Cathedral City News

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.

The Simmons family's Dancing Christmas Lights Show is on display at the Simmons home, located at 68000 Estio Road, between Avenida Maravilla and Vista Chino in Cathedral City.

Mayor Kathy DeRosa will flip the switch. Seasonal music will be provided by Porsia Camilla featuring Fooled by Fiction, and Santa Claus will be brought in by the Cathedral City Fire Department.

Palm Springs Aerial Tramway: Sunday, 5:30 p.m. at the tram's Mountain Station, 1 Tram Way.

Over the next four weeks, 700 trees will make their way from Oregon to this Christmas tree lot in Palm Desert.

Like many Thanksgiving dinners that unfolded across the Coachella Valley on Thursday, the meal served by the Salvation Army in Cathedral City was much about tradition -- for both volunteers and a number of the diners.

All across the Coachella Valley, thousands of people enjoyed Thanksgiving meals thanks to the generosity of many charity and church groups.

A crowd of about 100 people gathered at Whitewater Park in Rancho Mirage early Tuesday to pick up frozen turkeys and bags of groceries to help feed their families for Thanksgiving.