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Month: March 2023

City with world’s most expensive housing asks: what to do with 40,000 empty quarantine units?

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Behind the gleaming skyscrapers and multimillion-dollar homes that have made this city the world’s most expensive property market lies a far less attractive parallel reality: one of the world’s seemingly most intractable housing crises. Welcome to Hong Kong, where the average home sells for well north of a million dollars —

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Windy weekend, more rain chances next week

While we’ve dried up in the desert following the most recent round of rain, areas just west of us and mountain communities continue to see scattered showers. Here’s a look at how much rain we saw locally as of Saturday afternoon. Rainfall Totals Beaumont – 1.01″Cabazon – 0.62″Whitewater – 0.19″Desert Hot Springs – 0.04″Palm Springs

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Tropical Cyclone Freddy hammers Mozambique for second time

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy made its second landfall in Mozambique Saturday night, pounding the southern African nation with heavy rains and disrupting transport and telecommunications services. French weather agency Météo-France warned of “destructive and devastating” winds and “dangerous seas and heavy rains” that could lead to landslides.

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