Month: April 2019

East Valley residents and some employees are raising questions about The Coachella Valley School District and its spending priorities as it prepares to open a brand new district headquarters building. In an I-team Investigation, Jeff Stahl looked into a March 21 school board vote to approve $150,000 worth of office furniture for the new district

Desert Hot Springs police are seeking a man and woman who abandoned a couple of dogs that appear to be pit bulls in front of the Desert Hot Springs Animal Care and Control Office Thursday night. The pair came to the office, which is located at 65810 Hacienda Avenue, set up a makeshift kennel, and

The window for getting your hands on Coachella passes tends to be tight. If you didn’t have your hands on them by the time the sun went down on January 4, and if you didn’t live locally, you’d probably have to pay an exorbitant price to attend the festival. On Wednesday, the festival organizers opened

Friday is the annual FIND Food Bank Telethon, and this year’s focus is on preventative food banking and healthy choices. Get ready for the annual FIND Food Bank Telethon As the desert’s regional food bank, FIND distributes around 5 million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables to more than 140 partner agencies all around the

Parents and teachers are still uneasy after a hidden camera was found at Saul Martinez elementary school in Coachella. The Coachella Valley Unified School District had their board meeting Thursday night where the incident and resulting investigation were brought up. Carissa Carrera, the president of the Coachella Valley Teacher’s Association, took the stand at the

A long-time resident of the Coachella who loved and rescued animals in the community found a way to cement her and her husband’s passion. Kathy and her husband set aside $120,000 in a trust that, upon their passing, would go to Guide Dogs of the Desert. The non-profit organization matches blind individuals with a guide

More than 270 rallies demanding the release of Robert Mueller’s report are being held across the nation Thursday, including here in the Coachella Valley. The movement is part of National Day of Action, declared by MoveOn.org. The #ReleaseTheReport rally is intended to unite communities together to call on Attorney General William Barr to release the

As festival season draws nearer, local police are preparing for the influx of crowds and the traffic that clogs the valley’s streets around this time every year. Construction vehicles can be seen whirring by as crews put the finishing touches on the Empire Polo Club ahead of Coachella and Stagecoach next week. They aren’t the

A local woman is speaking out after she and her dog were mauled by a pit bull while walking last night in La Quinta. “He was six years old and really just a real cutie pie. He didn’t deserve to go that way, that’s for sure,” Gina Nortica said. She is fighting back tears after

A local man living in Australia is hospitalized after being brutally attacked. 32-year-old Oscar Villagrana of Cathedral City was beaten unconscious twice while walking away from a public transportation stop in Preston, Victoria, Australia last Wednesday night. Victoria Police said Oscar required emergency surgery to stop bleeding in his brain and has suffered serious memory

On their fifth day of deliberations, jurors declared themselves deadlocked today in the trial of two reputed gang members accused in the 2015 shooting death of a 19-year-old man in Indio, but the panel will return to court tomorrow to see if the stalemate can be broken. Martin Gutierrez Jr., 24, and Enrique Villa Alvarez,

Two arrested for child endangerment after authorities find five-year-old living in unsafe conditions. Rodney Berry, 29, and Shaquetta Turner, 29 were arrested Tuesday night by deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Morongo Basin station. According to SBCSD, deputies were originally called to the 73000 block of Sunnyslope Drive in Twentynine Palms Tuesday evening

Un joven originario del Valle de Coachella fue víctima de un ataque cuando se encontraba caminando en una de las calles de una ciudad de Australia. Las cámaras captaron el momento en el que un hombre se le acerca a Oscar Villagrana de 32 años de edad y lo golpea dejándolo tirado en el pavimento

El hombre acusado de disparar fatalmente a cuatro personas en Palm Springs en febrero apareció en el Centro de Justicia de Larson en Indio el jueves por la mañana para una audiencia secreta. Jose Larín García, de 19 años, es acusado en los asesinatos de Jacob Montgomery, 19; Juan Duarte Raya, 18; Yuliana García, 17;

A German man wanted by Interpol for an armed bank robbery in his home country was arrested in Joshua Tree. Thomas Tabbert, 61, was arrested by the Yucca Valley Multiple Enforcement Team without incident Wednesday afternoon at a vacant business on 61693 Twentynine Palms Highway, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Tabbert had

The Oasis Awards celebrate the Coachella Valley’s multi-billion dollar tourism industry, recognizing the contributions of people who work in the hospitality industry. Among the honorees was the president and CEO of Goldenvoice Paul Tollett, who’s turned the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and Stagecoach, into world renowned events which bring in hundreds of thousands

The person who was found wandering in a Kentucky neighborhood is not Timmothy Pitzen, who disappeared nearly eight years ago, the FBI said Thursday. That individual told authorities he was the missing child from Aurora, Illinois, and described how he fled from his alleged kidnappers and ran across a bridge into Kentucky, according to a

Rock bands Sammy Hagar & The Circle and Bad Company will headline The Desert Classic PGA TOUR golf event’s 2019 Concert Series in January. The rockers will perform after golf on Friday and Saturday evenings on the driving range at PGA WEST following the golf tournament. “We are excited to bring back our popular golf

The lineups are set. Kanye West will be there, and so will Guy Fieri. Indio is once again welcoming thousands of festival-goers for Coachella and Stagecoach, which also means that there will be a major influx of cars headed into the Coachella Valley in the coming weeks. Things will probably get pretty rough, especially once

President Donald Trump said Thursday he would delay closing the border with Mexico for a year, apparently backtracking on his earlier threat to seal off the southern border as early as this week. Trump told reporters at the White House that he would give Mexico a year to halt the flow of illegal drugs coming