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If hikers get stranded atop the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in the future, they won't have to shack up in an old mule shed. The Mount San Jacinto Winter Park Authority on Tuesday announced new procedures for accommodating hikers stranded if the tram shuts down.
Two people were arrested Wednesday — and Coachella police are looking for a third — after an officer spotted a work truck that had been taken in a carjacking, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
Stephen Sanchez watched Tuesday as a trio of Riverside County sheriff's patrol units rolled along Airport Boulevard. It will now be a regular sight in Sanchez's neighborhood, with sheriff's deputies operating out of a new home down the street from his residence near Airport and State Highway 86.
Eight of the Coachella Valley's nine cities have joined dozens of other agencies to ask for state money to study a proposed 54-mile paved trail along the Whitewater River. But two Desert Hot Springs councilmen want $15 million of the $53 million in air quality money to go directly to their city.
LA QUINTA — A deeper revenue shortfall than expected has the La Quinta City Council considering public safety cuts, fee increases and wage reductions to help shore up the budget.
PALM DESERT — The city of Palm Desert may stop paying its Planning Commission members $100 per meeting because of an IRS rule that considers the commissioners employees.
Democratic congressional candidate Raul Ruiz has replaced his local campaign manager with someone who has national connections.
Workshops will be held across the Coachella Valley today to help high school seniors and their families apply for financial aid for college.
PALM SPRINGS — Amtrak expanded its bus service between Fullerton, Riverside and the Coachella Valley, a Caltrans spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Eight people were displaced after a fire damaged two adjacent Indio homes Tuesday afternoon.
LA QUINTA — Desert Sands Unified School District's board shortened the school year by two days in a unanimous vote Tuesday.
COACHELLA — Builders will soon pay higher fees, which will support schools.
DESERT HOT SPRINGS — A Desert Hot Springs police sergeant faces sentencing April 30 in Los Angeles for abusing his powers by using Tasers and pepper spray on suspects in custody.
A Palm Springs man accused of shooting his neighbor's cat, which had to be euthanized, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a single count of animal cruelty.
Desert Hot Springs police added a former professional baseball player to their lineup Tuesday.
Democratic congressional candidate Raul Ruiz has replaced his local campaign manager with someone who has national connections.
Caltrans plans Interstate 10 lane closures between Highway 111 and Ramsey Street in Banning overnight beginning at 8 p.m. today until about 5 a.m. Wednesday for a striping project, a spokesman for the agency said Monday.
SAN FRANCISCO — Backers of California's same-sex marriage ban said Tuesday they will ask a federal appeals court in San Francisco to review the split decision by three of its judges that struck down the voter-approved law.
A Desert Hot Springs police sergeant faces sentencing April 30 in Los Angeles for abusing his powers by using Tasers and pepper spray on suspects in custody.
A Palm Springs man accused of shooting his neighbor's cat, which had to be euthanized, pleaded not guilty today to a single count of animal cruelty.
Firefighters contained a blaze that damaged a pair of adjacent Indio homes and left eight people displaced today.
A Los Angeles-area gang member pleaded guilty today to fatally shooting a man in front of a Desert Hot Springs supermarket and was immediately sentenced to 35 years to life in state prison.
Amtrak expanded its bus service between Fullerton, Riverside and the Coachella Valley, a Caltrans spokeswoman said today.
Desert Sands Unified School District’s board of education will vote today on eliminating two days from this school year.
Democratic congressional candidate Raul Ruiz has replaced his local campaign manager with someone who has national connections.
Three years after a multimillion-dollar, military-style operation to crack down on gangs, gang violence remains a “significant concern” in Desert Hot Springs, the police chief says.
The fuchsia walls and matching tile floors at PeroXide Hair Salon in Cathedral City are bare. The business closed Saturday, two years after co-owners Jeff Yardley and Cary Mann opened its doors.
A Palm Springs man accused of shooting his neighbor's cat, which had to be euthanized, pleaded not guilty today to a single count of animal cruelty.
The U.S. Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of the University of Texas.
Three crashes on westbound Interstate 10 near Bob Hope Drive today slowed traffic during the morning commute.
Oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel on Monday after Iran said it halted crude exports to Britain and France in an escalation of a dispute over the Middle Eastern country's nuclear program.
The American Cancer Society is seeking Coachella Valley cancer survivors who want to participate in a video for the Desert Spirit XXIII Gala on April 1.
Now, the Supreme Court must decide whether the First Amendment protects a Claremont man who falsely claimed to have received the Medal of Honor from prosecution. A Palm Springs man was also sentenced in 2010 for impersonating a U.S. Marine and wearing medals for valor that he never earned.
The baseball fields at the city of La Quinta Sports Complex got a makeover Monday, compliments of two Coachella Valley companies.
A health clinic on wheels is the latest health initiative to roll into the east valley to address the massive lack of care in rural communities heavily populated by farm workers.
The annual Palm Springs Unified School District Science Fair will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. on Thursday in the Desert Hot Springs High School gymnasium, 65850 Pierson Blvd.
GOOD HOPE — Deputies checking reports of gunshots discovered 131 live fighting roosters and 15 dead ones at an apparent fighting arena at a house north of Lake Elsinore, a Riverside County Sheriff's Department spokesman said Monday.
Riverside County firefighters rescued a puppy trapped in a sinkhole of a collapsed septic tank in Calimesa on Sunday night.
A free humorous-style documentary movie spurred by a man's curiosity over the role of plastic bags in our lives will be shown at 6 p.m. Thursday at UCR Palm Desert.
The Palm Springs Black History Month Committee is still accepting entries for the city's 25th annual Palm Springs Black History Parade scheduled for Saturday.
A magnitude-3.0 earthquake that rattled the mountains south of Palm Springs early Monday was felt from Hemet to Indio.
The Coachella City Council meets at 6 p.m. Wednesday, inside City Council chambers, 1515 Sixth St. The council is being asked to approved a memorandum of understanding between the city and its labor unions.
The HIV Provider Network will hold its second annual HIV Conference in the Coachella Valley from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 10 at the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower Medical Center, 43-000 Bob Hope Drive.
Relay for Life and Carl's Jr. in Indio and La Quinta are teaming up to help raise money for the American Cancer Society.
A free lecture on problem gambling will be offered at 6 p.m. March 2 at the Desert Palms Recovery Center by Gary Lange, Ph.D., a certified gambling counselor. The center is at 67-580 Jones Road, behind Target in Cathedral City.
The next Desert Hot Springs Historical Society soup supper has been rescheduled to March 1.
DESERT HOT SPRINGS — Three years after a multimillion-dollar, military-style operation to crack down on gangs, gang violence remains a “significant concern” in Desert Hot Springs, the police chief says.
Candice and David Knox met at a seminar 20 years ago in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Now married 13 years, the couple jokes they had to go through customs just to date. Little did they know four years ago when the economy tanked and Candice Knox got a job offer in Palm Desert that the anniversary luggage he gave her 10 years ago would come in handy.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — One of the oldest known survivors of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake has died at age 109, family members said Monday.
Hexavalent chromium, a potentially cancer-causing heavy metal made famous by activist Erin Brockovich, is found in drinking water supplies throughout most of the Coachella Valley at 150 to more than 1,000 times above California’s public health goal, a Desert Sun review of local water agencies’ well-testing results found.
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Join an online debate on military jets flying in and out of Palm Springs International Airport at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22 at mydesert.com.
For months, Coachella Valley residents have debated what should be done - if anything - about jets that roar over our desert. On Wednesday, Vic Gainer, chairman of the Palm Springs Airport Noise Citizens Committee, will argue that something must be done. Lee Albert of La Quinta will take the opposite stance.
Send questions in advance to james.folmer@thedesertsun.com. You'll also be able to submit questions during the 30-minute livestream broadcast.
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