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.”

Summer officially ends after Sunday, and the first week of autumn will feature “roller coaster” weather patterns throughout the Inland Empire, as well as the rest of Southern California, according to the National Weather Service.

Coachella Valley vector control officials will be working on multiple fronts this weekend to eradicate growing mosquito infestations in the region that pose a potential risk to public health.

An odor advisory first issued more than a week ago due to elevated levels of hydrogen sulfide wafting up from the Salton Sea, which is creating a smell similar to rotten eggs in the Coachella Valley, has been extended again.

An odor advisory has been issued for the Coachella Valley area of Southern California because of naturally occurring processes in the Salton Sea that produce a gas with a rotten egg smell.

Further mosquito pesticide treatments via helicopter were scheduled to get underway Wednesday in the Coachella Valley as mosquito-borne viruses continue to be detected at “unprecedented” levels in the region, officials said. Additional truck-mounted mosquito control applications are planned for La Quinta and Mecca this week as a result of more mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile Virus, the Coachella Valley...

A ridge of high pressure will remain in the Los Angeles area Monday bringing above-normal temperatures to most areas, especially the valleys.

It’s going to be hot out. Shanna Mendiola has the First Alert Forecast for Tuesday, June 11, 2019.