Month: June 2013

The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Warning for the Coachella Valley. Temperatures are expected to rise above 115 degrees on Sunday. Palm Springs reached 122 degrees Saturday making it the hottest June day in history, says the National Weather Service. The previous hottest day in June was 121 degrees, on June 29th,

We are following two brush fires in the east valley. One is in Coachella on Fillmore, near Airport Boulevard. The second brush fire is in Thermal, near Avenue 62 and Pierce. Stay with us for the latest. 5:42 p.m. update: The15 acre fire has been contained. It started at 3:30 p.m. Cal Fire is patrolling

This week a new era began for Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. It became the Coachella Valley’s first teaching hospital as it launched its residency program. On Friday, the doctors in training got to know the staff at Eisenhower as they dished out ice cream at an ice cream social held in the hospital’s

For the first time in over four years, a same-sex couple is set to tie the knot in Los Angeles. Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, two plaintiffs who successfully challenged Proposition 8 before the Supreme Court, will marry at 6:15 p.m. Friday at LA City Hall. The pair announced their plans minutes after a federal

A fire blazing in Mentone has grown to 200 acres and is threatening homes. The fire broke out near Mill Creek Road and Bryant Street in Mentone, near Highway 38. As you probably know, temperatures across southern California are in the hundreds today, making the fire that much more difficult to fight. 20766410

Same-sex couples in Palm Springs and across the state were cleared today to get married, with a federal appeals court lifting a stay it had placed on the unions while the case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The nation’s highest court ruled Wednesday that supporters of Proposition 8 — the voter-approved measure that

An Aug. 26 trial date was set today for a man accused of fatally shooting a woman and wounding two men after being denied entry to a Cathedral City house party. Gabriel Cuevas Cardoza, 33, also faces weapons and drug charges in a separate case. Cardoza was free on $100,000 bail in that case when

A five-hour long standoff ended Friday night outside of the St. Tropez Villas, located at the corner of Calle El Segundo and Alejo, in Palm Springs. Police responded to reports of a suspicious woman inside the complex. Arriving, they discovered the woman and a man inside of a garage, burglarizing one of the condos. Officers

A woman threatening to pull a gun on a cashier robbed a department store in Riverside today, fleeing just before police arrived. The robbery happened at 10:01 a.m. at a Nordstrom outlet in the Galleria at Tyler Mall, located just off the Riverside (91) Freeway on Tyler Street. “A woman in a cowboy hat approached

A Jazzercise convention in La Quinta, starting later today, will feature the filming of a new DVD. More than 900 people are expected at Jazzercise’s Fitness Fiesta, which starts at 4:30 p.m. and runs through Saturday at the La Quinta Resort & Club. Jazzercise, a dance fitness program founded in 1969, has 7,800 franchisees around

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.5 struck today four miles north-northwest of Anza, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The quake struck at 10:45 a.m. 15 miles east-southeast of Hemet and 16 miles south-southwest of Palm Springs, according to the USGS.

Wow, it sure is hot out, and it’s only going to get hotter. If you don’t have air conditioning, you should really consider going to a cooling center. We have a list of them, click here to see where there are.

The House and its conservative majority are coming under pressure to act after the Senate passed a landmark immigration bill opening the door to U.S. citizenship to millions while pouring billions of dollars into securing the border with Mexico. President Barack Obama, traveling in Africa, called Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,

Riverside County Sheriff’s has confirmed they are investigating a robbery at theEl Mercadito Meat Market near Palm Drive and Dillon Road on the border of Desert Hot Springs. There are few details on the incident at this time. What we do know is that the robbery happened around 9:30 a.m., the suspects have not been

An allegedly alcohol-impaired driver who fled after hitting a pickup truck only to crash into a tree in Coachella was released from jail today. Pedro Manzo Angon, 22, of Coachella, was arrested just after 9 p.m. Thursday after he drove an SUV into a pickup at the intersection of Avenue 50 and Harrison Street and

Temperatures reached 118 in Palm Springs today at around 2:30 p.m., tying the record for the area. A strong ridge of high pressure will strengthen over the west, bringing very hot conditions to the inland areas through Sunday. Temperature records will likely break this weekend as well. A gradual cooling trend will then develop for

Locals and visitors have until Sunday to visit the Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage before it closes for the summer.Sunnylands recently played host to President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping on June 7 and 8. The estate was built for Ambassador Walter Annenberg and his wife Leonore in the 1960s. You can get more

Road construction in the La Quinta cove is causing headaches for some residents. The city is building a roundabout, expected to take about four months and it’s drawing a mixed response from people in the area. “It’s very inconvenient because now I have all the traffic on Velasco,” said Gustavo Ramirez, who lives nearby. “Before,