Coachella Valley

With potentially deadly mosquito-borne viruses continuing to be detected in the Coachella Valley, vector control officials are planning to carry out further pesticide spray applications beginning tomorrow. Targeted mosquito eradication efforts are scheduled Thursday through Saturday from 2 a.m to 6 a.m. in Palm Desert and Indian Wells, near where mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis were previously...

Three men were arrested and remained jailed Sunday in connection with the disappearance of a couple who went missing in the Coachella Valley more than three years ago. Audrey Moran and Jonathon Reynoso disappeared on May 12, 2017 and the case later became a homicide investigation, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Moran left her Coachella home to pick…

Some Coachella Valley residents may smell the stench of rotting eggs in the air Sunday due to elevated levels of hydrogen sulfide wafting from the Salton Sea. The South Coast Air Quality Management District issued an odor advisory that continues through Sunday night after detecting hydrogen sulfide concentrations at 67 parts per billion Saturday morning immediately downwind from the Salton…

The Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District Friday announced mosquitoes in La Quinta had tested positive for a viral disease that can be transmitted to humans and initially cause flu-like symptoms, and in rare cases, death. There are no reported human cases of St. Louis Encephalitis in California, according to the district, but officials still warned people to guard…

Guitar string manufacturer Ernie Ball has announced its Coachella Valley factory would begin making face masks that will be given away for free to residents and organizations amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company recently reconfigured a portion of its Coachella factory to produce 400 two-ply cotton masks per day, and announced free masks would soon be available for all Coachella…

The coronavirus pandemic has brought uncertain times for small businesses across the Coachella Valley, but a few local breweries are testing out new tactics to meet the challenge. Some valley breweries have added delivery options to their menus in order to supply a homebound — and thirsty — local population of beer drinkers. “What I’m seeing is there has been…

Coachella Valley’s drive-up COVID-19 testing site will be moved from Indian Wells to the Riverside County Fairgrounds in Indio starting Tuesday. The current site at the Southwest Church has been in operation since March 17. Health care workers there handled more than 420 tests through Friday, and expected to conduct roughly 160 more tests on Saturday based on the scheduled…

A limited number of Coachella Valley visitors and residents with COVID-19 symptoms can make an appointment to get tested at a drive-up testing center in Indian Wells Thursday and Friday without first receiving a doctor’s approval, county public health officials announced. Testing is currently scheduled for Thursday and Friday during the hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Public health officials...

Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser confirmed two new COVID-19 cases in the Coachella Valley today, bringing the county total to 14. The announcement means there are now 12 residents — all in the Coachella Valley — receiving treatment for COVID-19. Most are self-quarantine at home. Additionally, two residents aboard a cruise ship that docked in San Francisco…

Three additional Riverside County residents are infected with novel coronavirus, likely the result of local exposure to the pathogen and not because of overseas travel, the county’s public health officer said Monday. Dr. Cameron Kaiser said the three new COVID-19 infections surfaced after the county’s first was confirmed over the weekend. Two patients are self-quarantined in their homes while...

A school bus driver for the Coachella Valley Unified School District pleaded not guilty Tuesday to molesting three girls while on the job a decade ago. Jose Luis Moncada, 64, of Desert Hot Springs, is charged with eight counts of committing lewd acts with a child under 14 years old stemming from allegations that in 2010, he “inappropriately touched several…

A small video camera found inside a bathroom at a Stater Bros grocery store in Cathedral City led to the arrest of one-time registered sex offender suspected of placing similar cameras in bathrooms across the Coachella Valley, authorities said. Cathedral City Police officers responded to the Stater Bros at 69244 Ramon Road on Monday after store staff located a video…

Democratic presidential hopeful and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders brought his campaign to the Coachella Valley today, beginning a series of California speaking engagements planned in the coming days. Sanders’ spoke before a boisterous rally at the Rancho Mirage Amphitheater, after Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett performed. He began by assailing recent decisions by state officials in Wisconsin and Georgia to…

Democratic presidential hopeful and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is making a campaign stop Monday in the Coachella Valley, one of at least three California speaking engagements planned in the coming days.

A drug-cocktailing driver who plowed into a woman’s car at 100 mph in Cathedral City, killing her and causing major head trauma to her teenage son, was sentenced today to 22-years-to-life in state prison.

Jerry Seinfeld will return to the Coachella Valley next year to perform three dates at The Show at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa, with tickets for the first show going on sale to the general public Saturday at 8 a.m.

Jury selection entered its third day Thursday for the murder trial of a man who allegedly set his mother on fire during a dispute outside her Coachella Valley workplace.

Fifteen students from Desert Mirage High School were hospitalized Thursday and four Thermal-area schools were evacuated due to smoke-related issues stemming from a nearby debris fire that has been burning since Monday.

Representatives from colleges, technical schools, military institutions and other organizations will be engaging Coachella Valley high school students and their families in Rancho Mirage Thursday at the fourth annual “Next? Think Big! College & Career Fair.”