Thermal News

One of the state's newest air travel experiments is eying the Palm Springs area as a future destination.

Large-scale tragedies this spring put the spotlight on, among other things, the need for blood to be immediately available for local hospitals.

At a dusty field outside a high school in Thermal, plans for a small farm have started to take root, and a local charity hopes to grow enough crops to feed both bellies and minds.

When I opened my Desert Sun last Sunday morning and saw your lead story I thought, what a coincidence! Our Palm Desert Rotary Club has initiated a comprehensive service effort that addresses the needs of east Coachella Valley farmworkers in a humanitarian way, not political.

Three women have been hospitalized this afternoon after breathing in fumes used for refrigeration purposes at a Thermal commercial building, fire officials said.

The incident was reported at 1:41 p.m. Thursday, June 6, along the 57800 block of Desert Cactus Drive, where there is a cluster of businesses in a mostly agricultural area.

Megan Beaman always knew she was a little different. As a young girl living in a largely white working-class rural town in Iowa, Beaman saw things that others did not.

Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway-like robotic vehicles.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers along the California border with Mexico apprehended 28 wanted fugitives this past weekend, including three wanted for homicide.

A murder charge was filed today against a Thermal man suspected in the beating death of a 2-year-old boy.

On Saturday, Daniel Valenzuela Rodriguez, 24, applied for entry at the Calexico port of entry as a passenger in a vehicle.

We have an update on the dozens of dogs rescued by animal services from a rundown mobile home park near Thermal.

On May 17, 2013, at 3:50 PM, deputies from the Thermal Sheriff's Station responded to a reported juvenile medical aid near the 88000 block of Airport Boulevard in Thermal.

A Thermal man suspected in the beating death of a 2-year-old boy was found near the border in Calexico early today and arrested, a sheriff's spokesman said.

Liberty Quarry is dead . But for one Riverside County supervisor, the debate over the proposed Temecula-area mine had a lasting effect on how the Board of Supervisors does business.

The Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner's office said in a statement Tuesday that Jorge Lizarraga suffered from "unexplained injuries" before dying at a hospital.

Authorities looking into the death of a 2-year-old child in Thermal are now calling the case a murder investigation, according to Riverside County sheriff's Cpl.