Month: May 2016

“‘What are these things?’ ‘What are they doing?’ And some people come up with ‘Oh they’re cooling the desert’, ‘They’re water pumps’.” told Joey Etter, Senior Lead Technician with Iberdrola Renewables. Setting the record straight, the wind turbines are only powered by wind, there is not a motor inside, and the newer models are not

El lanzador mexicano Julio Uras se prepara para realizar su muy esperado debut en Grandes Ligas con los Dodgers de Los Angeles para el duelo del viernes en Nueva York ante los Mets. El zurdo de 19 aos tiene marca de 4-1 y efectividad de 1.10 en el equipo de categora Triple A de Oklahoma

One person died after being ejected during a rollover crash in Indio Thursday afternoon. The Riverside County Coroner’s Office hasn’t released the male victim’s identity yet. The crash occurred at 3:07 p.m. on Avenue 44, west of Dillon Road, according to April Newman with the Riverside County Fire Department. Authorities said the victim was driving

Robert Keith Bryan pleaded guilty last week to four felony counts of lewd acts on a child and four misdemeanor counts of molesting a child. Bryan taught fourth grade at Gerald Ford Elementary in Indian Wells. Bryan also ran the math club. Now one of the victims is in the process of suing Desert Sands

Stroke is the nation’s third leading cause of death, affecting nearly 700,000 people every year. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 45 seconds in this country. King Wilder of La Quinta recently survived a stroke. “I was doing some laundry and I was moving some clothing from the washer to the dryer and felt

Back in November, the Well in the Desert was evicted form their current location and now 7-months later they have a new home and couldn’t be more excited for the future “I could cry but I won’t– having this building is going to be one of the biggest things that can happen in that community.

Segn el Distrito Escolar de Morongo, unas imgenes en el anuario escolar de Yucca Valley High School estn provocando consternacin entre los padres de familia. Y es que muestran a unos de los alumnos portando lo que parecer ser unas armas. Uno de los alumnos, un varn, tiene en manos una pistola y una jven

5/26 Update: Eagle Canyon Partners announced Thursday that they will withdraw their application for the proposed housing development near Oswit Canyon in South Palm Springs. The decision came just three days after city officials and the Palm Springs Planning Commission visited the controversial ‘Eagle Canyon’ housing development site. Officials said the developer has listened to

Some people in the Coachella Valley aren’t too pleased to hear Roger Waters name on the Desert Trip lineup. Waters, founding member of Pink Floyd, hasn’t been quiet about his opinions regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is entirely wrong and completely unsustainable and must be reversed,” said Waters in a

In an exclusive interview with CBS Local 2 and KESQ, former District Attorney Paul Zellerbach says he is still wondering how his wife ended up in a trial for a crime she didn’t commit. “There are probably thousands of other people that have been accused of same crimes that are experiencing the same angst that

The end of the school year is just around the corner at Yucca Valley High School. While many students are walking away with their yearbooks, some parents say they’re concerned about a couple of pictures printed in the book. Morongo Unified School District officials said the photos appear in the Senior Superlatives section of this

With less than two weeks to go before the California primary, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been making his way all throughout the Southland. “It’s been great,” Sanders said. “We’re heading up and down the state. Our goal is to do literally dozens of rallies. Some will be very, very large. Some will be

They came from all around the Southland, to “feel the Bern” in the Coachella Valley. “I’m from here originally,” Dana Prieto said after attending Senator Bernie Sanders’ rally in Cathedral City Wednesday. “I lived in Huntington Beach down in Orange County, and I decided to come back to see the Bernie rally.” After traveling throughout

Twin sisters Madeline and Lilli Koch launched the waste-free lunch program this month to reduce the amount of trash their school sends to the landfill. “We looked at how much trash was going into the landfills and it was a lot,” Lilli Koch said. It’s part of the fifth-grade IB exhibition at Benjamin Franklin Elementary

Cathedral City Fire crews were called to the Cimarron Golf Course to battle a small blaze near one of the holes just before 5:00 Wednesday. But Fire officials tell us that this was not the first fire of the day reported on the course. Fire crews had to battle some windy conditions, but were able

A 19-year-old man who allegedly helped a friend carry out the fatal shooting of a Coachella woman on Interstate 10 pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and other felony charges in a potential death penalty case. Andrew Castro is charged with murder, attempted murder and shooting at an occupied vehicle in the death of 19-year-old

The Bomb Squad has determined the suspicious package found at a building near Palm Desert City Hall Wednesday morning was not an explosive, and there was no threat to the public. The building’s tenants include the Coachella Valley Association of Governments. The sheriff’s department was called to the 73700 block of Fred Waring Drive at

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took to the stage in Riverside on Tuesday to ask for California’s support.Several thousand people waited in line for hours, but only 750 people could crowd into the Johnson Family Practice Center at UC Riverside to see Clinton. “It’s such a pleasure to have her here,” said Jeanette Singh, of

A golf tournament will help a local firefighter, and mother of twin girls, who is battling stage 4 cancer. Sara Thomas was born and raised in Indio and is a firefighter working out of the Shadow Hills Station there. Last December, Thomas was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Firefighters are now putting together a special

Sen. Bernie Sanders continues his campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination with three rallies across the Southern California. Sanders held rallies in Anaheim, Riverside and San Bernardino where he continued to rally supporters before the June 7 California primary. Before the rally, KESQ and CBS Local 2’s Joe Galli had a one-on-one interview with