Month: June 2015

The game of golf has been around for over 550 years, but a new game combining two popular sports is all the rage in the United States. “It’s growing faster here in the US than Europe,” says Roberto Balestrini, founder of the American FootGolf League. The game is footgolf, a combination of soccer and golf,

El Mdico Forense del Condado de Riverside identific a la persona muerta en un accidente tipo volcadura cerca de Desert Hot Springs. Operativos preventivos revelaron que el choque occurio al filo de las tres de la tarde ayer en los carriles haca el oeste de la Carretera Interestatal 62, al norte de Indian Canyon Drive.

Police arrested two men on the evening of Wednesday, June 10 after discovering stolen property in their car that was taken from a hotel room in Palm Springs. According to Lieutenant Mike Kovaleff with the Palm Springs Police Department, 20-year-old Nick Tulli and 19-year-old Adrian Navarro, both from Palm Springs, were taken into custody after

Se escucharon los ltimos argumentos hoy en el caso de un hombre de Cathedral City que al parecer cay en las garras del crimen. Se le acusa de varios robos a lo largo y ancho del Valle de Coachella y el Condado de San Bernardino. El sealado como criminal Arthur Byrd de 41 aos fue

The Coachella Valley Unified School District’s Wall-to-Wall Academy program was shared during the ‘National Week of Making’ event held at the White House on Monday morning. District officials said the two programs are similar and designed to engage students in science, technology, engineering, math, arts, athletics, and learning. Now the successes of CVUSD’s program are

The Palm Springs Fire Department has determined the cause of last week’s explosion that hospitalized a man in critical condition with burns to 95% of his body. Investigators said an open natural gas valve caused the explosion and subsequent fire at the Mirage Vista Grande Resort on Monday, June 8, but they don’t know if

A 40-year-old man from New Jersey was killed after crashing on Highway 62 near Desert Hot Springs over the weekend. The Riverside County Coroner’s Office identified the man as Nikolas Samouhos. Officials said he lived in Ridgefield Park, N.J. The crash happened Sunday at about 3 p.m. in the westbound lanes of Highway 62, north

You’ll soon have a chance to buy a pass for Stagecoach 2016 as the advanced sale begins this week. The festival takes place Friday, April 29 through Sunday, May 1. Organizers said festival passes go on sale Friday, June 19 at 11 a.m. and will be available to purchase for one week, or while supplies

Southern California Edison has removed its power outage alert for Desert Hot Springs after an equipment upgrade knocked out electricity for 437 customers for several hours on Monday. The outage occurred around 8 a.m. SCE’s estimated time of restoration was 5 p.m. but the outage alert was removed sometime around 4 p.m. SCE says the

Dianna Bedwell Knutson and her husband Cecil went missing on Sunday May 10, 2015 after leaving a San Diego area casino and heading toward Dianna’s son’s home in La Quinta, California to celebrate Mother’s Day. We know now, the couple took what they thought was a shortcut and ended up stranded in mud and without

The California Supreme Court is set to decide a case with the potential to invalidate affordable housing requirements in cities across the state. At issue in the ruling expected Monday is a 2010 San Jose law that requires some new residential developments to set aside 15 percent of their units for sale at below-market rates.

Just when things seem to traditionally slow down in the desert, it seems the “season” is getting increasingly longer, bringing a younger crowd with it. The fourth annual Splash House Festival may soon join the ranks of other valley music festivals like Stagecoach and Coachella. “Because there is a slow down and because we’ve got

One person was hospitalized from a crash involving a suspected drunken driver in La Quinta Saturday, authorities said. The crash was at 12:23 p.m. at Calle Tampico and Washington Street in La Quinta, according to Jennifer Fuhrman of the Riverside County Fire Department. A green Honda Civic was traveling south on Washington Street and hit

The Desert Recreation District kicked off the summer pool season on Saturday with its annual Operation Splash. Through the program the district provides valuable swim lessons to children in the community. District employees said drowning scares are a problem at some of their community pools. “Particularly at our Pawly pool and here at Bagdouma pool

UPDATE: The road is back open. CHP reported only minor injuries. A crash between a semi and a pickup truck closed Dillon Road at the landfill Saturday morning, California Highway Patrol reported. At 6:08 a.m., CHP reported a semi truck and a white Ford Ranger collided in front of the landfill. The semi rolled over,

For residents at the Thunderbird Terrace apartments in Rancho Mirage, it’s out with the old and in with the new. They removed all of their old toilets and shower heads and replaced them with new water efficient ones. With help from the Coachella Valley Water District’s Toilet Rebate Program and the apartment complex owner, 30

Neighbors in Whitewater called for justice Friday after a neighborhood dog was fatally beaten with a shovel and tossed into a field. Update: DA files charges They said it’s an act of unthinkable animal cruelty. “I mean there’s just no call for that at all. They’re just poor animals,” one neighbor, John Mino, said. Rusty,

The plan to use body cameras on deputies in Riverside County is moving forward after the testing period at the Jurupa Valley Station has ended. The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved funds to buy the cameras in 2014. Sheriff Stan Sniff said the department was prepared to continue testing for another 60 to 90

The massive mirrored safe at Steve’s Coin Shop on North Palm Canyon Drive used to be filled with antique solid gold and silver coins. Today, it’s mostly empty boxes. “My father was laying in the hospital dying and someone comes into his shop and loots it for everything that he’s got,” said Ursula Ahajanian, the

Las autoridades le tienen una advertencia el viernes sobre el virus del nilo en el Valle de Coachella y es que los casos del mal aumentan en nuestra regin. El virus del nilo occidental est apareciento temprano en zonas urbanas de Indio y La Quinta. Una posible razn es el clima ms clido. Mayra Perez