California hair salons and barbershops can resume indoor operations Monday, Aug. 31 under a new four-tier system unveiled Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Customers and business owners said they are happy to be back in business. Hair salons like Salon 119 in Palm Springs are back to the swing of things. “I feel crazy, I
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The campus at Palm Desert High School is relatively quiet while students continue to learn from home. But, in some classes, disruptions are happening according to an online letter Principal Dennis Zink emailed to parents Sunday. He wrote about “Zoom intrusions”, or instances when people are accessing the school’s online classes who aren’t students at
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Monsoon moisture streaming up from the Southeast will push into SoCal today, enhancing the chance of pop-up storms later. Dew points will be in the fifties and sixties this afternoon, before a drying trend kicks in later this evening. Expect partly cloudy skies, and a small potential for storms until later this evening. We hold
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A 16-year-old was hospitalized early Monday morning after an overnight shooting in Coachella. Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to the area of Avenida de Plata near Avenue 50 at 10:30 p.m. Sunday to reports of a shooting. They said they found evidence of a shooting there, but no victims or any suspects. Deputies later
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It’s been a very hot year, with many above average days. Just this past week, we were dealing with record-breaking heat in the Coachella Valley. Today temperatures were much more seasonal. That trend will continue into the start of the week. Monsoonal moisture returns Monday, with afternoon thunderstorms possible in the mountains and high desert.
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Throughout California hair salons and barbershops have been gearing up to offer indoor services once again. “I have a lot of clients that have been loyal for years and they text me, they reached out to me on social media and said, ‘When are you going to reopen? I’m a shaggy dog and I need
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Despite a malware event that brought down the email and web services at College of the Desert (COD), classes will start as planned on Monday, August 31. According to Marion Champion with College of the Desert, students can access their classes and communicate with their instructors using Canvas, the College’s online learning management system. Students can
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Martha’s Village and Kitchen in Indio is in need of donations from the community. This weekend people have the opportunity to help “Stuff the Bus” full of essentials at the Westfield Mall. News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay was out at the “Stuff the Bus” event and tells us what items they’re still in need of
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Two men were killed early Sunday morning in a collision on North Indian Canyon Drive just north of 18th Avenue. The Riverside County Coroners Office identified the two as Raul Martin, 24, and Emiaj Lane, 22, both of Desert Hot Springs. The head-on collision reportedly occurred at 1:08 a.m. Sunday and the Coroners office said
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Update Sunday 8:40 a.m.: Three people have been arrested. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, it’s uncertain as to whether or not there was an intended target in this shooting; however, several vehicles were struck by gunfire. Deputies tell News Channel 3 a handgun was found inside a vehicle within reach of an infant
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The cause of an overnight fire in Palm Springs is under investigation. Officials with CAL Fire say a one-story building was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived on the scene early Sunday morning. Someone driving by on Highway 111 just south of Off-Road Rentals reported the fire. Officials say light winds moved the fire
Continue Reading Palm Springs reached 110° Saturday. This is still cooler relative to the past week. We have now seen 61 days in a row of triple digit temperatures. This year, we have recorded 55 days of temperatures at 110° and above. A weak trough of low pressure along the California coast is keeping temperatures lower this
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INDIO, Calif. — One person has died following a shooting early Saturday morning in a residential area, Indio Police confirmed. It happened on Sundial Street near Solano Avenue in Indio. On Saturday morning investigators blocked off one portion of Sundial Street with crime scene tape as they investigated the scene. “At about 1:58 this morning
Continue Reading Temperatures have been hot all this past week and really all this past month! Palm Springs Airport has recorded 25 days above average, 2 days below average, and just 1 day reaching the average for the day. We even recorded 4 days breaking/tying record high temperatures. There will be some significant cooling this weekend compared
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DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif.- Cal Fire firefighters responded to a house fire call on the 13000 block of Caliente Drive in Desert Hot Springs at 9:56 P.M. Friday night. The fire was contained at 10:22 P.M. Southern California Edison and SoCal Gas were requested to the scene indicating possible outages in the area. A Cal
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New guidelines are in place for California counties to move toward reopening. They’re designed to make the process more gradual than it was back in May. Jack Srebnik, owner of The Slice Pizzeria in Rancho Mirage, said he was expecting news Friday about reopening indoor dining, but the restrictions in Riverside County weren’t lifted under
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, died Friday of cancer, his representative said. He was 43. pic.twitter.com/aZ2JzDf5ai— Chadwick Boseman (@chadwickboseman) August 29, 2020 Boseman died at his home in the Los Angeles
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Muchos buscan una segunda oportunidad en la vida y muy pocos la alcanzan. Sergio Muñoz mira hacia un futuro que un día parecía muy lejano. En un par de días, Sergio se convertirá en el primero de su familia en asistir al colegio. “Me siento muy feliz, muy orgulloso de poder tener esta oportunidad que
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – On Friday Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a new color-coded tier system that will determine how counties move forward in their reopening process. Categories begin with the top purple tier, indicating ‘widespread’ county risk level. The next level is red and ‘substantial,’ followed by orange and ‘moderate,’ and lastly yellow and ‘minimal.’ The
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