Cathedral City News

Posted by Alexander Nguyen A Cathedral City man set his hospital bed on fire because he was angry that he wasn't allowed to smoke in the emergency room, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday, but a defense attorney argued that his client acted as "a person trapped in that room trying to get out."

Starting Friday night, road work at a Cathedral City intersection is expected to cause traffic backups.

Last month's fire operation is burned into the memory of people living at the Sungate mobile home park community.

Indio tops the list of most murders committed in the Coachella Valley this year.

Felony charges were filed Tuesday against a Cathedral City man suspected of robbing two ice cream vendors and a landscaper in Cathedral City.

Robert E. "Pinky" Knauf, 86, of Cathedral City, Calif., died July 3 at Manor Care Medical Center in Palm Desert, Calif.

A police chase that began on the border of Cathedral City and Palm Springs ends with a crash in Palm Desert early Thursday Evening.

The first ever Palm Springs Tattoo Convention will get underway Friday at the Hard Rock Hotel.

It's appropriate that this new sitcom had its premiere in - where else? - Sweden ahead of its U.S. debut.

A new Cathedral City flood control project is now providing flood control protection for the homes and businesses below it.

The food truck debate rolls on in the Coachella Valley. After the county lifted major restrictions on the mobile vendors in April, valley cities have mulled their own rules.

A judge appointed a psychologist to examine a 22-year-old man suspected of making explosive devices at a Cathedral City mobile home.

Charles VanWinkle and his partner Rich Henrich, of Film Four Change, received the Emmy for best direction in short form for their three 30-second commercial spots - titled 'AMFM: A Love Story' - during the 40th annual Pacific Southwest Regional National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ceremony last month.

"I don't love the idea of taxpayers supporting a program that residents in general ... have complained bitterly about," said Cathedral City Councilman Sam Toles, who cast the sole vote against continuing his city's camera program in May. "It's a very, very intrusive kind of 'nanny state-ism' that I think the public generally does not support."

Fireworks aren't the only thing shooting sky high, so are food prices. This Fourth of July will cost you more than ever to fire up the grill with all of the fixings.

You'll find some wild names for sparklers, including Tiger Fury, Lucky Leprechaun and Hasta La Vista Baby and more, at "Safe and Sane" fireworks stands in the Coachella Valley.

According to police, 31-year-old Joaquin Fuster of Cathedral City was stopped around 2:40 a.m. in the 600 block of South Palm Canyon Drive for a vehicle code violation.

According to a release from the Cathedral City Police Department, the crash happened on Varner Road, east of Mountain View Road, just before 7 p.m. Officers said the man was on a straight part of Varner Road about to arrive at a curve, but when he did, he continued straight instead of turning.

The Riverside Press-Enterprise says the home at the Sungate County Mobile Home Park in Cathedral City was set ablaze shortly after 10:30 p.m. Friday.

Flames shot up into the sky in a controlled fire to destroy a mobile home filled with explosives.