The city of Coachella’s emerging strategy for expanding power capacity is not a single plan. It is two. On one track, city leaders are moving ahead with a limited municipal electric utility in the city’s eastern areas, where development is sparse, and major...
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Cathedral City Festival of the Arts Bolsters City’s Emphasis on the Creative Economy
Cathedral City’s first Festival of the Arts was not just a pleasant day of artist booths, music and family activity at the community amphitheater. It was also a test of whether the city can turn its long-running “where art lives” identity into something more...
Indian Wells Channel Lining Funding Facilitates Development Opportunities
The city of Indian Wells is treating a long-discussed flood-control project as a critical step in determining whether one of the city’s last major undeveloped corridors can finally move forward. At the center of that effort is the Whitewater Channel Lining...
Salton Sea Authority Adopts Strategic Plan, Then Votes to Reshuffle Leadership as IID Departure Looms
The Salton Sea Authority (SSA/Authority), at its March 19 board of directors meeting, adopted a new five-year strategic plan intended, among other important strategies, to reposition the agency as a stronger governing force in the increasingly complex effort to...
Modernism Week’s $62 Million Impact in 2026 Underscores Its Role as a Major Desert Economic Driver
Modernism Week has long been celebrated as a cultural showcase of midcentury design, but its latest results make clear that the event has evolved into something far more consequential: a major economic driver and brand engine for the Greater Palm Springs...




