Vote now for Salton Sea special license plate design
Coachella Valley high school seniors could score a college scholarship — and possibly see their art on a California license plate — as part of a Salton Sea design contest.
- May 21, 2013
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Coachella Valley high school seniors could score a college scholarship — and possibly see their art on a California license plate — as part of a Salton Sea design contest.
Mary Jo Potts and James Selsor were sitting in the backyard of their Palm Springs home Sunday morning when an unexpected guest suddenly appeared near their pool. They aren't the only ones finding stray ducklings in their pools and ponds.
The Indio Water Authority has begun delivering water on an emergency basis to a neighborhood of more than 100 homes, Boe Del Heights, after samples taken from a well detected high levels of perchlorate.
Many national parks are finalizing plans to hire fewer temporary employees this summer, close some campgrounds and scale back popular family programs such as ranger-led nature walks and cultural tours because of mandatory budget cuts that took effect March 1.
Water from the Colorado River flows through a canal and a pipeline, and then pours into ponds in the Coachella Valley. That water seeps down through the sandy soil to the aquifer and enables the desert to bloom in an oasis of thousands of palm-studded gardens, golf courses and swimming pools.
The Coachella Valley uses water from the Colorado River to replenish its natural reservoir of groundwater. A lawsuit by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has filed a federal lawsuit seeking confirmation of the tribe's water rights in the Coachella Valley.
The Imperial Irrigation District and Imperial County have for years been jostling in court over the terms of a farmland-to-urban water transfer and efforts to preserve the shrinking Salton Sea, and they now have taken an initial step that could move them toward a tentative agreement.
Read the full text of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians lawsuit over water rights, filed against Coachella Valley Water District and Desert Water Agency.
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday is expected to authorize Riverside County fire Chief John Hawkins to close access to seven hiking and off-road sites where fire danger is high in the summer months.
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