Month: April 2019

Llega el primer fin de semana de uno de los festivales más famosos del mundo Coachella Fest en su edición numero 20. Muchos son los comerciantes del Valle que se están preparando con muchas más mercancía para poder atender a los miles de personas que empezaron a llegar por el festival. Richard Tomas es uno

Kanye West’s ‘gospel concert’ is all set for April 21 at 9 a.m., according to Indio city manager Scott. The news of West’s performance took eventual festival-goers and the Coachella Valley by surprise, coming in less than a month before the festival was set to kick off. Details were initially limited about the Easter Sunday

In the midst of Coachella Valley’s music festival season, bountiful blooms will be taking over Joshua Tree National Park, and park rangers are reminding visitors to enjoy the extraordinary floral phenomenon with respect. “We’ve got quite a musical legacy out here, ever since Gram Parsons was cremated in the park and U2 chose to title

The Palm Springs Fire Department battled a vegetation fire near Tramway Road & W Racquet Club Road Tuesday night. Fire crews say the fire was reported around 8:30 p.m. Crews were able to respond in minutes as the blaze was visible from a nearby fire station. They say at one point, flames were more than

UPDATE 12:42: P.M. – Power has been restored. **** 800 Imperial Irrigation District customers are without power in Indio. The outage, which was officially reported by IID’s twitter account at 12:04 p.m., is affecting customers in the area of Monroe Avenue and Highway 111. A troubleshooter is en route to the scene. A viewer reached

The set times for Coachella weekend 1 have been released. The daily breakdown for the music festival’s first weekend was released on Coachella’s Twitter at 11:04 Wednesday morning. Cool Era and Dave P will be the very first performances of this year’s festival, with performances starting at 12 PM Friday on the Sonora and Yuma

A hiker was rescued this morning after being injured on a Palm Desert trail. According to Cal Fire, a call for a remote area rescue went in at 10:52 a.m. in the area of the 72000 block of Thrush Road in Palm Desert. Emergency crews hiked the Homestead trail and found an injured hiker. The

Empleados del Distrito Escolar de Palm Springs negocian un aumento en sus salarios para obtener más dinero en su próximo contrato despues del próximo año escolar. Portando camisetas en blanco y negro llenaron la sala de juntas de PSUSD. Docenas de empleados se mantuvieron juntos durante un período de negociación contractual con el distrito solicitando

A memorial procession of motorcyclists rode across the valley Saturday in remembrance of fallen Palm Springs Police Department officers Jose Gil Vega and Lesley Zerebny, raising thousands of dollars for charity. More than 100 motorcyclists took to the streets, starting with a tribute at the Palm Springs Police Station and stopping at police stations across

Palm Springs police and firefighters went to bat on Sunday for the second annual Lesley Zerebny memorial softball game. The gate itself was at big league dreams sports park in Cathedral City. All ticket and raffle sales benefitted the Palm Springs police officer’s and firefighter’s memorial funds. Officer Zerebny was tragically shot and killed alongside

UPDATE: Gabriel Villalva has been found safe. *** Police are seeking the public’s help finding a missing at-risk teen in Indio. 17-year-old Gabriel Villalva was last seen at 11:00 a.m. this morning. He was seen leaving a group home in the area of Clinton Street and Indio Boulevard. Gabriel needs medication and did not have

Roadwork, generally speaking, isn’t all that entertaining. Laying down asphalt, repairing guardrails, and replacing road signs are entirely necessary tasks that Cal Trans crews have had to undertake following a historic Valentine’s Day flood that did some severe damage to the main roads in and out of the mountain communities. On Tuesday, however, Caltrans District

El Departamento de Bomberos de Palm Springs combatió un incendio de vegetación cerca de Tramway Road y W Racquet Club Road el martes por la noche. Los equipos de bomberos dicen que el incendio se informó alrededor de las 8:30 p.m. Las tripulaciones pudieron responder en minutos, ya que el incendio era visible desde una

Accused cop killer John Hernandez Felix is not intellectually disabled, a judge ruled Friday morning. This means the man charged with the slayings of two Palm Springs police officers is mentally fit to be executed, if found guilty. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/JakeKESQ/status/1055870616950071297″,”author_name”:”Jake Ingrassia”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/JakeKESQ”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;&#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#BREAKING&#lt;/a&#gt; – Judge Anthony Villalobos says the defense has not met the

An appellate court has denied the appeal of a judge’s decision to allow a man accused of fatally shooting two Palm Springs police officers to face the death penalty in his upcoming murder trial. John Hernandez Felix, 28, is accused of gunning down veteran training Officer Jose Gilbert Vega, 63, and rookie Officer Lesley Zerebny,

With opening statements looming in the trial of a man accused of killing two Palm Springs police officers, a prosecutor said today she plans to introduce evidence of past contacts between the defendant and police, suggest they could point to a possible motive for the 2016 shooting. John Hernandez Felix, 28, is charged with two

Legendary norteño & regional Mexican music band, Los Tucanes de Tijuana will receive the key to the City of Coachella for “their profound impact within the local community.” Not only is the band the first norteño/regional Mexican group to play the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, but they are also now the first musicians in

Employees with the Palm Springs Unified School District are getting an early start on their push for more money in their next contract after next school year. A wave of black and white t-shirts filled the PSUSD board room. Dozens of employees stood together during a contract bargaining period with the district asking for a

Palm Desert senior Carlie Williams is a future Division 1 athlete for the Aztecs. She says her journey to softball success began ten years ago at home. “It really started with just my brothers playing baseball so I followed in their steps and played softball,” said Williams. She eventually made her way to pitching and