Indio News

Rocker turned country star Darius Rucker probably thought that his days battling skeptics along racial lines were over.

The Indio Water Authority is providing residents in the Boe Del Heights neighborhood with clean water for the time being.

A 29-year-old man accused of using an electronic skimmer to steal account information from Chase bank customers at a La Quinta branch pleaded not guilty Tuesday to more than a dozen felony charges.

Faced with a possible $13 million shortfall for next fiscal year's budget, Riverside County Superior Court officials have floated public proposals to shutter one-judge courts in Temecula and the Colorado River city of Blythe to reduce costs.

An Indio High School student was able to fight off a would- be kidnapper today. The girl was walking in the area of De Plata Avenue and Aladdin Street about 8:10 a.m. when a man in a red, two-door vehicle tried talking to her, then got out of his car and tried to physically restrain her, police said.

The former Indio Youth Task Force got a new name and a larger mission. "In changing to the Coachella Valley Community Trust, what their overall goal was to do is expand and diversify to focus on youth development, health services, and job skills training to help all of the east valley, not just Indio," Allison Fedrick of the Coachella Valley ... (more)

The Coachella Valley's Mariner Girl Scout Troop #103, also known as M.S.S. CONCHILLA, traveled to Newport Dunes last weekend to compete in the annual Mariner competition known as GAM.

The 11-month-old poodle-terrier mix - found by a Union Pacific crew tied to train tracks in Mecca on April 2 - finally has a home with Jeff and Louisa Moore and their Tibetan terrier Lali.

Black Oak Casino Resort has received the California Clean Air Award. The Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians were presented the award in recognition of their new smoke-free Hotel.

Thirty "Coachella-type" rock bands on three stages over two days in late August at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, that's the recipe for the inaugural First City Festival.

There is another round of efforts to license online poker in California, but it remains to be seen if a law will emerge or if it will be "no deal," the 2013 version.

"Click It or Ticket," which runs through June 2, targets people who do not wear seatbelts or use them incorrectly.

The crowd listens to Yeasayer during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif., on Saturday, April 13, 2013.

Madera is a long ways from Riverside County, but Riverside County supervisors nevertheless have gone on record opposing the Brown administration's deal with the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians that would allow the tribe to build a casino off Highway 99 in Madera.

Noel Coward once sang that only "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun," but he never attended the Pacific Rim Street Fest, where more than 10,000 visitors poured into Old Sacramento on Sunday.

Dry air, year-round sunshine and healing mineral waters have been drawing the glitterati to Southern California 's desert playland ever since the first hotel opened here in 1886.

After you have recovered from Breezin' through Beaumont 5K this morning, and watched Banning High's solar boat team in Yucaipa, head over this evening Richard Hanks, author of "This War is for a Whole Life: The Culture of Resistance among Southern California Indians, 1850-1966." CONTRIBUTED IMAGE to the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center, 127 N. San ... (more)

Phil Paule, Eastern Municipal Water District board member, on left, and Rosemary Morillo,chairwoman of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, talk in June 2012 to Behrooz Mortazavi, who at the time was an Eastern staff member about imported water delivery to percolation ponds in the San Jacinto Riverbed.

Banjo's hobo days are behind him. The 11-month-old poodle-terrier mix - found by a Union Pacific crew tied to train tracks April 2 in Mecca, Calif.

Richard Hanks, author of This War is for a Whole Life: The Culture of Resistance among Southern California Indians, 1850-1966." A lecture on the fight for Indian sovereignty in Southern California will feature speaker Richard A. Hanks at 7 p.m. Saturday May 18, at Dorothy Ramon Learning Center Gathering Hall in Banning.