Month: August 2019

Endangered peninsular desert bighorn sheep are known to migrate down from the mountains, many times seen in neighborhoods and on golf courses around the city of La Quinta. In an effort to keep the species safe and in the appropriate habitat, fencing along SilverRock Resort was installed two years ago, but sheep can still find

Cal Fire / Riverside County firefighters are battling a fire burning in Thermal Thursday afternoon. A Cal Fire spokesperson told News Channel 3 the fire was reported just after 3:40 p.m. near Avenue 62 and Harrison Street. Viewers have reported seeing a large plume of smoke in the area. The fire has burned 1/2 an

A former Twentynine Palms Marine has been convicted for the murder of two women in the High Desert in 2017. 24-year-old Rafael Ari Aikens was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the killings of 62-year-old Renee Metcalf and 32-year-old Christy McKissic. Aikens fatally shot McKissic and Metcalf on March 24, 2017, and

A convicted sex offender who drove around Banning and Beaumont flashing women walking on the street over a 10-month span was sentenced today to two years in jail. Silas Matthew Brown, 25, of Banning pleaded guilty earlier this month to four counts of misdemeanor indecent exposure. Brown’s plea was directly to Riverside County Superior Court

An odor advisory that was issued for the Coachella Valley earlier this week due to elevated levels of hydrogen sulfide wafting up from the Salton Sea — creating a smell similar to rotten eggs — is set to expire this evening. The South Coast Air Quality Management District first issued the advisory Sunday after detecting

More information has been released Wednesday about a Palm Springs drowning on Tuesday afternoon. The drowning was reported on the 900 block of E Marion Way, near S Joshua Tree Place, shortly before 4:20 p.m. According to the Riverside County Coroner’s Bureau, an 82-year-old Palm Springs man died by drowning in his backyard pool. The

Students attending public schools in the Coachella Valley will be back in class Thursday, the first day of school for the Desert Sands Unified School District. DSUSD has 20 elementary schools, seven middle schools, and four high schools. It serves over 28 thousand students in the Coachella Valley spanning the areas of Indio, La Quinta,

A dog survived a brutal attack by a pair of coyotes Wednesday morning in a Palm Springs neighborhood. Michael Lazzari said the attack happened when he took his dog, Eddie, out for their daily 2.5-mile walk at the Canyon Vista Estates on Madrona Road. During their walk, two young coyotes came out of the trees.

A driver was detained after their car drove into a mobile home park in Palm Desert. The car drove into a sign at the Indian Springs Mobile Home Park. According to Deputy Mike Vasquez of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, the crash was reported at 4 p.m. Vasquez said the car crashed through a gate

Daniel Coover looked over all the paperwork he has ben dealing with, after he says nine of his bills, with checks, were stolen from an outdoor mailbox he used at the post office in Desert Hot Springs, Friday morning, July 26th. “I hope they find whoever did this,” said Coover. Coover says he reached his

With an excessive heat warning and odor advisory in place this week, News Channel 3 looks into how local schools are taking extra precaution with their students in these conditions. You can’t see it, but you can smell it. With a mixture of odor and heat we asked one mother of two students at Saul

A Desert Hot Springs hotel is back open, one day after a fire sparked in the hotel’s storage room. According to Cal Fire, the fire was reported at 6:15 p.m. at the Desert Hot Springs Spa Hotel, located at 10805 Palm Drive. The fire was initially believed to have been confined to the room but

El martes se llev a cabo una vigilia por la paz en el Indio Fashion Mall, donde los activistas se manifestaron en contra de una serie de cuestiones, como la violencia armada, el racismo y el odio. Unas 100 personas llevaban carteles y escuchaban discursos que pedan cambio y paz. “Somos estadounidenses. Somos inmigrantes. Y

A trial is scheduled to start Wednesday for a man accused of trying to kill two people by setting fire to homes at a Desert Hot Springs mobile home park in 2016. Michael Eric McPeters, 45, is charged with two counts of attempted murder, three counts of arson of an inhabited property and one count

Al menos una persona muri despus de ahogarse en Palm Springs el martes por la tarde. El ahogamiento se inform en la cuadra 900 de E Marion Way, cerca de S Joshua Tree Place, poco antes de las 4:20 p.m. Segn el sargento del PSPD Mike Casavan, en este momento, la polica cree que el

A man accused of threatening people with a knife then fighting with Palm Springs Police Department officers before being shot by police appeared in court in Indio on Wednesday. According to a criminal complaint, 43-year-old Kevyn Weintraub was charged with assault on an officer with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury, battery on an

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 struck near Cabazon, but no damage was reported this morning. The quake struck at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday about seven miles north northeast of Cabazon and about 14 miles east northeast of Beaumont at a depth of about 10 miles, according to a computer-generated message from the U.S.

Police have released the identity of the man found dead overnight in Cathedral City, the second homicide in the city within the same 24 hour period. According to the Cathedral City Police Department, 21-year-old Alberto Rafael Sosa Alvarez was found with an undetermined number of gunshots wounds Monday at approximately 12:52 a.m. on 68000 block