Mecca News

Michael Burns hopes his visit to the mobile Workforce Development Center, parked outside Coachella City Hall, pays off.

State Senator John Benoit is back in the Desert Thursday after being named Wednesday to fill the position left by the late Riverside County Supervisor Roy Wilson.

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors today approved a $2.7 million project to rehabilitate streets, sidewalks, outdoor lighting and other infrastructure throughout the city of Mecca.

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Some of the millions who travel to Saudi Arabia next month for the annual hajj will be greeted with face masks, hand sanitizer and fever checks as health officials strive to stem the spread of swine flu during the world's largest pilgrimage.

Pests that can carry a "death sentence" of a disease for citrus trees have been discovered near the Coachella Valley, prompting farming officials to expand a quarantine boundary near the area.

Water connections for two mobile home developments are forging ahead. Officials with the Coachella Valley Water District and Mission Springs Water District in the next week will finalize bids and award contracts to connect the La Pena Housing Facility in Mecca and Whispering Sands Mobile Home Park in Desert Hot Springs.

Connecting two mobile home parks to the Coachella Valley and Mission Springs water districts are among 160 water projects statewide that have received stimulus funding, the governor's office announced today.

The Muslim holy book Quran carries both peace-inspiring and war-inciting guidance.

The fourth annual binational health fair "Fiesta Campesina" will be held in Mecca today.

A noninjury, wind-fanned fire that started at a Mecca home Monday quickly scorched 25 acres of brush.

Creator-producer Merv Griffin's classic game-show version of 'hangman' has kept on spinning for three decades.

A fire has destroyed a Mecca home this afternoon and sent flames onto nearby vegetation.

A small gas station on the eastern edge of Indio Boulevard has become a complex and a comfort zone for the economically and emotionally disadvantaged.

Officials are continuing their search for a man suspected of fleeing the scene of a fatal hit- and-run nearly two years ago in Mecca.

Alcohol intoxication is suspected in last night's single-car rollover that killed a 52-year-old North Shore motorist and smashed part of a mobile home where an adult and three children narrowly escaped injury, according to California Highway Patrol investigators, coroner's officials and fire department crews.

Deputy Ismael Celaya is the Riverside County Sheriff's Department's agricultural liaison.

The Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District announced today that two new mosquito samples from the valley have tested positive for West Nile virus.

Cuba has more legends and lore going for it than any other country in the Americas, yet most of us don't have any first hand-knowledge of this small island country that is only 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

Investigators have arrested four suspects in a pair of thefts that occurred within a single weekend more than a week ago.