Desert Hot Springs News

A representative from the local SunLine Transit Agency will be on hand at the Desert Hot Springs Senior Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 13, with information and applications for the transit agency's half fares and SunDial services.

The family of an 83-year-old Desert Hot Springs woman has yet to be found, nearly a week after the woman was discovered dead near Needles Highway and the Nevada state line in San Bernardino County, a deputy coroner said today.

"He's kind of weird, he's got kind of mental problems," said Pierce Cottingham, the former roommate of a stabbing suspect known only as "Gilbert." We told him that "Gilbert" is a suspect in a stabbing Thursday evening in Desert Hot Springs.

Authorities are looking for family members of an 83-year-old woman whose body was found Monday in a Needles field near her abandoned vehicle.

A woman died Wednesday after her vehicle was hit broadside by a sport utility vehicle between North Palm Springs and Desert Hot Springs.

Two Desert Hot Springs residents, described as the city's main rival drug dealers by federal and local authorities, face life in federal prison following their arrests Tuesday in an a series of raids dubbed "Operation Falling Sun Phase II." Rigoberto Lopez, 22, Miguel Gilbert, 26 and Lopez' girlfriend, Teresa Coronado, 20, were taken into ...

Summer vacation time is here, so don't let a lack of money or time be a reason to dump plans for a needed retreat.

Firefighters say a Desert Hot Springs home is a "total loss" after flames tore through it overnight.

A 150-ton piece of equipment that will cap off a nuclear reactor made its way through Palm Springs early this morning, California Highway Patrol officials said.

He may have new duties, but new Division Fire Chief Dorian J. Cooley is not new to the Coachella Valley.

A man who shot his roommate in the back after the victim ordered him to do the dishes and turn down the air conditioner in the mobile home they shared was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder.

Closing arguments were scheduled to begin Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of murdering his roommate for annoying him.

The Desert Hot Springs City Council on Monday approved a balanced $14 million general fund budget for 2009-2010 that closes a nearly $4 million gap with city employee layoffs, furloughs, benefit cuts and early retirement, among other cost-saving measures.

Two Desert Hot Springs men were in custody Friday on suspicion of robbing a homeowner at gunpoint, but a third suspect remained at large, a sheriff's sergeant said.

A motorist trying to use his cell phone while driving crashed into a boulder Tuesday, injuring himself and his passenger, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A retired chief deputy sheriff is announcing today that he's running for Riverside County sheriff in 2010.

Cabot's Trading Post & Gallery and the Desert Hot Springs Visitors' Center switch over to their summer hours this week.

The Desert Hot Springs City Council will hold its regular public meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Carl May Community Center, 11-711 West Drive.

The king of the Rat Pack called it home. And his desert playground is still hot stuff, says Valerie James Why Palm Springs? Why Palm Springs? There had been a film colony here since the 1930s, and Sinatra's first house was just around the corner from the homes of Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Cary Grant.

A suspect believed responsible for the May 30 stabbing of a clerk during a robbery at the Rite-Aid in Desert Hot Springs is in custody, police said Monday.