By STEFANIE DAZIO, ETHAN SWOPE, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dueling groups of protesters clashed Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another. Hours earlier, police carrying riot shields burst into a building at Columbia

North Indian Canyon Drive will be open for traffic Friday for the first time since Tropical Storm Hilary ravaged the Coachella Valley in August. The city announced that N. Indian Canyon Dr. at the Mission Creek Crossing would open Friday at 5:00 p.m. The roadway is a major path in and out of the city.

We now know who won the 2024 St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway! Congratulations to Lori Pillatzke of Rancho Mirage! Pillatzke has won a brand new home in La Quinta valued at $850,000. You can still donate to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at: https://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR;jsessionid=00000000.app20114b?fr_id=155189&pg=entry&NONCE_TOKEN=3A6F63C5F1197ED3788FF17BC30D9283 The money raised will help make sure no family receives a

Some restaurant owners in Palm Desert are concerned over the City’s new guidelines for outdoor dining decks, often also known as parklets. The city’s updated Outdoor Dining Deck Temporary Use Permit program is set to take effect on July 1 and will require restaurant owners to submit paperwork along with a proposed fee in order

The Riverside County Office of Education awarded scholarships to 9 high school students today. The “Student of the Year” awards featured soon-to-be graduates from all three desert school districts. Each student was awarded $2,500, which is going towards their college tuition. The awards were a culmination of the year-long Greater Coachella Valley Student of the

Palm Springs firefighters and other municipal employees will begin weed abatement and other brush clearance on the west end of the city Wednesday as part of a program to eliminate hazards heading into Southern California’s wildfire season.   The workers will begin the day at the Historic Tennis Club Neighborhood near the North Lykken Trailhead, Palm

The Coachella Football Club will begin its inaugural season in the USL League Two, with its first game this weekend.  Coachella FC is the first pre-professional soccer team in the valley.  Team officials said that they aim to launch young careers in the world of soccer, mirroring the careers of those in USL League Two

A judge confirmed an Aug. 29 trial date today for Cameron Francis Curtis, a Palm Desert High School teacher and football coach accused of striking and killing a pedestrian while intoxicated. Curtis, 32, previously pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge after allegedly driving into 64-year-old Nancy Valdes of Palm Desert. Curtis was also