Thermal News

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.

The way kids learn in school is changing as technology in education becomes more common.

Estimated start dates for the spring table grape crop out of California's Coachella Valley range from as early as May 10 to as late as May 20, depending on which growers you talk to.

The spring crop of vegetables and melons out of California's Coachella and Imperial valleys may be a brief one, but growers expect to ship a wide range of good-quality products before temperatures approach the triple-digit range.

Cal Fire crews are battling a two-alarm fire at the Jewel Date Company, at 60th Avenue and Harrison Street, where a building next to the date grove is involved.

Four people were injured, one critically, in a two-vehicle crash in Thermal this afternoon, a county fire department spokeswoman said.

Just as summer in the desert arrives, construction of the College of the Desert east valley campus in Indio has kicked into high gear.

The temperature peaked at 106 degrees in Thermal by about 2:30 p.m. That beats the previous heat record for the day, which was 105 degrees set in 1959.