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Citizens for a Sustainable Palm Springs plan to turn in a petition calling for a special election on plans for a new hotel as part of the downtown revitalization project at the Desert Fashion Plaza. The group’s Treasurer, Frank Tyson, says they have collected more than 3,000 signatures and will turn them in Tuesday morning.

The Palm Springs High School marching band performed at the presidential inaugural parade in Washington, D.C., Monday following the swearing-in of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Palm Springs Unified School District spokeswoman Joan Boiko said applications were reviewed by the Presidential Inaugural committee, which includes military band members. The committee assesses presentation

The second inauguration of the nation’s first black president also falls on the same day we honor one of the greatest black leaders in history. The nation celebrates and remembers Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for equality and passion for service. Twenty-eight volunteers cut branches, raked leaves and did yard work at different houses

Burglars in Murrieta are switching off the lights to homes in what police warned today was a new technique to determine whether residences are occupied. According to Sgt. Don Weller, there have been several recent break-ins during which circuit breakers were tripped by suspects targeting homes they wanted to confirm were empty. “Once the home

Today is Martin Luther King Junior Day, many businesses will be recognizing the holiday with closures. County, State and Federal buildings will not be open. This includes The Department of Motor Vehicles three locations in the Coachella Valley and around the state. Most libraries will also be closed. Most banks will not be open for

Mary Bono Mack’s winter ski season appeared to come to a premature end Sunday after she said she broke her right wrist in a snowboarding mishap on the slopes in Colorado. The former 36th Congressional District Republican representative tweeted Sunday evening, “Boarding experiment over. Broken right wrist. Damn. There goes ski season. Good time to

Authorities are continuing to look for the suspect who shot a woman, believed to be homeless, in Indio. Police were called to the intersection of Van Buren and Dr. Carreon Boulevard at around 7:30 p.m. Sunday. That’s where they found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound to her lower body. She was transported to

Working the green like the pros, junior golfers hit the links for some top-notch tee time during the final round of the Humana Challenge at PGA West in La Quinta on Sunday. The playtime was all thanks to the First Tee of the Coachella Valley, which teamed up with Lumpy’s golf shops to put on

Brian Gay won the Humana Challenge on Sunday for his fourth PGA Tour title, beating Charles Howell III with a 5 1/2-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff. Gay closed with a 9-under 63 on PGA West’s Arnold Palmer Private Course to match Howell and Swedish rookie David Lingmerth at 25-under 263.

Former New Hampshire Governor and Coachella Valley resident John Sununu said Republicans need to be more proactive in winning voters over to conservative principles at a Saturday gathering at the Empire Polo Grounds, and the future of America depends on it. Sununu said Republicans, “have to talk, talk talk” and be more active, not just

What’s better than a Saturday morning outdoor Tae Bo session? A Saturday morning outdoor Tae Bo session with Billy Blanks. “It’s not a hard workout. It’s a workout if you listen to the instructions, it’s something you basically do everyday,” Tae Bo creator Billy Blanks said. Whether people agree it’s not a hard workout or

Palm Springs police officers arrested a Palm Springs High School teacher Thursday afternoon on suspicion of sending inappropriate text messages to a 15-year-old male student. Ronald Steven Bishop, 40, was taken into custody about 3 p.m. in the high school’s campus parking lot, “without incident,” according to Palm Springs police Sergeant Mike Kovaleff. “The arrest

State officials say California’s jobless rate remained at 9.8 percent in December, the same rate as in November. This compares to the seven point six for the nation. The Employment Development Department said Friday that 1.8 million Californians were unemployed in December, slightly below the previous month but down by 255,000 since December of 2011.

Cuatro personas se quedaron sin hogar despus de que se incendiara el duplex en el que vivan en la cuadra 44-700 de King Street en Indio. Segn el informe, el Departamento de Bomberos recibi la llamada que reportaba el siniestro a las 4:15 a.m., de inmediato fueron al lugar y al llegar se encontraron con

Four people are without homes Friday after an early morning fire destroys the duplex they were living in. According to Cal Fire, they say they got a call around 4:15 a.m. Friday morning of smoke coming from a home on the 44-700 block of King Street in Indio. When they arrived on scene they reported

Rancho Mirage City Council has decided to delay a vote on whether to tear down the burned out remains of Gigi’s Island restaurant cafe on Highway 111. The decision came Thursday after holding a public hearing. The building has stood now in it’s current charred state since a fire ravaged it a year ago. The

PGA Tour rookie James Hahn and second-year players Roberto Castro and Jason Kokrak share a one-shot lead over four golfers entering today’s second round of the $5.6 million Humana Challenge. Hahn, Castro and Kokrak all fired bogey-free rounds of nine-under-par 63s Thursday. Aaron Baddeley, Greg Chalmers, Russell Henley and Doug LaBelle II are all one

Actor Robert Wagner has repeatedly refused to be interviewed by detectives probing the 1981 drowning of his wife, Natalie Wood, a sheriff’s lieutenant said in remarks published today. Since reopening the investigation more than 13 months ago, detectives have gathered new evidence and interviewed more than 100 witnesses, but not the man they’re most anxious

A Riverside police vice sting targeting individuals who solicit prostitutes resulted in the arrest of eight people. The operation was one of a number that the police department has conducted in recent months to discourage solicitation along the University Avenue corridor. In the most recent sting, which ran all day on January 10, female officers