Steven Cuevas

The three-day Coachella Music Festival is underway at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio. Nearly 200 bands are scheduled to play. Though the festival is sold out, the crowds might be smaller than usual. That’s because organizers are cracking down on gate-crashers and illegal ticket sales.

Pacific Gas & Electric is forming a citizen advisory committee in the Mojave desert town of Hinkley. That committee will help keep an eye on PG&E’s protracted cleanup of Hinkley’s tainted water supply.

Organizers of this weekend’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio are warning concertgoers to beware of counterfeit passes. Fans should also be ready for heightened security.

A federal judge has thrown out Temecula’s lawsuit against the Pechanga Indian tribe. Temecula had sued the tribe over fees for services it provided to the casino and hotel complex.

Victims of violent crime will be the focus of several candlelight vigils throughout the Inland Empire. The first vigil is scheduled for tonight at Civic Center Park in Palm Desert.

For years, some historians dismissed the Watergate exhibit at the Nixon Presidential Library as a whitewash. That has changed. A revamped exhibit at the Yorba Linda museum now documents in exhaustive detail the events that led to the downfall of a president.

Gov. Jerry Brown rolled into the Southland on Friday for the first stop in a statewide road trip aimed at winning support for his plan to close the state’s $26 billion budget gap. His first stop: Arlanza Elementary School in Riverside.

Charles Bukowski has been an inspiration to many writers. Now the hard-drinking LA writer and a 100-year-old piano have sparked a clever work by Echo Park artist Euan MacDonald. It’s part of the collection at the Pitzer Art Galleries in Claremont.

A convicted child killer in California will begin to serve his life sentence in Indiana. Joseph Duncan will be on death row there for a string of killings.

Riverside's Martin Luther King High School marching band is headlining a benefit concert for the victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami. Proceeds will go to Riverside's longtime sister city - Sendai.