Caliente News

In August 2008, Jacky and Fred Donnell took over ownership of Elmer's Restaurant in Palm Springs.

A 38-year old army reservist from Tehachapi became the first person laid to rest in a casket at the Bakersfield National Cemetery Thursday morning.

With the Cathedral City Library reopening last week, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians donated more than $2,700 to the Books Come Alive program.

The body of an 8-year-old boy missing from outside his residence in Tijuana since Saturday was found yesterday afternoon stuffed into a suitcase.

With California's economy clamped in a tight vise, Native American advocacy on women's issues is more important than ever before, officials said Saturday.

Construction isn't finished at Tower Dogs in the Tower District, but folks already hope to see their favorites at the specialty hot dog shop.

Olga Bentancourt, director of the Coachella Valley Women's Business Center, is the featured speaker for the Mayor's Luncheon on Thursday in Coachella.

MR. LUCKY: Chris Isaak looks more like a movie star than a rock star, which is probably why he's long been a favorite of director David Lynch.

The sound of stories and songs of the past until now filled the Mizell Senior Center Saturday.

"Business travel matters because people matter." That was the rally cry of Lee Morcus, a local restaurateur, at a pro-travel and tourism gathering Tuesday at the Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage.

The Coachella Valley lost nearly $30 million in convention and meetings travel in the past seven months, hospitality leaders said Tuesday, because of the recession and rhetoric from Washington lawmakers that discouraged businesses to follow through with travel plans.

A 79-year-old Sheriff's volunteer from Tehachapi remains hospitalized in critical condition after a car she was in on assignment rolled over her April 22 in Caliente.

A member of the sheriff department's Senior Citizen Unit has been injured in the hills near Caliente.

We always knew Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Chairman Richard Milanovich was a force to be reckoned with.

The Coachella Valley chalked up high-priced hotel property sales and opened the largest new hotel in Riverside County in 2008, but the timing for new ventures couldn't be worse.

Nevada is asking federal authorities to put the brakes on planning what the state calls "a rail line to nowhere" at the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site.

The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians elected two new members to its tribal council, replacing Moraino Patencio and Virginia Gillespie.

WHEN CALIFORNIA voters elect men and women to the state Senate and Assembly, they no doubt expect their legislators to represent them and work for the general good of their districts and the state.

Although spring doesn't officially start until the Vernal Equinox on Friday, March 20, the appearance of luxuriant green grass, our earliest wildflowers and almond blossoms all verify that spring has been ...

CLASSIC JAZZ: It used to be the Desert Dixieland Jazz Festival. Then it was the Desert Swing 'n' Dixieland Festival.