Month: January 2015

An independent commission is recommending officials find ways to attract younger and ethnically diverse people from the cities to visit California’s state parks. Parks Forward will make its recommendations on Friday when it turns in a report to state lawmakers. Recommendations also include forming a non-profit to partner with other organizations and creating a team

Police are investigating a crash in Palm Desert after a car hit a bicyclist. It happened shortly after 8:00 p.m. Thursday night at the intersection of Country Club Drive and Washington Street. The bicyclist suffered moderate injuries. The driver is cooperating with authorities and the crash is under investigation.

The Indio Police Department arrested a man near Ocotillo Avenue Thursday morning, but officers continue to search for another suspect who’s still on the run. According to Sgt. Dan Marshall with the Indio Police Department, officers attempted to pull a car over Thursday morning when the driver failed to stop and a pursuit began. The

A Coachella Valley Couple is being accused for a 2nd time of murder in the death of a La Quinta toddler back in 2003. One of their daughters says prosecutors have this case and her parents all wrong. She says they shouldn’t be going through this again after a judge ruled in 2003 there was

UPDATE: Suspect arrested on active armed robbery warrant The Indio Police Department is looking for the public’s help to find 20-year-old Narcisco Jacob Pea. Pea is wanted for the armed robbery of four victims on Jan. 18 in the 80700 block of Diamondback Trail in the City of Indio. During the robbery, a police car

El Departamento de Salubridad del Condado de Riverside le solicit a los distritos escolares del valle que identifiquen a estudiantes que no han recibido sus vacunas contra el sarampin y que se mantengan vigilantes debido a los recientes casos de exposicin al sarampin en el sur de California. Este orden de acciones sucedio despus de

Local school districts have been directed by the Riverside County Health Department to identify students who have not been vaccinated, to stay proactive with recent measles exposures in Southern California. The Desert Sands Unified School District released 66 students from Palm Desert High School Wednesday because they weren’t listed as receiving the full immunization for

Update: Police arrest two men, including Verizon employee The La Quinta Police Department is looking for a man who robbed a Verizon store at gunpoint Wednesday night. Officers said the man walked into the store, located in the 78000 block of Highway 111, pulled a gun on employees and demanded money and cell phones. He

El nmero de fallecidos por la explosin de un camin cisterna de gas frente a un hospital de la capital mexicana aument a siete, as lo dieron a conocer este jueves fuentes oficiales. Tres muertos adultos y cuatro menores fallecidos, dijo a la emisora MVS Adrin Rubalcava, el jefe de la delegacin de Cuajimalpa, la

Esta maana Agentes del Departamento de Polica de Indio realizaban una vigilancia en North Indio en conexin con una asalto a mano armada cuando escucharon una balacera cerca de Ocotillo Ave. De acuerdo con la polica, los detectives han cerrado algunas calles en el rea al este de Monroe Street y as permanecer mientras la

News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2 have learned more about a routine overnight traffic stop Wednesday that turned into a high speed chase throughout Indio and Palm Desert. According to the California Highway Patrol, officers tried to pull over 30-year-old Nicholas Rios of Vista around 11 p.m. for a traffic violation near the CHP

The state Department of Water Resources says it expects to find below-normal snowpack when it carries the winter’s second survey in the Sierra Nevada. The department says measurements at an elevation of about 6,800 feet some 90 miles east of Sacramento will being Thursday morning. Results should be available by early afternoon. The water content

Indio Councilman Michael Wilson took to Facebook earlier this month expressing disappointment over Mayor Lupe Ramos Watson’s unilateral decision to do away with invocations before city council meetings. “The appropriate process should have been to discuss it with the council and then make a decision,” Wilson said. Wilson says invocations are a long-standing tradition with

The Desert Sands Unified School District released 66 students from Palm Desert High School by the end of the school Wednesday because they haven’t received the full immunization for measles.? Officials said they’re making the move to take every precaution to ensure student and staff safety. Parents of these students received a call from the

En 1985, la agencia de transporte pblico Sunline se traslad a instalaciones provisionales en Thousand Palms. Ahora, un nuevo edificio de 25,000 pies cuadrados valuado en millones de dlares sobre Varner Road es el nuevo hogar de los empleados de la agencia antes mencionada. Cuenta con una habitacin para conferencias disponible para el pblico en

Homeowners in Bermuda Dunes say sandbags found in drainage pipes around the Easthaven Apartments may be to blame for the damage that was done to their home in a rain storm last summer. Almost a dozen sandbags were pulled out of a drainage system earlier this month by the Riverside County Department of Transportation and

A 12-year-old boy was arrested after phoning in a fake bomb threat at Walmart in Yucca Valley Tuesday afternoon while he was riding home on a school bus. According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, the Yucca Valley Walmart, located at 58501 Twentynine Palms Highway, received a phone call around 2:20 p.m. from someone

Phathways to Sucesss, est coordinando su quinta reunin para informar a los estudiantes del valle de Coachella sobre los beneficios que la organizacin ofrece, los padres de familia podrn acudr junto con sus hijos para saber de que manera llenar una aplicacin. La Oficina de Ayuda Federal para Estudiantes tiene la responsabilidad de gestionar los