The Town of Yucca Valley Senior Center is hosting a patriotic Independence Day Lunch Party for the hi-desert’s senior community on Thursday (July 3) from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Yucca Valley Community Center. The event will bring seniors together for a communal celebration of America’s birthday with...
Flamingo Heights Community Center is kicking off Independence Day weekend Wednesday night (July 2) with a screening of the Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze/Lori Petty crime caper Point Break. They are screening it at sundown with grilled burgers and hotdogs. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and the Flamingo Heights Community Center...
Caltrans continues its pavement and shoulder widening project on Old Woman Springs Road (SR247) near Yucca Valley. Work will pause during the 4th of July holiday weekend, but is expected to resume next week. During construction lane closures and traffic flagging are in effect with pilot vehicles guiding drivers...
Updated July 1st, 2:00 p.m. with news on Howdy's post-surgery status: Howdy is out of surgery and the specialty surgeon at VCA Yucca Valley Animal Hospital reports that Howdy has a urinary blockage and between 25 and 40 urinary stones. He also has a chronic bladde rupture that caused an...
The Wolf Fire burning south of Banning in the hills east of State Route 243 is now burning 2,414 acres, nearly doubling in size since Monday (June 30). The fire began at around 3:00 p.m. on Sunday (June 29), and under the command of Cal Fire and Riverside County...
A man alleged to have attempted to fight deputies was tased and arrested in Twentynine Palms. On Thursday (June 26) at around 6:30 a.m., San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies say they attempted to conduct a pedestrian check on a man they know to be on probation near the intersection of...
Though the Morongo Basin is not under direct threat, several wildfires are burning in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, sending smoke into the hi-desert community. The Wolf Fire burning south of Banning in the hills east of State Route 243 is now burning 1,165 acres. The fire began at around...
A house fire in Wonder Valley sent one person to the hospital for burns, displaced a family of four, and led to one arrest. On Friday morning (June 27) at around 4:30 a.m., Sheriff’s deputies responded to the 5300 block of Jade Ln in Wonder Valley. Deputies told San Bernardino...
This Friday (July 4) is Independence Day, and residents of the Morongo Basin know that we like to go all out for America's Birthday, especially with the nearby Marine Base and our large community of active and former military personnel. Fireworks remain illegal throughout San Bernardino County, and illegal fireworks...
Dawn Rowe, Chairman of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, was recently on the weekly Up Close show with Gary Daigneault. Here’s part of that conversation where Gary and Dawn discuss economic development in San Bernardino County. Gary: Economic development is a big priority for San Bernardino County. What...
The Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board meets Tuesday morning in Yucca Valley to receive an update on the Town of Yucca Valley's Septic System Prohibition Update. The regional board for the State agency tasked with restoring the quality of California's drinking water meets monthly around the...
Tuesday's regularly scheduled meeting of the Yucca Valley Town Council has been cancelled due to what the Town says is a lack of quorum. The Yucca Valley Town Council is set to meet in regular session next on July 15. Though the Twentynine Palms Planning Commission typically meets on the...
In the early days of Summer in 1992, Joshua Tree was still a little shaken up from a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that had rumbled through the area on April 22. Thirty-two people were injured and homes, a supermarket, and public school buildings were damaged, but luckily no one died. But...
Have you been probed? That's the question on the mind of the cosmically iconic hi-desert freak-out band Alien Probe. Front-woman Space-Chick's rantings about aliens, George Van Tassel, and probes is supported by the band's outlandish pyschedelia. Their music is as at home here on the Morongo Basin's dusty terra...
Hotel Mercy is a new straightforward rock band that's playing their debut show Saturday night at Art Beat in Joshua Tree. Gabriel Hart and Tim Gray are half of the four piece and they joined me in the Z107.7 studios to talk about the new project, and how their...
Pride Month continues its journey through Joshua Tree this weekend, and tonight Lady Chilane and Mr. Jeffro are hosting a Gaylactic Glitter Pride Ball: Queer Across the Universe - a pride celebration that promises a cosmic night of drag, dance and dazzling self-expression. Once again it’s taking place at the JT...
The Morongo Basin Amateur Radio Club (MBARC) has been transmitting and receiving out of the hi-desert since 1971 and this weekend they'll be holding a "Field Day" out of the Yucca Mesa Community Center. I spoke with MBARC Vice President Larry Mollica about amateur radio and why communication over the airwaves still...