Steven Cuevas

Despite public concerns, the Indio City Council on Wednesday approved a two-year contract with the organizers of the Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals.

A group of Inland Empire warehouse workers are suing a Walmart distribution center and two staffing agencies over alleged workplace and wage violations. Last week, California’s labor commissioner fined one of the companies $500,000 over similar allegations.

The California State Labor Commissioner has slapped an Inland warehouse distribution center with a fine of $500,000 after an inspection uncovered violations that included withholding overtime pay to dozens of workers.

Five years ago, a band of photographers transformed a jet hangar at the El Toro Marine Corps airbase into a giant camera. They used it to create "The Great Picture" - the world's largest photograph. Now "The Great Picture" has a soundtrack, made with field recordings from the decommissioned base.

Riverside County authorities are looking for the culprits who scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on the home of a Messianic Jewish family in Hemet. The spray-painted message included a large swastika and the word “Jew” on a garage door of the house.

A traveling public exhibit on suicide awareness and prevention among college students is touring universities throughout the Southland.

Riverside County is reporting its first confirmed human cases of West Nile virus this year. Public health officials say there say three women contracted the mosquito-borne illness last month.

The accusers of a Roman Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing a 12-year old boy are suing him. Attorneys for the victim and his older brother — both teenagers now — are also suing the Diocese of San Bernardino.

Two UC-Riverside marketing professors have won a $414,000 federal grant to study why people use social media and how it affects their emotional well being.

San Bernardino arrested Brandon Taray Barnes, 19, in the Monday night slaying of 3-year-old Nylah Franco-Torrez, according to reports. Another 3-year-old child and her 21-year-old pregnant mother were severely wounded in the attack.