Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, an observance of the civil rights leader’s birthday.  As such, government agencies, including local municipalities, county services including courts and records, and federal agencies, including the United States Post Office, will be closed until tomorrow (January 21). Morongo Unified School District schools are closed for today. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Morongo Basin Station offices will be closed. For law enforcement contact please call…

Two minors were arrested for investigation into stealing $400,000 worth of Nike gear from a train in Amboy. On Wednesday (January 15) at approximately 6:40 p.m., BNSF Railway police contacted the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Morongo Basin Station about a train that was actively being burglarized by multiple suspects in the area of Amboy and National Trails Highway. Deputies traveled toward the scene and saw an unmarked white van traveling west on Amboy Road near Zelda Lane in Wonder…

One person was killed in a high speed collision involving a garbage truck on Twentynine Palms Highway. The California Highway Patrol said that on Tuesday (January 14), at approximately 4:15 p.m., a Nissan Sentra was traveling at a high speed eastbound on Twentynine Palms Highway near Kerr Avenue. The CHP says that a Chevrolet Silverado was traveling eastbound in front of the Nissan at a slow speed. The CHP says that the Nissan steered to the right to avoid hitting the Chevrolet, and the…

At yesterday’s meeting of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, Dawn Rowe, who was recently re-elected to represent the county’s Third District, which includes the Morongo Basin, was re-elected as the Chair of the County Board of Supervisors. Supervisor Rowe served as chair person of the board through 2024.