Month: February 2019

Due to a chance of rain in the forecast, several restaurants in downtown Palm Springs are being forced to adjust their plans to accommodate guests on Valentine’s Day. Check out our weather radar! Restaurant owners say the holiday is usually one of the busiest nights of the year but for those with outdoor seating the

After nearly two years of legal cannabis cultivation in Cathedral City, the industry generated $1.5M of tax revenue last year and is expected to exceed $2.5M this year. When it first took off, the pungent smell was a problem for residents and nearby businesses – even several blocks away from cannabis facilities. City officials say

Some residents in Indio are upset over a mental health facility set to be built near their neighborhood. Indio Behavioral Health Center is slated as a more than 70,000 sq. foot facility with 80 beds for patients with mental health disorders like substance abuse, depression, schizophrenia, PTSD, and more. It will be built on Buffalo

Interstate 10 eastbound is heavily backed up due to a rollover accident near the Washington Street exit. According to the California Highway Patrol, they originally received reports of a reckless driver on the I-10. When an officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop, the vehicle went off of the roadway and overturned. Fire personnel determined

For festival-goers, the world’s largest online marketplace will be at the fingertips come April. Amazon announced that they will be installing Amazon lockers at the Empire Polo Club in Indio for both Coachella weekends (April 12-14 and April 19-21) this year. “Customers will have the ability to order everything they need – whether it’s a

Dos hombres han sido arrestados bajo sospecha de asesinato en relación con la desaparición de una niña de 16 años de Moreno Valley. Amanda Briones fue vista por última vez el 13 de enero despues de una noche con amigos en Moreno Valley. Owen Skyler Shover, de 18 años, y Gary Anthony Shover, de 21

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is preparing to deliver his first State of the State address a day after declaring he wouldn’t participate in the Trump administration’s “political theater” over border security. The Democratic governor is likely to ratchet up his rhetoric against President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s address, a month into Newsom’s governorship. He said

NUEVA YORK (AP) – Las noticias más recientes sobre el juicio al narcotraficante mexicano Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán (todo en horas locales): 12:20 El jurado en el juicio al narcotraficante mexicano Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán acordó un veredicto el martes, en su sexto día de deliberaciones. El jurado en el tribunal en Brooklyn ya regresó

A free information session from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which will cover topics ranging from immigration scams to citizenship eligibility, will be held in Palm Springs today. The USCIS event, known as Information Booth Mexican Consulate on Wheels, will provide the public an opportunity to ask community relations officers general immigration questions in

The Riverside County Coroner’s Office has identified the man and woman killed in a plane crash Tuesday night in Morongo Valley. Jaeryung Rachel Park, 28, of Los Angeles and Jungho Ju, 32, a Korean national, were killed when their single-engine Cessna 172 crashed “under unknown circumstances’” into the side of the canyon on Hwy 62

The Palm Springs Leadership Association honored a student at each school in the district who was nominated by their school principal. Students from every PSUSD elementary, middle, and high school who succeed despite facing one or more significant obstacles or challenges were nominated. “It’s really exciting for the student because they are deserving to be

Rancho Mirage High School’s “Sound and Pageantry” students volunteered to help clean up the community. The students, along with some parents and Palm Springs Unified School District staff, woke up early Saturday morning to help clean an area out in Thermal. This was all done through the Riverside County Youth Clean-Up Program, which helps local

Tax season is here and many early filers are seeing smaller than average refunds. “I thought we were going to receive money back, but we didn’t this year. We’re owing a lot more than I expected,” said Alex Santana, a local resident who filed his taxes Monday afternoon. Santana said he usually gets anywhere between

A Coachella Valley man accused of molesting two underage girls about a decade ago pleaded not guilty today to a half-dozen felony counts. John Williams, 53, of Thousand Palms, is facing six counts of lewd acts with children under the age of 14, with a sentence-enhancing allegation of more than one victim. One of the

Grammy nods and festival slots can make a career for someone looking to succeed in the music industry. The band Sofi Tukker knows it first hand. Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern became friends in college at Brown University. The first song they ever made together, “Drinkee,” went on to be Grammy nominated in 2017. “It

The city of Palm Springs is making itself more competitive in vying for tourist dollars thanks to a new campaign launched Monday. Three words that say it all, a new marketing campaign by the Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism, highlighting local businesses. “Small businesses really are the fabric of Palm Springs. We’re the folks that

Desert X is in full swing with both locals and valley visitors exploring the desert landscape in search of this year’s art installations. To make the hunt easier, 18-year-old Hunter Martin, a senior at Xavier College Prep, decided to design a user-friendly app, available for download here. Martin says he started coding when he was

Monday morning at the “Sun Center” in south Palm Springs, things appeared relatively quiet, with shoppers coming and going. But, a day prior, the parking lot was the scene of what police call “a large fight” outside Zelda’s Nightclub. “When you see all this, and its shocking, you don’t feel safe coming out to this

El 9 de febrero aproximadamente a las 2:45 a.m., un peatón fue golpeado y asesinado en Indio. Un peatón no identificado fue golpeado en dirección oeste por la carretera interestatal 10, al oeste de Jackson Street. Un Honda 2009 estaba conduciendo hacia el oeste por la carretera interestatal 10, al oeste de Jackson cuando el

Border patrol agents find methamphetamine in a car battery. According to a news release by El Centro Sector Border Patrol, Saturday at about 11:51 AM, a 40-year-old woman driving a black 2004 Honda Accord approached the Highway 86 immigration checkpoint. The vehicle was sent to secondary inspection after agents were alerted by a canine detection