Month: April 2013

Coachella Valley residents can buy passes for theCoachella and Stagecoach music festivals online starting today. Starting at 10 a.m., residents can buy up to two passes for bothweekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — April 12-14 and 19-21 — and/or for the Stagecoach country music festival, which is scheduledApril 26-29, according to

The gusty west winds that blew through the mountainand desert areas of Riverside County and the Coachella Valley overnight areexpected to continue through early Tuesday, according to the National WeatherService. A trough of low pressure moving inland through the Great Basin pushedwinds of 20 to 30 miles per hour, with gusts of up to 50

This weekend’s White Party, the annual gay danceand music festival held in Palms Springs, set a new attendance record,according to its producer. The festivities began Friday and wrapped up Sunday with a splashyoutdoor extravaganza staged across from the Palm Springs Convention Center. “White Party was originally designed to be a weekend getaway for theL.A. boys,”

Riverside County supervisors today will begin the process of figuring out how to address multi-million-dollar deficits confronting the sheriff’s department and the county hospital going into the next fiscal year. The first budget workshop focusing on appropriations for departments in2013-14 will be held at the County Administrative Center starting around 9 a.m. “While the county

Police in Palm Desert are looking for a Hispanic man who attacked two others over the weekend. Police responded to a report of a fight at the intersection of Fred Waring Drive and One Quail place in Palm Desert just after 9 Friday night. Authorities say two men were injured during a fight with a