Desert Trail

TWENTYNINE PALMS — A postal inspector is investigating how a Twentynine Palms man was mailed a rattlesnake in a package via the United States Postal Service.

JOSHUA TREE — The 22nd annual spring Joshua Tree Music Festival took place May 16-19, offering diverse live music experiences to feed the body, mind and soul — as well as workshops to uplift and inspire.

MORONGO BASIN — When their daughters’ volleyball club closed last year, neighbors Cassandra Martinez and Jennifer Stratton decided to start their own. One season later, the new club, Notorious D.I.G., is 11 girls strong heading into the champ…

Mil-Tree presented a one-act play about a warrior’s return home in “Tapestries of Transformation” May 4 in the Joshua Tree Retreat Center’s Sanctuary.

DESERT HOT SPRINGS — A Twentynine Palms was killed and a Yucca Valley man was hurt in a collision just before 2:30 a.m. Thursday, May 16, on Twentynine Palms Highway at North Indian Canyon Road.

TWENTYNINE PALMS — Twentynine Palms High School students simulated a drunk-driving accident and contemplated their own deaths as the Every Fifteen Minutes program returned to the school Thursday and Friday, May 2-3.

MORONGO BASIN — The weekend will bring wind and blowing dust, the National Weather Service announced Thursday.

TWENTYNINE PALMS — Twentynine Palms High School juniors and seniors took watched classmates simulate a drunk-driving accident as the Every Fifteen Minutes program returned to the school Thursday, May 2.

TWENTYNINE PALMS — Sophomore Anea Haynes won a Desert Valley League championship in the 400 meters and was one of seven Wildcat athletes to qualify for the postseason at the league finals held Thursday, April 25, at Twentynine Palms High School.

Gem and mineral show shines at Joshua Tree Lake

TWENTYNINE PALMS — A traffic accident and its aftermath led to school bus driver Benjamin Glaser’s selection as California Highway Patrol School Bus Driver of the Year for the southern region.

JOSHUA TREE — Making a trek from Kentucky all the way to the Hi-Desert, Bill Stark will release his first book at the Joshua Tree Music Festival May 16-19. His literary debut, “In Shadows Canyon Red: Our Haunted Cabin in the Red River Gorge,”…

JOSHUA TREE — S.E. Davis, this year’s Greenleaf scholar, may not remain a student at Copper Mountain College for long. The Yucca Valley High School senior has already many of the college credits they will need to move on to four-year university.

TWENTYNINE PALMS — Twentynine Palms High School’s track and field girls team beat Cathedral City 72-35 at the last home meet of the season Wednesday, April 17.

Students from Twentynine Palms High School shared dances from Polynesian, Filipino and Vietnamese cultures at the inaugural citywide International Fest Saturday, April 20, at Freedom Plaza.

MORONGO BASIN — Fires in Twentynine Palms, Wonder Valley and Yucca Valley kept county firefighters busy Sunday afternoon, according to Battalion Chief Donnie Viloria.

State: Population can’t survive at current numbers

TWENTYNINE PALMS — Sixth through eighth grade students will soon be given the chance to increase their knowledge of civic education and engagement through practical hands-on experience on a city-sponsored youth council.