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It’s the lush green golf course that gives the Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage its serene view and recreation. “We wouldn’t last very long if it wasn’t for our golf course,” said general manager Chris Bonvie. You might not notice, but changes are already underway to help create some drought relief. The country club

Tres personas quedaron sin hogar tras un incendio que consumi todo a su paso en Cathedral City anoche. Este orden de acciones sucedio en la Avenida los Nios un poco despus de la una de la madrugada del viernes. El Departamento de Bomberos de Cathedral City solicit ayuda del Departamento de Palm Springs para sofocar

Tamarisk trees are all over the Coachella Valley and homeless people are using them to build encampments, which could cause a fire hazard. Homeless people will move in and start fires to stay warm or to cook food. Those fires can get out of control. “A fire within a tamarisk tree is difficult and challenging

The Desert Daze music festival returns to the Coachella Valley this May for its fourth consecutive year. Smaller than neighboring festivals Coachella and Stagecoach, Desert Daze brings together an eclectic group of artists and vendors to a beautiful outdoor setting that will excite any music fan. This year’s lineup boasts headliners such as Minus the

An arson investigation is underway in Yucca Valley after a family member was found burning furniture inside the living room of a home on the 7500 block of Cherokee Trail early Friday morning. And making the situation even more strange for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, callers reported a woman in the street waving

Una mujer de Riverside quin atropell a su padre quin intentaba evitar que ella manejara en estado de ebriedad, enfrenta cargos de asesinato de segundo grado. Soukvilay Barton se declar inocente de los hechos ayer jueves en corte, se le fij una fianza de $1 milln de dlares y regresar a corte en Mayo 6.

Agentes con la Patrulla de Caminos de California reportaron que un hombre y un bebe fallecieron tras ser arrollados por mltiple vehculos este pasado jueves por la noche mientras cruzaban la Interestatal 10 en Beaumont. De acuerdo con el reporte policial, la colisin sucedi justo despus de las 10:30 p.m. el jueves. El reporte seal

Joshua Tree National Park is one of the many sites affected by the state-wide drought. Water levels have drastically decreased and so have the efforts of reseeding young Joshua trees to thrive for future generations. But those crooked branches facing skyward might as well be a personification of arms on a body praying for water.

The California Highway Patrol says a man and a baby are dead after they were struck by several vehicles on the freeway in Beaumont. Both died at the scene. The collision was reported at 10:32 p.m. Thursday on Interstate 10 west of eastbound Highway 60. It’s still not clear what the man and baby were

A woman who authorities say ran over her father while he was trying to prevent her from driving drunk has been charged with second-degree murder in Southern California. Soukvilay Barton has pleaded not guilty and was held Thursday on $1 million bail. She is due back in court May 6. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Thursday

Indio police are warning small businesses about a potential scam involving their power bills. The scam involves someone calling the business claiming to be an Imperial Irrigation District employee seeking payment for a past due utility bill. The caller says there’s a problem like a check was written incorrectly or the bank rejected an electronic

One person was killed this afternoon when a passenger vehicle and a tractor-trailer truck collided on Interstate 10 in unincorporated Desert Center, about midway between Coachella and Blythe. The crash was reported at 3:09 p.m. on Interstate 10 at mile marker 109, Riverside County Fire Department spokeswoman April Newman said. One victim who was not

Conserving water is something we can do now in this historic drought, but what about the long term? Lawmakers in both Washington, D.C., and Sacramento are working on finding solutions. “Mr. Chairman, one of the worst droughts in modern history is ravaging our nation’s crops, choking our fragile economic recovery, and placing our water supply

For decades the salt cedar, or tamarisk tree, has been planted alongside highways and rail ways across the Southwestern United States. “They are mainly used as a safety measure for our roads, they block winds that blow sand, so they prevent sand from blowing on the highways,” said Steven Magallanes, district landscape architect for Caltrans.

The Palm Springs Unified School District and its teachers are pleased with the outcome of months long contract negotiations. This comes after the district announced a tentative contract agreement with the district’s teachers. Teacher’s said their calls for respect have been heard. A few weeks ago teachers held a “Rally for Respect” demanding a pay

A 17-year-old female was arrested after stabbing a clinician in the neck at the Yucca Valley Crisis Center over the weekend. According to the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station, the stabbing happened on Sunday afternoon at the Walk-in Center, located in the 55400 block of Sante Fe Trail. Deputies said the 17-year-old suspect arrived at the

Dndole seguimiento al informe sobre la severa sequa que atraviesa el estado de California. Agencias de agua del Valle de Coachella le instan al pblico en general que utilicen las piscinas pblicas en lugar de privadas para evitar vaciar y llenar su piscina en casa. La meta es reducir el uso de el liquido. Hasta

A 25-year-old Moreno Valley man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 19-year-old man on April 21. Investigators with the Riverside County sheriff’s Central Homicide Unit said Hector Martinez was arrested on Monday, six days after Rudy Martinez was shot to death in the 24000 block of Postal Avenue in Moreno Valley. The suspect

Two men were arrested in Palm Desert on Wednesday after deputies found hundreds of manufactured credit cards, purchased gift cards and stolen clothing and electronics from several local businesses in a rental car. Deputies were alerted to three men around 2:15 p.m. after someone reported a suspicious person in the 73000 block of El Paseo