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Friday would have marked Gerald and Barbara Schmitz's 61st wedding anniversary. Now, friends and family say, rather than celebrating the Rancho Mirage couple’s lengthy, healthy, and happy union with a family trip to Los Angeles, they are instead planning a funeral for Barbara and hoping for Gerald’s quick recovery.
Cove resident Debi Rogers can't remember the last time she bought eggs, and she doesn't want to.
The California Assembly Budget Committee recently passed a bill known as AB 76. The bill is ready to be signed or vetoed by California's Governor Jerry Brown.
A traffic collision left a car on its roof tonight in Rancho Mirage. No word on injuries.
Indio City Council voted 5-0 Wednesday to take part in the Riverside County Post-Release Accountability and Compliance Team or PACT, a local task force that keeps an eye on low-level criminals that are on probation.
California lawmakers will get a pay raise of nearly $5,000 this year while the governor will see an increase of nearly $9,000 after a citizens' panel voted Wednesday to restore some of the cuts it made during the recession.
As a farewell gift to the Coachella Valley, the family of Gerald and Betty Ford will allow an estimated 1,000 personal items to be auctioned for charity.
An $18 million conservation plan expected to pay for itself in cost savings was unanimously approved by the Palm Springs City Council on Wednesday.
According to the credits, 'Tennis,' screening at 5 p.m. today, is based on a true story.
"They're funny to watch," Debi Rogers says about the chickens she keeps in her La Quinta backyard. "It's not a normal pet." Find out why she may have to get rid of them — and efforts to change that — tonight on MyDesert.
The Fountain of Life in Town Square will be closed for routine maintenance and repair until early July, the city announced in a Facebook Post on Wednesday morning.
A wind advisory, issued by the National Weather Service, will be in effect for the Coachella Valley from 2 p.m. Wednesday to 3 a.m. Thursday.
A portion of Avenue 54 will shut down beginning July 8 for a road improvement project in Coachella.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents on Tuesday apprehended a 19-year-old man suspected of human smuggling after agents found a man hidden inside the trunk of his car at the Highway 86 checkpoint near Salton City.
Top amateur players in the Humana Challenge will be able to play in the golf tournament's final round for the first time next year, it was announced today.
Financial markets shuddered Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it could start scaling back its huge bond-buying program later this year and end it by the middle of 2014.
Apparently, Men's Wearhouse Inc. doesn't like the way its founder, the son of a Rancho Mirage man, looks anymore.
After helping to launch the nonprofit regional economic development agency in 1994 that is now the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership — and nearly having to close it on several occasions — longtime valley banker Bill Powers said he is amazed at what it is evolving into.
Four of the nation's leading mortgage servicers have not complied fully with new standards for handling home loans and must correct those problems or face fines up to $5 million for each continuing failure, the federal government said Wednesday.
In a movie season dominated by super heroes, animators Charuvi Agrawal and Ryan Kravetz have their own super powers.
Since opening last week, the apocalyptic comedy 'This Is the End' has earned $33 million at the box office, making it one of the biggest hit comedies of the year.
James Gandolfini, star of HBO's 'The Sopranos,' has died at age 51, according to a statement released by the network.
Knott’s Soak City’s 3rd annual “Dive-In” movies are set for every Friday night from June 21 to Aug. 23.
Palm Springs residents Daniel Vaillancourt and David A. Lee recently secured the film rights to "Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand," William J. Mann’s 2012 unauthorized 2012 biography of the 71-year-old singer and actress.
NYU film student Mauricio Osaki learned a tough lesson about the movie industry this month when he showcased his short film at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles.
America has always been a creative place, partly because the authors of the Constitution wanted it to be.
It is absolutely amazing to me that some Republicans and a number of Democrats, as well as some of the populous, believe that the NSA's secret program that is subverting the Constitution by capturing all of Americans phone conversations and email activity is a good idea.
Regarding the letter about the frogs being freed, on the contrary, I found it so beautiful and refreshing.
In the continuing dialogue regarding the introduction of more gun control in America, Valley Voice columnist Bill Borden on June 6 makes the argument that having a gun can often prevent a serious crime.
Unfortunately, Ms. Losi's letter is indicative of the attitude of many of her contemporaries.
Why are we not using tents, like Arizona to house our criminals?
Walter Lee Williams — one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives and a former Palm Springs resident — was arrested by Mexican authorities.
The Coachella Valley Unified school board briefly emptied a public board meeting Tuesday night after bubbling tension sparked a shouting match between a union representative, a former board member and disgruntled parents who hope to recall the current school board.
A group called Advocates for Better Community Development has filed a lawsuit against Palm Springs and Wessman Development Co. for failing to place a measure on the ballot after enough valid signatures were gathered to do so.
The Desert Water Agency has started crunching numbers to assess potential financial impacts of a water lawsuit by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, and it estimates that customers could see sharply higher water bills if the tribe prevails.
An $18 million project to replace the city's aging energy plant, replace incandescent lighting with LED bulbs and install a new irrigation system that can remotely monitor water usage, will help the city become much greener and less wasteful, according to a staff report prepared for the City Council.
More than six hours after Tuesday's regular meeting began, the Desert Hot Springs City Council adopted a budget for fiscal year 2013-14.
Tachevah Block Party sponsors presented a $12,000 check, raised from the block party's beer garden proceeds, to the Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs on Tuesday.
Close to 100 members of the Indio Senior Center took part in a nationwide celebration Tuesday afternoon to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S.
The La Quinta City Council unanimously approved the city's fiscal year 2013-14 budget Tuesday.
All three desert school districts will see boosted funding if Gov. Jerry Brown signs a compromise budget bill, but the magnitude of the these budget increases are difficult to estimate.
The Palm Springs International ShortFest embarked Tuesday on what Executive Director Darryl Macdonald called a 'week-long voyage of discovery' with an overflow number of passengers.
The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying.
There's no guarantee that President Barack Obama's health care law will launch smoothly and on time, congressional investigators say in the first in-depth independent look at its progress.
A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people 'had been mean to her' — then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along with her young daughter, at the hands of three people, authorities said Tuesday.
A Stockton bar owner is using Facebook to build a list of customers welcomed at his establishment after 9 at night -- and to keep troublemakers out.
Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings has died in a car accident in Los Angeles.
About 8 million immigrants living unlawfully in the United States would gain legal status under sweeping legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, adding the bill would push federal deficits lower in each of the next two decades.
The Palm Springs International Shortfest will offer up more than 300 films over the next week, but only one will spotlight a local school, a local tradition and a local filmmaker.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats condemned as another example of what they see as Republicans' war on women.
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