Palm Springs has been downgraded from a “very high” to a “moderate” fire hazard severity zone in newly released maps from the ...

Cities with first-time fire zone designations include Santa Monica, La Cañada-Flintridge, South Pasadena, Alhambra, ...

Five cities that had very-high fire zones in the 2011 map — Covina, Irwindale, Cathedral City, Desert Hot Springs, Palm Desert and Yucca Valley — had no very-high zones in the update.

Weekend 1 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio packed even more of a punch than we expected, and now thousands of more people are headed to the California desert for Weekend 2.