustration An Oct. 21 appeal describes two separate rewards of up to $500, with different conditions. Tips can be reported anonymously using case OGT #26-002960.
The City of Yuma now expects Phase I of East Mesa Community Park to be complete in December. Its current public pages still do not give a date for when people can use the park.
AI-generated newspaper illustration created for Yuma Informed. It is symbolic, not a documentary image of Price Elementary or the actual telescope. Credit: Yuma Informed / AI-generated illustration The elementary school on Yuma Proving Ground now has a computerized telescope from the Smithsonian's rural astronomy program. The visit made for a nice day. What happens over the rest of the school year is the part still worth asking about.
Original Yuma Informed editorial graphic. A new U of A researcher is testing the link. A research question, not a forecast. Credit: Yuma Informed | Original typography and gradient design; no photography or third-party artwork. News
Yuma's new U of A bug scientist has a question: can a mild winter predict a bad whitefly spring?
New U of A pest specialist Leonardo Salgado plans to compare years of insect counts with weather records to test whether mild winters help predict spring whitefly outbreaks.
Original Yuma Informed editorial graphic. HSOY says kitten season hasn't slowed down. Foster homes are needed in Yuma. Credit: Yuma Informed | Original typography and gradient design; no photography or third-party artwork. HSOY says 559 neonatal kittens have passed through its kitten ICU since April 23, and the influx continues. Here's how to apply to foster and what the commitment involves.
Original Yuma Informed editorial graphic. District One invites you to review its proposed reading programs through December 8, 2026 Credit: Yuma Informed | Original typography and gradient design; no photography or third-party artwork. News
District One has picked the reading programs it wants. You can look at them first, until Dec. 8.
District One recommends HMH Into Reading for K-5 and Savvas myPerspectives for grades 6-8. The materials are open for public review by appointment through Dec. 8, 2026.
Original Yuma Informed editorial graphic. The stage musical at Historic Yuma Theatre October 23 & 24, 2026 | 8 p.m. | Ages 18+ Credit: Yuma Informed | Original typography and gradient design; no photography or third-party artwork. The Rocky Horror Show comes to the Historic Yuma Theatre Oct. 23-24 as a live stage musical. Doors open at 7 p.m., the show starts at 8, and official prop bags are included. Ages 18+ with ID.
The Arnold Road Bridge remains open as the only available detour around the closed Picacho Road Bridge. Imperial County says erosion repairs are pending and weekly bridge inspections will continue. Credit: Yuma Informed / SI-generated editorial illustration Explainer
The detour bridge into Winterhaven is eroding. Here's what Imperial County says it's doing about it.
With the Picacho Road Bridge closed, the Arnold Road Bridge carries the detour. The county declared an emergency over erosion there in May. Five months later, repair bids were due, and the bridge is still open with weekly inspections.
The Picacho Road Bridge in Winterhaven has been closed since March 3, 2025. Imperial County records document months of federal approvals, demolition complications and an engineering assessment indicating the bridge may need replacement. Final engineering certification and a reopening timeline remain outstanding. Credit: Yuma Informed / SI-generated editorial illustration Explainer
Why has the Picacho bridge been closed for 19 months? Imperial County's paperwork tells the story.
A guardrail crash, a federal canal, a shortage of floating platforms, a concrete curb in the water and, finally, an engineer’s finding that the bridge probably can’t be saved. Here’s how a closure “until further notice” turned into a year and a half.
A supervisor's remark got the headlines. The Quechan Tribal Council's signed statement is mostly about two bridges, and the county's own Oct. 20 report says the closed one will probably have to be replaced.
An imaginative editorial illustration for the Warden's Speakeasy feature. The architecture and party scene are stylized; this does not depict the actual planned event. Credit: Yuma Informed / AI-generated illustration The Yuma Territorial Prison is hosting a 21-and-over masquerade speakeasy on Nov. 21, with live music, a full bar and a cigar lounge. Tickets are $20, and they're limited.
An original editorial illustration for the AWC contest preview; it does not depict actual contest participants or AWC. Credit: Yuma Informed / AI-generated illustration Arizona Western College, the Consulate of Mexico in Yuma and a local arts group are hosting a free Día de los Muertos costume contest with cash prizes, followed by an altar celebration with mariachi and pan de muerto.
AI-generated illustration representing Arizona Western's fall volleyball and soccer teams; it does not show actual athletes or a specific match. Credit: Yuma Informed / AI-generated illustration Volleyball hasn't lost. Women's soccer is No. 1 in the country. Men's soccer hasn't lost either. All three Arizona Western fall teams have locked up conference titles, and the playoffs come home to Yuma next week.
Yuma County Courthouse, photographed February 7, 2014. Credit: Cbl62 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (image resized for display). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Judge Mark Wayne Reeves has spent two decades handling some of Yuma County's most personal cases, from juvenile court to family law. His retirement opens a seat the governor will fill. Applications are due Nov. 13, and the interviews are public.
Historic engraving of the Colorado River at Yuma, published in 1900. Credit: William Henry Bishop, 1900; digitized from the 1900 book by Internet Archive via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain in the United States. Arizona filed Oct. 16 to join Nevada's federal lawsuit over the new Colorado River operating rules. The motion never mentions Yuma. That doesn't mean Yuma has nothing riding on it.
Construction debris in Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C.; illustrative image, not a Yuma site. Credit: Ser Amantio di Nicolao via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (image resized for display). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Anyone who lives next to a new subdivision knows the look: insulation scraps on the sidewalk, packaging caught in a fence. Yuma's proposed fix is a waste container on every construction site, and the builder is on the hook if debris blows away.
Yuma Main Street Historic District, photographed March 11, 2018. Credit: Marine 69-71 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (image resized for display). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ For 30 years, new buildings under 5,000 square feet in Yuma's Old Town district didn't have to provide on-site parking. A proposed change would end that. It's up for introduction Wednesday, and nobody spoke at the planning commission hearing.