Indio News

The Riverside County Sheriff's Department is hiring. It held a career fair Saturday at the Palm Desert Sheriff's station to demonstrate what joining the team is all about.

The Board of Supervisors next week will consider whether to authorize the sale of up to $325 million in bonds to cover construction costs for the East County Detention Center in Indio, as well as other public projects in Riverside County.

Drummer Tommy Ramone, the last surviving founding member of the pioneering punk band The Ramones, has died, the band announced on social media Saturday.

He admitted to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribe money to Gary Edward Kovall, an Ely, Minn., attorney who for many years was general counsel to the tribe that operates Spotlight 29 Casino in Coachella and just opened its second gaming venture, Tortoise Rock Casino in Twentynine Palms.

Children get up close with sharks at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History's Sea Center.

The public is invited to attend the Chi Council meeting on July 23 at 3:30 p.m. at the Lake County Agriculture Center.

Sacramento, California - Majority Floor Leader V. Manuel PA©rez is pleased to report that five local jurisdictions - the cities of Calexico, El Centro, Indio, and Coachella and the County of Imperial - have been awarded funding from the Housing-Related Parks program administered by the State of California's Department of Housing and Community ... (more)

Potential applicants will have an opportunity to speak with recruiters and current employees about job opportunities and attend presentations on Saturday at the sheriff's Palm Desert station, beginning at 8 a.m. Open positions include correctional deputy, correctional cook, accounting assistant and office assistant.

A suspected Indio Bank robber is behind bars, in fact, he's actually been in jail since June 17, according to Indio Police Spokesman Sgt.

Today's drive runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Indio Teen Center, 81678 Avenue 46. It's part of the Nine Cities Blood Drive Challenge, in which Coachella Valley cities compete to collect the most blood donations.

On Ninth Street in San Francisco, Julian Grant saw the bumper sticker on a 40-or-so-year-old Oldsmobile, badly in need of a paint job: "Horn Broke! Watch for Finger!" The exhibition "Yosemite: A Storied Landscape," at the California Historical Society until Jan. 25, was long in the making, just like the geology of the place.

SACRAMENTO >> A federal judge in Sacramento on Monday granted a preliminary injunction requested by the state of California in its case against the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians that keeps armed personnel away from Rolling Hills Casino and other tribal properties, and also cleared the way for an agreement announced by two factions of the tribe ... (more)

Justin Bieber will be charged in Los Angeles in connection with an egg-throwing incident in January that damaged a neighbor's home.

Musician Beck performs onstage during day 3 of the 2014 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 20, 2014 in Indio, California.

"Lost Sirens" was the influential synth-pop band's ninth studio outing -- and its first since 2005's "Waiting for the Sirens' Call."

The Palm Springs Spa Resort Hotel closed Tuesday evening after for more than five decades.

If you're looking for an interesting combination of California sunshine and the pizzazz of Las Vegas, jump in your jitney and motor on out to Harrah's Resort Southern California.

Citing a jury instruction error, a three-judge state appeals court panel unanimously overturned the conviction of a man who co-owned a multi-state prostitution ring based in Palm Springs, the defendant's attorney said Tuesday.

Rival factions within a Native American tribe fighting over a Northern California casino and other assets have agreed to a binding general election.

According to a release from Don Casper, public relations director for the Indio Rotary Club, the scholarships were presented at Shadow Hill's Academic Reward Night on June 4 by Indio Rotary Club President Bruce Latta.