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California Highway Patrol (CHP) is gearing up for the high traffic as millions of motorists take to the roads during the Thanksgiving holiday. Starting at 6:01 p.m. on Wednesday, November 27, and running through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, December 1, CHP will activate the annual Thanksgiving Maximum Enforcement Period. During this holiday time period, CHP

Every year, families in Rancho La Quinta save a seat for local Marines at their Thanksgiving dinner table. They invite Marines stationed nearby to spend the holiday with them, especially if they can’t fly home or don’t have family to spend it with. Every Thanksgiving day, volunteers book a bus that picks up dozens of

Update 11/27/24 CHP has deactivate its Silver Alert, confirming the man was located. Original Report 11/26/24 A Silver Alert has been issued for a missing 90-year-old man last seen in Thousand Palms. Ramon Duran was last seen at around 11:00 a.m. in Thousand Palms on Monday, according to the California Highway Patrol. SILVER ALERT –

Parking at the Palm Springs International Airport remains limited after it was full Tuesday afternoon. As of 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, lots A B, and C are now LIMITED while D is OPEN. That wasn’t the case earlier today as all the lots were full. Officials were directing vehicles to the overflow lot with shuttle service.

After eight hours of mediation, Oswit Land Trust founder Jane Garrison reports an ‘agreement in principle’ has been reached between the Trust and and Mesquite Country Club Homeowners Association.  The parties to the lawsuit had spent two years in litigation – with Oswit Land Trust envisioning a 180-acre wildlife sanctuary called Prescott Preserve, and Mesquite

From the ports through the Inland Empire, this industry looks like it is just beginning to solidify its foothold in the Coachella Valley.  California’s trade, transportation, and utilities sector are the second-largest industry in the state. It flourished at the forefront of the pandemic as lifestyles and consumer buying habits went online. From its initial

Update 11/26: A GoFundMe has been started to help with the recovery. You can find it here. Around 2:25 Saturday morning, firefighters were dispatched to a reported mobile home fire in the 17900 block of Corkill Road in Desert Edge. The first on-scene unit reported a mobile home well involved in fire with immediate exposure

The city of Indio is celebrating the grand opening of the Al Vasquez Learning Center. The new space gives children and adults better access to educational and professional resources. The Center is a private, Christian institution, and does not receive any government funding. Local leaders gathered for a ribbon cutting ceremony this morning at the

A hiccup in the Downtown Plaza Theatre restoration project, the Palm Springs City Council voted 4-0 last week to approve a resolution of necessity of Kalura Trattoria’s patio, which is the first step in acquiring the property through eminent domain.  The restaurant is located next to the theater. The city says it needs to widen an existing 10-foot easement

Update: A person is dead after a crash south of Snow Creek Monday night. Cal Fire said once on scene, firefighters found one vehicle and small vegetation fire. Firefighters contained the fire at 11:45 p.m. and said a single person in the vehicle died at the scene. The crash was turned over to law enforcement