The California Restaurant Foundation is launching its fourth Restaurants Care Resilience Fund, which will now include commercial caterers among eligible applicants. Starting today, June 15 and going until June 30,California-based restaurant owners and commercial caterers with fewer than five locations and under $3 million in annual revenue can apply for $5,000 grants through the California restaurant foundation’s restaurants care resilience fund. The grants can be used to cover the cost of…

Here’s some good news for kids and parents in the Morongo Unified School District who rely on our public transit to get around the desert - Basin Transit has announced that students will be able to ride the bus for free starting in July of this year and lasting all the way until June of 2025. Made possible through a grant from the Low Carbon Transit Operations Program - Basin Transit says that all students K-12 in the MUSD can flash their student or government issued ID to the bus driver and…

VOYAGER, a Journey cover band, is going to be rocking Tortoise Rock Casino tonight with a free show.  The show is open to everyone – small town girls living in lonely worlds, city boys from Detroit or other non-desert destinations, or just anyone who just wants to ESCAPE into a night of ROCK AND ROLL. VOYAGER starts playing at 8 tonight at Tortoise Rock Casino in Twentynine Palms – bring a chair This free concert series, called "Live at the Rock," is running every Friday and features a…

A temporary closure in Whitewater Canyon down the hill in Riverside County starts this Saturday, June 1st and stays in effect until October 31st. The BLM says its due to high fire danger in the canyon - a mixture of dry grasses from this winter’s rains and only one road in and out of the canyon, which would make a wildfire evacuation extremely difficult. According to the BLM’s Palm Springs South Coast Field office - only about 4000 of the 1.7 million acres of the public lands they manage will be…

The Yucca Valley High School Girls Soccer Booster hosted a fundraiser for the Lady Trojans Soccer Team, and they said it was a “sold out” success. The Boosters held their first Golf Masters Fundraiser Tournament on May 19, with the goal of buying new uniforms for the team. Coach Samantha Stoker said that the tournament, saw 14 teams compete at Hawks Landing Golf Course in Yucca Valley, bringing in more than $5000 from sponsors, players, and supporters.Stoker thanked the sponsors, and said…