Cathedral City News

"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.

It's the American dream to own a home. To hear the tax collector say you no longer own it is a nightmare.

A 25 year-old gunshot victim was hospitalized in serious condition Tuesday after he was delivered to the parking lot of a Cathedral City convenience store, police said.

Police officers were clearing a call at the Cathedral Canyon 7-11 store on the 88500 block of Dinah Shore when officers say a motorist pulled into the parking lot with a man who'd been shot inside a green Toyota 4Runner.

A Cathedral City man was killed late Saturday night after his car crashed into an electrical pole in Desert Hot Springs, according to the Desert Hot Springs Police Department.

Patrick McMahon, whom John F. Kennedy had rescued on the PT-109 during World War II, at his Encinitas home in 1983.

Before the arrival of Europeans to North America, Native Americans lived in harmony with nature, graciously taking only what they needed from the land in order to sustain their lives.

It's been more than a month since the Ramon Road rehabilitation project finished, and Cathedral City's Economic Development Division is eager to show off their work.

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil-rights group, looked at 291 cities nationwide.

A Coachella Valley resident drove a one-time friend to the desert at the behest of his co-defendant, who suspected the 21-year-old victim of breaking into his condominium, and gunned down the young man and abandoned his body "for no one to find," a prosecutor alleged Tuesday.

Construction workers at the Eagle Canyon Dam project just outside the city will have what's expected to be their "last blast" on-site Monday afternoon.

The senses were overcome by a dazzling sea of flowers, toe-tapping music, dancing and the savory smells of delicious treats at the Dia de Los Muertos celebration.