Mecca News

A room in the La Quinta Public Library will get some personal touches thanks to the work of the local youth in partnership with the S.C.R.A.P. Gallery.

Hundreds of seniors in Coachella lined up Wednesday to get a free H1N1 vaccine during the East Coachella Valley Senior Resource Fair at the Eleanor Shadowen Senior Center.

The Coachella Valley Water District will use a recently issued grant to hook up a Mecca mobile home park to the agency's water distribution system, the district announced Monday.

In these challenging economic times, when the arts have been cut from school budgets, the mission of Tools for Tomorrow is even more imperative: Provide free, on-site after-school literacy enrichment programs integrating writing, drama, art and music in elementary schools throughout the Coachella Valley.

Five people were arrested and 25 were cited during a DUI/Driver's License checkpoint in Thermal Friday evening, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

A senior Iranian prosecutor accused three Americans detained on the border with Iraq of espionage on Monday, the first signal that Tehran intends to put them on trial.

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.