The Desert Sun is a local daily newspaper serving Palm Springs and the surrounding Coachella Valley in Southern California.

Its circulation to date is 50,000 and their distribution range is in regional communities from Beaumont to Twentynine Palms to the Salton Sea.

On March 1, 2024, the paper's newsroom union went on strike to protest what it called bad faith bargaining from Gannet.

The Indio Daily News was acquired in 1990 and merged with The Desert Sun to become the sole local newspaper.

In the 2010s, the Sun published a Spanish-Language weekly El Sol Desierto based in Coachella, California for its Hispanic/Latino readers.