Thermal News

The Coachella Valley skies were full of action Saturday as plane after plane took to the air during the sixth annual Jacqueline Cochran Air Show in Thermal, about 32 miles east of Palm Springs.

The sixth annual Jacqueline Cochran Air Show starts Saturday at the regional airport in Thermal.

Derek Nigel Lopez, 31, is suspected of trying to kill a Cathedral City man on June 20, 2008, according to the Riverside County District Attorney's Office.

Rebecca Shaw and Mike Tones are new Phish fans, but they're into the band enough to travel from Helena, Mont., to Phish Festival 8 in Indio - in their Prius.

An online group of Phish fans gave $3,000 to music education programs at three Coachella Valley Unified School District schools.

October 30, 2009 Envirogen Technologies announced recently that it has been contracted to provide a drinking water treatment system for Oasis Water Corp., a new privately owned water utility created to service the residents of Desert Oasis Mobile Home Park in Thermal, Calif.

A man walked into the Cal Fire Station in Thermal, this morning, suffering from a stab wound.

Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man suspected of trying to rob two men and then shooting one of them in Coachella in August.

Riverside County Sheriff's Deputies arrested a Thermal man, and plan to charge him with attempted murder of a peace officer for nearly running down a California Highway Patrol officer over the weekend.

Firefighters worked Sunday to extinguish a vegetation fire that scorched about 70 acres of brush in Thermal.

A California Highway Patrol officer writing a ticket was almost mowed down by a vehicle driven by someone fleeing a suspicious early-morning conclave today, a sheriff's spokesperson said.

A man and a woman were arrested Friday in connection with the armed robbery of two door-to-door salesmen in Coachella.

Good morning from the City Desk, where we're looking forward to eating lunch outside at the farmers market in front of City Hall.

Two arrests were made Friday less than a month after an armed robbery in Coachella, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

Reporting from Thermal, Calif. - High noon in Duroville and nothing moved but a swirl of dust and a lone American flag flapping in the scorching breeze.

Temperatures in the low 100s and the absence of a "monsoon season" this summer have contributed to a high-quality date crop this year, Coachella Valley farmers say.

If you wanted to write a recipe for potential disaster, you might do what Gil Mathew did at the beginning of 2008 and become an economic development director hired at the start of a national recession.

"I want to do something to show them, it's not easy, but you can do it." Diaz is one of the first students at the new campus to take advantage of the work-study program, offered as part of a financial aid package.

The Jacqueline Cochran Air Show is scheduled for Nov. 7 at the Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport, 56850 Higgins Road, Thermal.

While I agree that more jobs are needed, I don't want the proposed race track. Instead of a race track, that eastern part of the desert should seek green jobs.