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More than 700 firefighters have been sent to surround a heavy brush on the flanks on Silverado Canyon today in triple digit heat, as the fire that broke out Friday has blackened about 1,600 acres and was about 10 percent contained. Cleveland National Forest fire bosses assigned a chopper to make nighttime drops in the

A faulty transformer caused an outage all day Saturday that affected seven homes in Palm Springs. The blackout was reported at 11:30 a.m. and affected the homes on Via Fortuna. A restoration time was estimated at 1 a.m. Sunday, Southern California Edison spokesman David Song said.

Yary Alfaro of Cathedral City is fighting for her life. Police said the 14-year-old girl was walking home when she was hit by a car at the corner of Date Palm Drive and Victoria Road in Cathedral City on Aug. 31. Ana Alfaro, Yary’s sister, said the teenager texted her for a ride just minutes

Hundreds of customers were without power in Coachella for about two hours Friday night. The outage affected at least 917 customers. It occurred around 8:30 p.m. and the Imperial Irrigation District said all power was restored around 10:45 p.m. Officials never listed the cause of the outage. IID said if you’re still having issues with

Large and bulky items damaged in Monday’s flooding in La Quinta will be picked-up Saturday by Burrtec. The city, in cooperation with Burrtec, set-up the free curbside service. Items need to be at the curb by 6:00 a.m.. The pick-ups will continue until 2:00 p.m.. People outside the heavily flood damaged areas can call Burrtec

El desierto est cada vez ms cerca de ver la venta legal de marijuana medicinal. Esto se debe a una nueva ordenanza que entro en vigor este jueves que permitira la posible apertura de un dispensario en Cathedral City. Si es aprobada, la ciudad se unira a Palm Springs y posiblemente Desert Hot Springs como

The Coachella Valley Unified School District is vowing to never forget a child on a school bus again. This after a special needs 6th grader was found on a bus Monday morning alone crying. We first broke the story Wednesday night and Friday night we’re hearing a first hand account of what happened. The driver

Coachella Valley High School has a new mascot, ending months of criticism from the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee over the old one, which was called “stereotypical.” District officials along with a representative from the Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee signed off Friday on the changes to the school’s mascot, logo, and name. “It feels really great to know

El atraco sucedio ayer al filo de las 8:00a.m. sobre Velie Way en Palm Desert. Segn una cmara de vigilancia, el malandrin utiliz una mesa que estaba afuera del restaurante para romber el cristal del establecimiento. Posteriormente, utiliz una herramienta desconocida para forzar su entrada a la caja registradora, llevndose una cantidad de dinero no

La ceremonia de anniversario de los ataques terroristas del 11 de Septiembre del ao 2001, tendra lugar en el Centro Civico de la cuidad de La Quinta este jueves por la noche. Se recomienda a losasistentes de la vigilia a traer consigo velas blancas y sillas portables. La velada ser completamente gratuita y abierta a

A new game show produced by Courtney Cox and David Arquette is looking for contestants in Palm Springs. The game show is called ‘Celebrity Name Game’ and it will be hosted by Craig Ferguson. The casting team is looking for energetic teams of two who are ready to team up with a celebrity and show

A new Field Poll finds 56 percent of Californians support the death penalty, but support has fallen by 12 percentage points in just three years. Field’s survey of registered voters found 56 percent favor keeping the death penalty, 34 percent support abolishing it and 10 percent have no opinion. Friday’s report shows support has fallen

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is announcing its first ever golf tournament to benefit SafeHouse of the Desert — a nonprofit organization in Thousand Palms that offers help to youth and families dealing with crisis. The tournament takes place at Classic Club in Palm Desert on Saturday, September 20. It costs $450 per foursome and

A new state report says African-American elementary students were chronically truant nearly four times the rate of all students during the last school year. The report released Friday by the California attorney general’s office marks the first time the data has been broken down by race and income levels. Officials say such data is needed

In the Coachella Valley, people chose to honor and remember by candle light. Thursday night about a hundred people gathered at the La Quinta 9/11 Memorial, made up of steel from the World Trade Center. La Quinta is the only city in the Coachella Valley to have steel beam from the World Trade Center as

We are learning more information about a special needs child was left on a school bus Monday. We were the first to bring you the story Wednesday night. Thursday we have learned the incident happened Monday morning not Monday afternoon as we reported. Coachella Valley Unified School District Superintendent Darryl Adams also told us Thursday

People in the small unincorporated community of Desert Edge, just west of Desert Hot Springs feel safer. They have their first ever citizens on patrol keeping watch over their neighborhoods. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is no hoping to get more volunteers. “Back in February I began the process of recruiting interested people and through

The intersection of Bob Hope Drive and Varner Road is back open in Thousand Palms. It’s been closed since Monday’s flooding. Crews today cleared tons of mud off of Varner Road near the McDonald’s and Flying J. They were also digging out the intersection at Bob Hope Drive. Now, traffic headed to Thousand Palms can

The cleanup continues after Monday’s storm. City officials in La Quinta are calling it a “700-year storm” and say the City Council will consider declaring a local emergency next week. “Typically the city of La Quinta receives 3.5 inches a year in rain. We had that much in an hour,” said Frank Spevacek, the city

The Coachella Valley Brewing Co. is playing catch-up to make up for lost time, customers and money caused by the mud from Monday’s storm. “Pretty much we’ve had three customers in the past two days, so it’s not real good for business when people can’t get to your location,” said Christopher Anderson, CEO of CV