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With temperatures back in the double digits, the desert’s popular hiking spot, the Bump and Grind Trail, is seeing its fair share of foot traffic. “I hike here about three to four times a week,” said valley resident Rick Feliciano. “I come every week,” said Laura Vieyra, another valley resident. But they will only be

By the end of 2013, every student in the Coachella Valley Unified School District will have an iPad. Five thousand of them have already been distributed, and 15 thousand more are scheduled go out before Christmas. The Los Angeles Unified School District has had problems implementing a similar program, with devices being damaged and students

Actions may speak louder than words, but as Emi Grace knows, words still hurt. “I’ve had words said to me that make me feel weak and not good enough,” Grace said. She’s a sophomore at Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage. “It’s hard being in high school. I see a lot of kids thinking they’re

Nearly 400,000 Americans depend on dialysis to survive. For the past six years, Lynda Samen of La Quinta Quinta has been one of them. She undergoes treatments four times a week in Palm Desert. She said a common and messy issue for many patients is bleeding after they leave the clinic. “They usually get out

La polica contina tras la pista de un sujeto que el viernes poco antes de las 9:00 p.m. encerr a una mujer en la cajuela del coche de ella. Segn el informe la vctima recogi al hombre en el rea de Indian Trail y Adobe Road en Twentynine Palms, poco despus el sujeto sac una

A 19-year-old Palm Desert man is facing criminal charges for allegedly raping an intoxicated woman after she left a party, according to court documents. Alexis Haro was charged Friday with one count each of rape of an unconscious victim, assault with intent to rape and sodomy of an intoxicated victim. He was initially arrested several

Much cooler temperatures, light rain and gusty winds are in store for Riverside County starting Wednesday, meteorologists said today. “A cold low pressure system will develop over the Pacific Northwest (today), then move quickly southward through Central California on Wednesday and through Southern California late Wednesday through early Thursday,” according to the National Weather Service.

Incensed over vandals damaging a statue of former President Ronald Reagan, Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone today will ask his colleagues to support posting a $10,000 county-backed reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of the culprits. “It’s despicable that someone would intentionally damage a public work of art that honors President Reagan,”

Riverside County supervisors are expected today to approve an ordinance mandating that, with only a few exceptions, pit bulls older than 4 months in unincorporated communities be sterilized for the sake of public safety. “We tend to see that many owners of pit bulls are not responsible,” said Supervisor John Tavaglione, who joined his colleagues

Timothy Russell, the man on death row for ambushing and killing two Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies in 1997, is dead tonight after police say he took his own life in his San Quentin prison cell. Russell had been on death row at San Quentin since January 14, 1999 following his conviction and sentencing for the

A man who helped shape the Coachella Valley when it comes to aviation, real estate, health care, and golf has passed away. Ernie Dunlevie died Monday morning, according to a statement from his family. Dunlevie was the last surviving co-founder of the Palm Springs Classic which eventually became the Bob Hope Desert Classic and is

During the month of October, pink products line store shelves, garnering a lot of attention. “Yes it does because I have two sisters that had breast cancer and two nieces with breast cancer,” Sandy MacDonald said. Have you ever wondered how much of your money actually goes toward the fight against cancer? “Usually things are

Heavy floodwater damaged and washed out multiple of desert hiking trails in August, including parts of the popular Bump and Grind and Hopalong Cassidy trails in Palm Desert. “It’s more than a mess. It’s uneven in a lot of the areas and it makes it hard to run on,” said hiker Ethan Simley, of Indio.

Miles de inmigrantes salieron a las calles del pas el sbado para exigir al Congreso que acte y apruebe una reforma migratoria con una va a la naturalizacin de al menos 11 millones de personas que viven en el pas autorizacin legal. Activistas destacaron los eventos planeados en alrededor de 140 ciudades y pueblos de

Police were trying Monday to find a suspect who reportedly locked a woman in the trunk of her own car in Twentynine Palms. The crime was reported Friday night shortly before 9:00 p.m. in the area of Mesquite Springs Road and Valle Vista Road. The woman who was reportedly victimized said she’d picked up a

Ayer a las 5:30 p.m. estall un incendio en una unidad del estacionamiento de casas mviles “Las Palmas” que se ubica sobre la Avenida 48 y Jefferson Street en Indio. En media hora las llamas fueron contenidas por los bomberos. El origen del siniestro es investigado por las autoridades, por fortuna no se reportaron heridos.

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the Inland Empire fell Monday for the 19th consecutive day, dropping eight-tenths of a cent to $3.836. The average price in Riverside and San Bernardino counties is 7.3 cents less than one week ago, 1.9 cents lower than one month ago and 83.4 cents

A bill calling for the annual closing of the popular Bump and Grind Trail in Palm Desert for three months was signed into law over the weekend by Gov. Jerry Brown. The legislation the governor signed Saturday would also earmark at least $100,000 to monitor the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep by 2018. State Assemblyman Brian

Coachella Valley residents are invited to join a workshop in Palm Desert today that will explain the impact on their pocketbooks if a state proposal to raise drinking water standards to reduce levels of chromium-6 takes effect. The Coachella Valley Water District and the Riverside County Board of Supervisors are both opposed to a California

The cause of a mobile home fire in Indio is under investigation this morning. Emergency crews were called to the Las Palmas De La Quinta mobile home park on Avenue 48 just after 5 p.m. Sunday. When firefighters arrived, they found smoke pouring from a double-wide mobile home. Crews worked quickly and contained the blaze