A 5 year-old child drowned in a pool at a house in Yucca Valley. At around 11:35 a.m. on Friday (August 9), San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a 911 call related to a drowning child at a house in the 57000 block of Crestview Drive in Yucca Valley. Responding deputies say that the boy's parents performed CPR until they arrived, at which point deputies and and personnel from the Department took over life saving measures. The child was taken to Hi-Desert Medical Center,…

The Perseid Meteor shower proved to be a quieter affair in the Morongo Basin in 2024. The event proved to be a major challenge for our community in 2023, owing to a confluence of the event occurring on a weekend, favorable light conditions, and national media coverage of the event. Last year’s event saw an unprecedented number of visitors, causing traffic jams and a record-setting number of visitors at the national park. Observers arrived from all over the world to see the astrological…

Today is the deadline to file for candidacy in a local elected political body in our county for this election year. San Bernardino County's Registrar of Voters has set today (August 9) as the final day to file to run for a local elected office. The County Registrar of Voters handles elections throughout the Morongo Basin, for both unincorporated areas like Joshua Tree and Morongo Valley as well as for the Town of Yucca Valley and the City of Twentynine Palms. The Registrar's office…

The Perseid meteor shower has the hi-desert bracing for a repeat of last year’s wild night that saw thousands of visitors crawl like tortoises toward the national park to spot some dark skies. Joshua Tree National Park is nearly 800,000 acres of pristine desert wilderness set aside for humans like you and me to ramble around on, getting up close and personal with plants and animals that can only be seen in this exact spot on earth. While there are borders to the National Park, the flora…