Month: June 2016

UPDATE 3:44 p.m. Crews have contained the fire. Two mobile homes and two vehicles were destroyed by the fire. One resident has been treated for minor burns. ———- UPDATE 3:22 p.m. One of the homeowners says she and her husband were in the house when the fire started. An air conditioning repair man was working

Sheila the kitten looking for her forever family. She’s a one-year-old medium hair who was found in Thousand Palms. Sheila is very calm and affectionate and would be perfect for any family. For more information click here.

Marcus Scribner is in the desert Saturday to host the Pacific Southwest Emmy Awards for The National Academy of Television at the Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort and Spa. At 16 years old, he’s the youngest person ever to host the awards. Scribner plays Andre Jr. on the hit ABC show “Black-ish”, starring alongside Anthony

Francoise Rhodes travels 26 miles across the sea to Santa Catalina. She brought a group of 27 people to enjoy an island getaway. You can enjoy a variety of activities on the island including sightseeing tours, zip lining, fishing, snorkeling, shopping and so much more. To find out more information click here.

5:00 Update: A 3.1 quake has been reported in Borrego Springs, it hit at 4:42 p.m. The question of the day: Did you feel it? A rude awakening from a 5.2 earthquake followed by 8 aftershocks rocked the valley this morning just after 1 AM. KESQ News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2 brought you

The city of Coachella is celebrating some major upgrades coming to Veterans Memorial Park.Local veterans were on hand for a groundbreaking ceremony Friday along with city leaders and students.The park will be redesigned, with the addition of a POW flag and veterans’ amphitheater.A “Hero Walk” and “Supreme Sacrifice Monument” will feature the names and stories

A Cathedral City man who arranged to have sex with a 14-year-old boy pleaded guilty today to plotting the meeting and faces up to two years in prison. Balwinder Singh, 24, pleaded guilty to sending harmful matter to a minor. He had also been charged with contacting a minor with the intent to commit a

The hotels are booked. “398 of our rooms are sold out and I know there several thousand more in the market.” Martin Greenwood the General Manager of the Riviera said. “Busiest weekend we have had so far, completely full.” Josh Brown the Director of Operations at the Saguaro added. The guests are arriving. “This is

A rude awakening early Friday morning for many of us here in the Coachella Valley. A 5.2 earthquake hit just after 1:00 a.m. Friday, with at least eight aftershocks following the first tremor. The epicenter was 13 miles north-northwest of Borrego Springs in San Diego County, just 16 miles south-southwest of La Quinta. The quake

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents from the Indio Station assigned to the Highway 86 checkpoint arrested a woman suspected of drug smuggling on Friday. The incident occurred at about 9:00 a.m., when a 39-year-old woman approached the checkpoint driving a 1990 Honda Accord, agents said in the release. A Border Patrol detection K-9 alerted

El viernes se llev a cabo una ceremonia donde tambin se dio la primer palada para dar inicio al proyecto de mejoras. Estuvieron presente lderes citadinos del valle as como estatales, veteranos de guerra y estudiantes de nuestra regin. Segn la ciudad, la construccin ser solventada por becas e 1.2 millnes de dlares proveniente de

A Coachella Valley teacher who was injured by a student during a fight in 2012 was back in court Thursday; one week after a jury found the student accused of the crime not guilty. Last week a jury found Manuel Martinez Jr. not guilty of felony assault charges that stemmed from the fight at Summit

A strong and very shallow earthquake struck Friday morning in Anza Borrego Desert State Park near the Salton Sea the Geological Survey reported. The temblor struck at 1:04 a.m. at a depth of .6 miles with a magnitude of 5.2, according to a computer-generated report from the USGS. A quake of such strength is capable

With summer-like temperatures over the past couple of weeks some hikers are going up our local trails at night to beat the heat. Last Thursday a 41-year-old man was found dead on the Murray Peak Hiking Trail in Palm Springs. This Tuesday a 61-year-old man was found dead on the Bump and Grind Trail in

UPDATE 5:30 p.m. For about four decades, Dr. Philip Dreisbach has treated hundreds of patients as an oncologist. And throughout the years, he’s even helped those who thought they were at the end of the road. “Many of them have come to us with a preconceived notion that they’re going to be in terrible pain,

The search continues for an ‘at risk’ Pinyon Pines woman who has been missing since Tuesday. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department says that 71-year-old Josephene Youssef was last seen at her home on the 70300 block of Highway 74 in Pinyon Pines. She’s is 4’9″ tall, weighs about 165 pounds, has short gray hair and

Sara Thomas has battled fires for 15-years of her life for Riverside County, and now takes on the biggest flame of her career, stage-4 terminal cancer. “I love being a firefighter, it was everything. I worked hard, I worked 15-years to get to where I am at, and I am truly going to miss it.”

Elementos de la escuela Cahuilla Elementary estn trabajando muy de cerca con el Departamento de Salubridad del Condado de Riverside para ubicar a los compaeros de clases que posiblemente fueron expuestos a la enfermedad para que se realicen una prueba. El alumno, quien no ser identificao, ya recibio atencin mdica y se espera que se

A Palm Springs elementary school student has been diagnosed with active tuberculosis. Officials said the student attends Cahuilla Elementary School. Education officials are working with the Riverside County Department of Health to identify classmates who may have been exposed to the illness so they can get tested. The student, who will not be identified, has

More than 30 people with ties to two criminal street gangs were arrested Thursday and dozens of guns were seized, along with illegal drugs and other contraband, in a series of raids carried out in Corona and surrounding locations as part of a local and state operation to crack down onfirearms trafficking. “Today’s joint operation