The city's three core revenue sources — Transient Occupancy Tax, Property Tax, and Sales and Use Tax — are up a combined 11.5% from the prior year's mid-year numbers.
Planning staff told the City Council Wednesday that draft maps showing buildings up to five stories tall were based on outdated state guidance, with major decisions still a year away.
The proposed 19,347-square-foot, two-story medical office building would replace a facility destroyed in a 2025 bombing.
More and more, residents from Palm Springs to Indio say, aircraft noise is disrupting daily life. But airport officials say federal law limits what they can do.
After years of citing landscaping workers with little effect, the city began holding property owners accountable in 2024 — and the approach is producing results, code compliance officials told the Sustainability Commission Tuesday.
Any change to the mayoral structure would likely require further legal analysis and could ultimately require voter approval.
Ahead of the Fire Department’s Feb. 23 open house, a group has launched a public campaign with banners, window signs and a petition urging the City Council to relocate the project.
Speaking at a Mizell Center talk hosted by the city library, The Living Desert’s Dr. James Danoff-Burg pointed to a beetle found only in Palm Springs as a vivid example of what’s at stake in preserving Coachella Valley biodiversity.
At a meeting Wednesday evening, residents cited long-term parking, rental car storage and congestion as issues that have been getting worse in their neighborhood.
Police attributed the decline to proactive enforcement and community cooperation, while noting that larceny-theft remained the most common crime despite a 14% drop from the previous year.
The March event, titled "What Matters Next," will offer men a space to reimagine their lives at a time when loneliness and questions of purpose are reshaping how a generation thinks about aging.
Those who knew him and strangers alike came together to remember a man seen daily across the city — and to talk afterward about keeping pedestrians safe.
