Cathedral City News

We're excited about the report that visits to Riverside County libraries increased 6.5 percent over the previous year.

You have a chance to see a local family compete in ABC's show, "The Great Christmas Light Fight," on Monday at 9 p.m. You'll see the same Christmas light show you know and love -- just 50,000 lights brighter; a chance at winning a reality show sure 'upped the ante', for creator Mike Simmons.

Gigi Mowray walked into the Rancho Mirage Public Library on Tuesday morning, bought an apple juice from the cafe in the front foyer and settled into a quiet room for a two-hour study session.

An 81-year-old motorist was killed when his sedan went off a roadway near a Cathedral City intersection and slammed into a palm tree, the Riverside County Coroner's Office reported today.

A man was shot and killed Friday in Cathedral City near Agua Caliente Park and the intersection of San Luis Rey and San Gabriel.

A man was killed Friday night after hitting a palm tree with an SUV on Highway 111 near West Buddy Rogers Drive, according to Cathedral City Police.

Desert Hills Presbyterian Church's children's choir will present a special Christmas song during the December 15 service.

Somewhere an alarm blares and firefighters quickly put on their gear and jump onto a fire engine to rush to the scene of a blaze.

Thousands of devout Catholics carrying signs and wearing rosaries and traditional Mexican clothing embarked on a 30-mile pilgrimage Thursday dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe -- an annual vivid, valley-wide procession of devotion.

Both performances are at 7 p.m. at the theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 N. Museum Drive.

In response to Gov. Jerry Brown's AB109 prison realignment law, a special multiagency task force based out of Palm Springs is targeting about 100 high-risk probationers and parolees in the Coachella Valley on Wednesday.

In Cathedral City's search for a new city manager, it was noted by the interim city manager, Rod Wood, that there were unqualified applicants that he referred to as "bowling alley managers" applying for the position.

As surely as darkness falls, as mountains have avalanches, as the North Star is fixed in the empyrean, the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray will have a convertible top.

Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff and area representatives will honor fallen law enforcement officers during a ``Blue Light'' ceremony today in Palm Desert, the first of two scheduled in the county this month.

ABC is getting into the Christmas spirit with the new reality show "The Great Christmas Light Fight."

Food Network's reality series "Restaurant Impossible" comes to the desert next week to transform Cathedral City's Tootie's Texas Bar-B-Que.

Personnel with the California Highway Patrol based in Indio are seeking donations for their CHiPs for Kids toy drive.

It may not be the east coast or the Midwest, but Coachella Valley residents are definitely bundling up in order to keep warm amid low, winter-like temperatures.

"Skeeter was my first real dog," writes 12-year-old Emalee Paige of Cathedral City.

The City Council will meet at 3 p.m. Wednesday in closed session to sort through just more than 70 resumes received for the open city manager position, with the goal of picking five to interview later this month.