Thousand Palms News

A Thousand Palms facility designed for firefighters to get the training they need to protect Coachella Valley residents is scheduled to open today.

If you are looking for a new pet, this weekend will offer the perfect opportunity to meet your next best friend, as local animal shelters bring more than 100 dogs and cats to a multi-agency adoption fair in Palm Desert.

Riverside County dedicated a new fire station and training center in honor of the late county Supervisor Roy Wilson Saturday.

Riverside County and local officials will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday morning to commemorate the opening of the Roy Wilson Fire Station and Training Center in Thousand Palms.

SunLine Transit Agency will operate SunBus on the regular weekday schedule for Veterans Day.

The Palm Springs City Council will consider a new ordinance that would require 75-percent of waste from construction and demolition projects to be recycled.

Palm Springs City Council Outlook for Nov. 4, 2009 Contact: Amy Blaisdell Director of Communications City of Palm Springs 323-8250 Nov.

Flu season is here -- and with it, reminders to get flu shots and other tips to keep yourself healthy.

The state attorney general's office is investigating allegations that an investigator from the Riverside County District Attorney's Office filed false police reports.

A valley elementary school was without water Wednesday morning after a car crashed into equipment that supplies the school's water.

About 35 residents of Thousand Palms gathered Monday to strategize in the face of Cathedral City's application to add 4,100 county acres to its sphere of influence.

It's disturbing to hear comparisons of the war in Afghanistan to the Vietnam War, even though in some ways it might be appropriate.

Officers from a number of law enforcement agencies came knocking on doors across the Valley Thursday as part of a parole and probation sweep.

A $4,000 air conditioning unit was reportedly stolen from the Animal Samaritans' Thousand Palms location on Sunday, eliminating the nonprofit group's ability to perform animal surgery.

Anyone who lives in the Coachella Valley should know what it's like to drive through a sandstorm.

An indoor firing range, a 5,000-square-foot tactical training center, one Titanium Lounge and an expanded retail center for guns, ammunition and gear are part of a new joint venture near Sun City Palm Desert.

Saturdays @ Canyon Plaza South reopens for the season Saturday. Cathedral City shoppers can check out the wares on display from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Like last year, the event will take place in the parking lot next to McDonald's restaurant just off East Palm Canyon Drive across from Trader Joe's. The open-air market is one of several in the Coachella ...

More law enforcement officials are on the streets in the eastern portion of the Coachella Valley today as various agencies conduct extra patrols and sweeps, which officials said are not unusual.

Three teens are behind bars after an overnight shooting near Panorama park. It happened on the 68-200 block of Tortuga Road in Cathedral City.

Thousand Palms residents can bring bulky trash items to a free disposal site from 8 a.m. to noon today at Della S. Lindley Elementary School.