Indio News

The Postal Service perform during Day 2 of the 2013 Coachella Music Festival on April 13, 2013 in Indio, California.

Just north of Interstate 10 and Varner Road are five unfinished houses. These Santa Fe style homes sit in the middle of a dirt lot, vacant and vandalized.

The Desert Water Agency has started crunching numbers to assess potential financial impacts of a water lawsuit by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, and it estimates that customers could see sharply higher water bills if the tribe prevails in court.

Wilson was part of the first overland immigration to Southern California led by Lorenzo Trujillo in 1841 from New Mexico.

A 17-year-old Indio resident was arrested and then released to his parents on suspicion of smoking pot and drinking before getting behind the wheel and crashing into a parked car, it has been reported.

Near the fire, a line of men, boys, and female birdsong dancers from different reservations of the Kumeyaay people sang about safe travels to a better world, and the ocean, mountains and desert during the burning ceremony for Ida Brown, the eldest elder of the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, who passed away June 11 at the age of 90. During the ... (more)

After a relatively short meeting - about an hour - Riverside County supervisors this morning unanimously approved a preliminary budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The final version will be approved in September.

Residents of nearly half of the homes in an Indio mobile home park found themselves displaced this morning in the aftermath of a fire in a laundry room electrical panel, the Riverside County Fire Department reported.

Today is the last day to get deals on local dining, lodging and attractions through Palm Springs Desert Resorts Restaurant Week.

We're still a few months off from knowing who will be playing the 2014 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival , but why should that stop the fun speculation? A few days ago, the news broke that punk-spirited Minneapolis icons The Replacements were reuniting for their first performance in more than 20 years at the punk-leaning Riot Fest in Chicago ... (more)

Utlimate Poker, a site that went live in April, is for Nevada residents only. California needs to proceed carefully in crafting online gambling allowances and protocols that would apply here.

The three leaders vying for control of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians - and its $9 million-a-month haul from its Madera County casino - have undeniably different styles.

The three leaders vying for control of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians - and its $9 million-a-month haul from its Madera County casino - have undeniably different styles.

If you put two 750-foot-tall solar towers in the middle of the desert -- a little bit off Interstate 10, about 60 miles east of Indio -- it's likely they'll be visible.

Recently, 23 students from Bubbling Wells Elementary earned a field trip to Barnes & Noble and Richie's Diner in Palm Desert for achieving their reading goal.

Rachel Priebe, of Riverside, meets television newscaster Tom Brokaw in January at the National World War II Museum event, to which she was invited based on her Salute to Freedom award from the museum for her 2012 National History Day project.

This is the second of a series on the history of Arcata, excerpted from a 137-page report prepared by Guerra & McBane, LLC, for the City of Arcata, Department of Planning and Community Development.

Today, Big Bear Valley is full of water. In 1845, no dam had yet been built and the lush valley was known for being home to a large bear population.

The Coachella Valley Rescue Mission visited a homeless camp under a freeway on-ramp to deliver food, water, hats, shoes, and sunscreen.

A group of residents are saying "not in our backyard" to a local pawn shop looking to expand operations in the city.