City of Palm Desert might stop panel's pay
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.
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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.
College of the Desert is seeking business participants for its sixth annual Career and Job Fair.
Desert Sands Unified School District’s board of education will vote today on eliminating two days from this school year.
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 All-Star Big Band will present “Good Guys and Bad Guys: The Music of Spies and Private Eyes” at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Indian Wells Theater at California State University, San Bernardino's Palm Desert campus.
Palm Desert High School's 2012 graduating committee is holding a rummage sale, bake sale, car wash and e-waste recycling event from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the high school.
U.S. Coast Guard veteran Charlie Bulanti served aboard the Pacific-based attack transport ship USS Arthur Middleton during World War II.
SCORE, the national nonprofit that counsels small businesses and entrepreneurs, will hold a workshop titled “Is Your Business Idea a Good One?” from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Patricia Wolkoff looked through her side view mirrors as Marilyn Poe walked alongside her mini-van. “Can you see her?” Doris Morgan-Hayes repeatedly asked Wolkoff as the three checked mirror adjustments during a CarFit program in Palm Desert.
Power walks down Highway 111 are getting a little bit easier as Palm Desert adds sidewalks to the south side of the valley's major thoroughfare.
Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty for a Palm Desert man accused of killing his neighbor's son and granddaughter over scratches on a pickup.
Theater tours to New York and London will be offered in May by the McCallum Theatre.
Applications for the 2012 Desert Outreach Foundation's annual scholarship program are available to download at the foundation's website.
Lora Murphy is now holding 60-minute Jazzercise classes Wednesday and Friday at 6:30 a.m. and on Saturday at 8:30 a.m. at Joslyn Center.
Rancho Mirage —The City Council voted 4-1 Thursday to pull back on requiring the developers of the Ritz-Carlton hotel to send written reports twice a month and have someone appear in the flesh in front of the council monthly.
Opening statements are scheduled today in the trial of a Palm Desert man accused of trying to kill his neighbor.
Rancho Mirage — Ten years after it opened and six months after anchor tenant Borders Books and Music went out of business, leasing officials at The River are working feverishly to plug the gaps beginning to open at the popular center.
Palm Desert — A Palm Desert police officer had his eyes on the Desert Fountains at Palm Desert apartments as he rode by on a motorcycle Saturday.
A traffic collision involving a big rig and another vehicle slowed traffic on eastbound Interstate 10 near Palm Desert this afternoon.
Full power should be restored by 7 a.m. Thursday to Southern California Edison customers in Palm Desert and unincorporated Riverside County territory near Desert Hot Springs.
It would be difficult to miss Marc Glassman's presence in any room. The tall, slender photographer who towers over most of his photographic subjects has been a quiet fixture chronicling the famous and elite at major charitable events and society galas in the valley for more than three decades.
PALM DESERT — It's hard not to feed the ducks at Civic Center Park. People have been bringing bread to community ponds to feed ducks for generations.
More than 900 athletes age 35 to 92 years old are competing in the 2012 Palm Desert International Sports Festival and Senior Games that got under way on Wednesday and ends Monday.
Hidden away in the south side of the Palms to Pines shopping center nearer to El Paseo than Highway 111, Kabobz Mediterranean Restaurant has garnered a loyal local following since it relocated here four years ago.
A parade of presidents has kept Palm Desert, Indian Wells and Rancho Mirage entwined in political history for nearly a century of Presidents' Days.
After finishing second in the Desert Valley League, the Palm Desert High School girls' water polo team won its first-round match Tuesday against Downey 11-10.
I will be responsible for managing operations of the Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert including daily operations, visitor services, admissions, special events, and in conjunction with the curatorial and education departments will oversee exhibition and education programs.
“Smile on your face. Full facial expression. Point your feet.”
If you lack the know-how to whip up a batch of melomakarona, loukoumathes or baklava, fear not.
Sun City never ceases to amaze me. Because of the interesting background of so many of its residents.
News from around Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells and Palm Desert...
Full power should be restored by 7 a.m. Thursday to Southern California Edison customers in Palm Desert and unincorporated Riverside County territory near Desert Hot Springs.
California Highway Patrol investigators closed lanes on Interstate 10 Wednesday as they revisited the site of a Feb. 5 crash that killed a 9-month-old girl.
A Mecca man suspected of stealing electronics from a Palm Desert home and other locations was free on $30,000 bail today.
Drivers in Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert, beware. Lane closures on two of the Coachella Valley’s major roads — Ramon Road and Highway 111 — could lead to traffic delays today.
PALM DESERT — It couldn't have been any closer Tuesday as the Palm Desert High School girls' water polo team edged Downey in overtime 11-10 in the first round of the Division VI playoffs.
A free screening of the award-winning environmental documentary “Bag It” will be held at 6 p.m. Feb. 23 at the University of California, Riverside, Palm Desert campus.
Southbound motorists on Highway 111 near Fred Waring Drive in Palm Desert should expect some delays from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday due to work being done by the Coachella Valley Water District.
Palm Desert — A retired interior designer has willed her extensive collection of designer clothing to Revivals, the thrift store that benefits client services at the Desert AIDS Project.
Delays were expected on a major Palm Desert thoroughfare today for work on a traffic signal, a city spokesman said.
The street fair at College of the Desert will expand to three days on Presidents Day weekend.
Proposals are being accepted from local artists, art groups and collectors interested in exhibiting their work for two months in the Palm Desert Community Gallery.
U.S. Army Air Corps vet Earl Ulmer — a bombardier/navigator on a B-26 Marauder crew — flew 42 combat missions during World War II.
Comic Joan Rivers didn't edit her candidness as host of the 18th annual Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards gala Saturday.
PALM DESERT — Madeline Muth took first prize in the American Association of University Women's Speech Trek contest Saturday.
PALM DESERT — Television chefs will appear at the Palm Desert Food & Wine Festival, an event spokeswoman said Friday.
PALM DESERT — Brigitte Crisp's goal helped cap a late-season turnaround that led the Palm Desert High School's girls' soccer team to a share of the Desert Valley League title Friday night.
Great softball for a great cause is on display at College of the Desert today.
A main line failure was blamed for knocking out electricity Friday to 1,331 Southern California Edison customers in Palm Desert.
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