The 10th annual Woof Walk was held on April 6, and in addition to the parade of pups prancing through Pioneertown, the event raised significant funding for Joshua Tree No-Kill Shelter. The registration fee for the parade, along with funds generated from the live and silent auctions, brought in nearly $30,000. More than 400 people attended the event, to shop, hear music, and let their dogs mingle, and they raised nearly $23,000 on the day of the event. An additional $6000 was raised in an…

Tonight at the Old Schoolhouse Museum, you can learn everything about gold mining that you were afraid to ask. As part of the Twentynine Palms Historical Society's ‘Fridays at The Museum,’ lecture series, the First Class Miners Club will present a program about Gold Dry-washing and a panning demonstration. If you're unfamiliar with the First Class Miners Club, Z107.7's Heather Clisby followed them out on a mining expedition in the Morongo Basin. She described them as "FCM’S…

A fun and educational spin on classic bar trivia hits the desert tonight. Tiny Pony Tavern in Yucca Valley is hosting a special, one-night only Desert Ecology Trivia game tonight. Organized by Sarah Witt as a capstone for her naturalist studies at UCR Palm Desert, her Desert Ecology Trivia will feature fun questions about the Morongo Basin, the national park, and the desert environment. Sarah Witt: “This is Desert ecology trivia. We're going to be looking at living and non-living…

The Z107.7 News Department was recognized over the weekend by the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California at the 74th Annual Golden Mike Awards. Z107.7 received two nominations for our reporting in 2023. The first nomination was for Best News Reporting, Radio Division, recognizing Heather Clisby’s coverage of the Twentynine Palms City Council’s dismantling of the Tourism Business Improvement District, and their subsequent reversal of the decision at a later…

The newly repaired bridge is known as Bridge 70, and it is about a mile east of Saltus Road, east of Amboy. Originally built in 1930, it is a wooden trestle bridge used as part of National Trails Highway, which was once part of Route 66. Damage to its its load-bearing wooden components was discovered during a routine inspection by California's state roadway authority, CalTrans, and the bridge was closed immediately on February 15. The wooden components were showing signs of major decay…