SANTA CRUZ -- When Mike and Cindy Grall imagined their dream house, it was something much more than three bedrooms, two baths, a white picket fence and a swimming pool.

(Corrects Arizona law description in third paragraph ofstory originally published on April 30.) As the economy boomed in the mid-2000s, many immigrants in southern California's border countryspurned field ...

For the penultimate installment in The Inyo Register’s series of candidate statements, the men and women running for the open District 8 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives present their personal biographies, reasons for seeking election and respective platforms.