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A tiny bug is causing big problems for citrus growers all over the Southland. The Asian citrus psyllid is a huge threat to California’s $1.8 billion citrus industry because there’s no cure for the disease it spreads. Now, the California Department of Food and Agriculture says there’s an infestation in Desert Hot Springs. Anita Butcher

A Riverside father of four is $120 million richer today. Ronald Willis had the winning ticket from Tuesday’s Mega Millions Jackpot and claimed his prize today at the California Lottery’s Inland Empire District Office. “I’m not a yeller or jump-around type of guy,” Willis said. “When I realized I won, I just stayed calm, sat

Just after 3:30 p.m. Friday, a fire erupted in some trees and brush between Perez Road and The Cathedral Canyon Country Club in Cathedral City. Firefighters from Cathedral City and Palm Springs batted the blaze for over an hour. Cathedral City Fire officials told us, that two separate fires were ignited along a bike path

Firefighters made quick work of a fast moving fire at a home on Clancy Lane in Rancho Mirage late Friday afternoon. Cal Fire got the call just before 2pm that a home was on fire on Clancy Lane near Bob Hope Drive. When on scene, they found an abandoned 2-3,000 square foot residence and several

Homeless people in Indio received much needed supplies Friday, thanks to the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission’s “Love Van”. The outreach wrapped up the Mission’s “90 days of Summer Relief Campaign.” Workers handed out water, shirts, hats, shoes and sunscreen out on the streets. As Greg Fisher told us, it’s an effort to encourage homeless people

Hoy a las 7:00 p.m. durante la ceremonia de apertura de la temporada escolar de ftbol americano, Cathedral city ser distinguido con las llaves de la escuela. Bradley, quien le arrebato a Manny Pacquiao el campionato en Junio pasado en Las Vegas, Nv, es un orgullo para el Valle de Coachella, para Cathedral City y

Cathedral City High School will honor boxing champion Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley at his alma mater’s football game tonight.Bradley, who beat Manny Pacquiao in a split decision to claim the World Boxing Organization welterweight title in Las Vegas in June, will be given the key to the school at halftime, Vice Principal Todd Diliberto said.

The pilot of a single-engine plane was injured and a horse corral was damaged today when the aircraft went down about four miles west of Perris. The crash happened about 1 p.m. in the 24000 block of Rose Quartz Drive, a rural area between Perris and Lake Mathews, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.

An international team of weather experts has named California’s Death Valley the hottest spot on the planet. The World Meteorological Organization says the title comes after they investigated a long-held record reported in El Azizia, Libya, and found that an inexperienced weather observer had recorded the temperature incorrectly. El Azizia’s record was logged as 136.4

Demolition work will begin today on a heavily used bridge where traffic exits and joins the Riverside 91 Freeway in Riverside, marking the start of a months-long reconstruction that’s expected to cause travel delays at the juncture. According to Caltrans, the 14th Street overcrossing will be torn down over the next three days. The site

That foul smell, which hovered over Riverside County and lingered into the Los Angeles basin, did in fact originate from the Salton Sea. Riverside County Supervisor Marion Ashley, chairman of the Salton Sea Authority, says the stench isn’t just a local problem, but a state issue. “This time all of Southern California got to experience

The former head of the Coachella Valley Unified School District’s transportation department testified today that a body shop owner whoclaims he and the transportation director received district money for repairsthat weren’t done was lying. Raul Portillo Lopez, 56, is accused of misappropriating more than$200,000 in funds between 2003 and 2007. He faces 27 felony counts,

Experts for the agency that operates the state’s power grid say they’re taking steps to prepare for another summer without power generation from the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant. The California Independent System Operator spokesman Steven Greenlee says the agency’s board of governors was briefed Thursday on recent analysis of the power grid needs

Steven Klein, a Hemet resident, says he consulted on the anti-Muslim film that incited violence in the Middle East. Right now, he is the only one speaking out about the controversial film and said he has received death threats. In fact, the threats prompted him to cancel his interview. Klein said after he agreed to

“We’re quite different from one another, but that doesn’t stop us from loving each other, from being brothers,” Bryce Virgin said of his older brother, Grant, who was a victim of a hit and run crash. Bryce and Grant Virgin, two different brothers, share something — their looks — which came into play Monday night.