Indio News

The Coachella Valley History Museum is looking for ethnic and cultural groups to be involved in the Heritage and World Day Festival on March 27.

Within the next three to six months, the Indio City Council would like to see some headway made on the proposed transit center, a downtown College of the Desert campus and possibly placing a utility users tax on the November ballot.

Scholarships for middle and high school students from the Indio Youth Task Force will soon become available.

It's been a little while since I've written one of these, I know. I blame the relentless daily grind and its effect on my creative juices, which used to flow in a healthy torrent and now trickle in erratic drips and bursts.

A man shot an Indio cabbie twice in the head because he was "hard up for money," a prosecutor said today, but the defense lawyer reminded the seven-woman, five-man jury that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty.

District Attorney Rod Pacheco will host a free community summit for parents and students called 'Say No to Gangs' from 4:30 to 7 p.m. tonight at the Indio Teen Center, 81-678 Avenue 46.

A La Quinta massage parlor raided in a prostitution sting this week was also involved in a rape investigation involving a former Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy.

Opening statements are scheduled today in the murder trial of a 37-year-old man accused of shooting an Indio cabbie in the head six years ago during a robbery.

SAN JACINTO - Ryan Yip, a Canadian player and part-time Indio resident, fired a 3-under 68 on Thursday to maintain his lead after two rounds of the California State Open.

PTM General Engineering Services will install a traffic signal soon on Fred Waring Drive at Burr Street.

La Quinta resident Juan Garza was among 800 people looking for work at a job fair in Indio on Friday.

Several Hollywood celebrities and Playboy Playmates will play in the third annual Playboy Golf Scramble this weekend on the Eagle Falls golf course at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, 84-245 Indio Springs Parkway.

The city will increase its water storage by 7.5 million gallons with the completion of two water reservoirs in the spring.

Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack will host a job fair at the Workforce Development Center in Indio on Friday, November 13th between 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Workforce Development Center, located at 44199 Monroe Street, Indio, California 92201.

A La Quinta massage parlor accused of prostitution was at the center of a rape investigation involving a former Riverside County sheriff's deputy earlier this year.

Hundreds of volunteers came together Thursday to rebuild a park at South Jackson and Date in the city of Indio.

It's short notice but inidividuals who are out of work and near Indio could stop by a job fair at the Workforce Development Center at 44199 Monroe St.

The owner and two employees of Point Happy Massage Therapy on Highway 111 and Washington Street have been arrested for pimping, prostitution and meth possession.

Indio police are investigating an overnight shooting that happened around 8:20pm Monday night.

As Phish's powerful rendition of The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street defined their Halloween desert escapade, Festival 8, it was a line from the immortal songwriting team of Jagger/Richards that best summed up the drama of Phish festivals 1-7: "You Can't Always Get What You Want." From an author who has made it 8 for 8 without ever getting ...