Month: May 2014

Some Coachella Valley schools are getting makeovers, helping to make recess the best period of the day. Thanks to money from the Measure E bond passed in 2008, all elementary schools in the Palm Springs unified school district will have new playgrounds. Landau Elementary School in Cathedral City is getting a $690,000 playground makeover for

Cal Fire officials are preparing for a long, dangerous fire season in the state and are requesting for people to do their part to protect themselves and their property. “It’s critical now that the public hears the message that we are in critical fire danger statewide,” said Chief Kevin Pimlott, Cal Fire’s director. Cal Fire

Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, will introduce new legislation next week that aims to provide training for jobs in the renewable energy fields, his office announced today. Ruiz will make the announcement at noon Wednesday at College of theDesert’s Desert Energy Enterprise Center in Palm Springs. The legislation would promote training for renewable energy careers

El Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside busca a los propietarios de unos objetos robados. Se trata de artculos electrnicos, asi como joyeria, incluso una bicicleta motorizada y un vestido de novia. 17 vctimas de los amantes de lo ajeno fueron despojados de sus artculos . Ahora, se espera que pronto reclamen sus pertenencias.

Un temblor de 6 coma 4 grados de magnitud sacudi el centro y sur de mxico, pero an no se ha informado sobre vctimas. el epicentro fue localizado 23 kilmetros al oeste de tecpan, en el sureo estado de Guerrero, y a 10 kilmetros de profundidad. el sismo dur unos 30 segundos y se sinti

La incidencia de sfilis en Estados Unidos ha alcanzado su nivel ms alto desde 1995 y el incremento ha sido fundamentalmente entre los varones, informaron el jueves las autoridades de salud de Estados Unidos. La sfilis sigue siendo menos comn en Estados Unidos que otras enfermedades de transmisin sexual, pero ha habido un constante aumento

A motorcyclist was hit by a car on Highway 62 around 1 p.m. Friday. According to CHP, the man was riding northbound just past Dillon Road when he pulled over due to windy conditions. When he pulled back onto the road, he was hit by a woman driving a sedan. The man was knocked off

El Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside tiene un nuevo miembro en su Unidad K-9, un olfato ms para ayudar a atrapar a vndalos. Se trata de “Windy” una hembra de 11 meses “Sabueso” quien se convierte en el ms nuevo del equipo. Los oficiales comentaron que la unidad de caninos entrenados los ha

A man was arrested on Thursday after Border Patrol agents found heroin and methamphetamine concealed in the gas tank of his car. The 24 year old suspect was driving a Nissan Sentra when he was stopped at about 8 a.m. near Highway 98 and Coyote Number 1 Road, according to a release from the El

A Palm Desert non-profit will hold its 7th annualJuneteenth celebration in La Quinta next month to raise money for its foster care program. The Family Health & Support Network’s Juneteenth in the Coachella Valley is scheduled for June 14 at La Quinta Resort and commemorates the emancipation of slaves in Texas and the United States

Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist Charles Krauthammer will speak in Indian Wells as part of next year’s Desert Town Hall speakers series, it was announced Friday. Krauthammer, a Washington Post columnist, Fox News commentator, author and physician, will speak March 25, 2015 at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa, according to series spokeswoman Chris Martello. Krauthammer’s

Firefighters are investigating an overnight fire in Thousand Palms. Crews responded to the 32200 block of Wells Fargo Road at 11:13 Thursday night. When they arrived they found smoke pouring from a mobile home. Firefighters contained the flames after about a half hour. No one was inside the home at the time of the fire

An explosion at an explosives plant sounds like a dog-bites-dog story, but this one had people alarmed. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that Alpha Explosives regularly tests its products at its Southern California facility, but the company set off a bigger-than-usual blast on Thursday. Corona Fire Department spokeswoman Lynn Mata said the explosion just outside city

Police say a student who shouted “Get out!” over the public address system at a Southern California school was just worried a teacher was coming, and not trying to make others think they were in danger. Fontana police said Thursday that no students at Heritage Intermediate School will face charges over the May 2 incident.

We are learning the Marriott Fairfield Inn in Palm Desert is salvageable after that four-alarm fire nearly two weeks ago. A clean up company, American Technologies, is working around the clock to get the hotel ready to be rebuilt, but there is still a lot of work to be done. On April 28th, the Fairfield

A program called Get on the Bus helped more than three dozen children visit their moms at a California prison before Mother’s Day on Sunday. The nonprofit arranges for inmates’ children to visit their parents in California prisons around Mother’s and Father’s days. The organization says more than half wouldn’t see their incarcerated parent without

The Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians is building a new housing community in Palm Springs. Members of the tribe and other city leaders broke ground for the new facility on Thursday. The Vallera Palm Springs housing community will house 52 single-family homes on Tribal trust land within the reservation. It’s located at the corner

Electric automaker Tesla Motors will open its first sales and service center in the Coachella Valley today. The grand opening of Tesla Palm Springs is at 10 a.m. at 68080 Perez Road in Cathedral City — the former site of a Hyundai dealership in the Cathedral City Auto Center. The facility is the only Tesla

Adam Santana is an English teacher with the Coachella Valley Unified School District. But he fears it won’t be for long. He’s one of 54 teachers who got a pink slip in March, but still doesn’t have a straight answer about why. “I was under the impression at the beginning we were losing our jobs

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department took a big step towards the LGBT community on Thursday. The state’s second largest sheriff’s department announced the addition of a policy addressing how the jail and corrections department interacts with the transgender community. It’s estimated that there’s 6,000-9,000 people in Riverside county who identify themselves as transgender. It’s a