The Palm Springs Black History Month Committee, Palm Springs Art Museum and the city will host a series of free and educational events starting next week for Black History Month. A Black History Month Kick-Off event, celebrating the Harlem Renaissance and African American culture and arts, will get underway at 5:30 p.m. next Thursday, according
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The survivors and decedents of Section 14 plan to gather in numbers at the Palm Springs City Council closed session on January 25th. The land being discussed is a one-square-mile tract in downtown Palm Springs, California, that people lived on between 1930 and 1965. Section 14 was part of the reservation belonging to the Agua
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Get ready to take in the sounds, mixed mediums and colorful craftsmanship at this year’s Southwest Arts Festival. The event is known as one of the region’s most popular art festivals, attracting more than 10,000 attendees year after year. It begins Thursday, January 25 and runs until Sunday, January 28 at the Empire Polo Club
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A wanted felon was hospitalized with major injuries, and a police investigation was underway early Thursday morning following an overnight officer-involved shooting in Beaumont. It started as a police pursuit in Hemet shortly after 7:00 p.m. Wednesday as officers with the City of Hemet and California Highway Patrol officers tried to stop a wanted felon as
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A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck near San Bernardino, the US Geological Survey confirmed. The earthquake was originally recorded as a 4.5-magnitude earthquake, however, it was downgraded to a M4.2 a few minutes later We’ve received calls from residents who felt shaking in the Banning-Beaumont area and the Coachella Valley. The San Bernardino County Fire Department
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The Palm Springs Police Department demonstrated how local law enforcement uses special weapons and tactics (SWAT) equipment and vehicles to visiting Costa Rican law enforcement officials. It’s important equipment local law enforcement use to de-escalate dangerous situations. “Things like barricaded suspects, potential hostage rescue situations, those things kind of develop out of nowhere. So we
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Residents at Mountain View Cottages in Indio face frustrations from tropical storm Hilary’s aftermath and home issues, including leaks, black mold, and air quality problems. The City of Indio is aware of these issues and has been working with the property manager to try to resolve the issues. Residents, however, feel as though the management
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Jurors deadlocked today in the sanity trial of a 37-year-old man who gunned down his octogenarian grandparents in Palm Desert, in what his attorney contends were acts of a mentally disturbed person, but the prosecution maintains were outright murders. Deliberations began Jan. 11 after a few days of testimony in the mental competency trial of
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EL MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Deputies found the bodies of six people at a remote dirt crossroads in the Mojave Desert, a scene described as so grisly that Southern California TV stations blurred some of the images captured by their helicopters overhead. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies responding to a request for a wellness check
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The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved an allocation of $7.5 million in funding to complete the Palm Springs Navigation Center campus. County officials said the facility will be integral to the region’s efforts to address homelessness. It is set to provide 80 interim housing units with full wrap-around services. The three‑building campus located at
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Update 1:40 p.m. The Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station confirmed that Toye Alicia Moore was found safe. Original Report 11:43 a.m. The Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station was alerted of a missing woman from Yucca Valley. Toye Alicia Moore was last seen on Thursday, January 18, 2024 leaving her residence in the 6000c block of Hermosa Ave
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“The phones are ringing off the hook,” said Rob Winkle, the Chief Financial Officer at Roof Asset Management. Winkle says in the last 24-hours his company has received over 200 phone calls. Although its nothing in comparison to the inquiries he got after Tropical Storm Hilary. During that week, Roof Asset Management answered nearly 1,000
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A new LGBTQ retirement living facility is open in the desert. Living Out Palm Springs hosted its grand opening on Tuesday. This marks Southern California’s first and only luxury active adult community specifically designed for the LGBTQ community. Loren Ostrow, one of the developers of Living Out, states, “Knowing that too many LGBTQ seniors live
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Trump will win New Hampshire Republican primary, CNN projects Originally Published: 23 JAN 24 20:18 ET Updated: 23 JAN 24 20:23 ET By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump will win New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary, CNN projects, defeating former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and moving him closer to a rematch with President Joe Biden this fall.
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Attempted murder charges were dropped against a man accused in an Indio shooting two years ago. He pleaded not guilty Tuesday to new allegations of committing a felony in association with a gang. Tasaun Thomas, 25, of Indio, and 22-year-old Kevin Rene Duarte were each charged with one felony count of attempted murder and two
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A 34-year-old man who slipped into an inebriated woman’s room at the Palm Springs hotel where he worked and sexually assaulted her as she lay unconscious was sentenced today to seven years to life in state prison. A Banning jury in November deliberated less than a day before finding Alejandro “Alex” Adan of Desert Hot
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Jury deliberations resumed today in the sanity trial of a 37-year-old man who gunned down his octogenarian grandparents in Palm Desert, in what his attorney contends were acts of a mentally disturbed person, but the prosecution maintains were outright murders. Deliberations began Jan. 11 after a few days of testimony in the mental competency trial
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A high-speed rail line connecting Southern California with Las Vegas got a major boost today with the approval of $2.5 billion in bonds. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the funding, via private activity bond authority allocated for the Brightline West High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail project. The 218-mile rail line will primarily run along the
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FARM, Tac/Quila, Front Porch and Clandestino are now Certified Autism Centers (CAC). The Palm Springs restaurants were awarded this designation after the owners, Liz and Mark Ostoich, and the majority of their employees received autism-awareness training from the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES.) “We had over 80 percent of the front
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By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — After stunning the world of golf by becoming the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since 1991, 20-year-old Nick Dunlap has decided to take some well-deserved rest. The American sophomore defied the odds by winning The American Express tournament on Sunday, his achievement making headlines across the
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