Riverside County reported a total of 856 new cases on Wednesday, the highest day-to-day increase in confirmed cases since the pandemic started. Today’s increase brought the total number of cases up to 21,957. Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari told the board of supervisors on Tuesday that the county’s positivity rate is at around 15.9%, nearly
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A deadly virus targeting domestic and wild rabbits that was detected in Palm Springs in May has now spread to San Bernardino, Orange and San Diego counties, state wildlife officials confirmed. Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHDV2) is not related to the novel coronavirus and does not affect humans or domestic animals other than rabbits. “A dead
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The next season of the hit ABC series, “The Bachelorette” may be filmed in the Coachella Valley. The next season of the Bachelorette is rumored to be filming exclusively at the La Quinta Resort & Club. Steve Carbone, aka Reality Steve, a blogger focused on the Bachelor/Bachelorette, first reported on June 26 that the show
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A man on death row for fatally stabbing a black transient in a racially motivated attack near a Palm Springs restaurant has died from what state officials said today appear to be complications of the coronavirus, which has infected about one-third of San Quentin prison inmates. David John Reed, 60, died Tuesday at an outside
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One person has been reportedly shot in Desert Hot Springs late Wednesday morning. According to Desert Hot Springs Police Chief Jim Henson, they got a call around 11:20 a.m. of a possible gunshot victim. They arrived to the area of the 68-100 block of Calle Las Tiendas and found one person suffering from a gunshot,
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Governor Gavin Newsom is delivering an update at noon Wednesday on the state of California’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Watch it live on News Channel 3 and here when he begins to speak: During a news conference ahead of the July 4 holiday weekend, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state is ordering the
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Finding your special someone is not always easy especially now during the coronavirus pandemic. News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay spoke to a local dating expert on ways to navigate dating in a pandemic. “One of my favorite quotes is, ‘You don’t have to see the whole staircase to take the first step,’ that’s a quote
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If you have been having issues at a local Bank of America, you’re not alone. Bank of America has closed some of its locations temporarily. Many residents have reached out to News Channel 3 about this concern along with the trouble of using the ATM machines. Danny Nelson is one Bank of America customer we
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Riverside County public health officials say 75 percent of people who test positive for coronavirus in the county are unwilling or unable to share information with county contact tracers about people they’ve had contact with outside their homes. “The way we get through this is with containing the disease and a key point of that
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Highs today will be about a cool as we’ll see all week long, topping out near 108 as high pressure has retreated to the East a bit. With that, air quality has hovered in the “Moderate” range, and will do so through tomorrow into Friday. That area of high pressure will retrograde back toward Southern
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Members of the national coronavirus task force are expected to hold a briefing Wednesday morning to detail the latest updates on the federal response to the outbreak. It’s expected to start at 8:30 a.m. PT. Watch it live here when it starts : Vice President Mike Pence is expected to lead the briefing. In California,
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Police said a bicyclist was struck and killed in Desert Hot Springs Wednesday morning by a hit-and-run driver. Police and medics were called to Two Bunch Palms Trail and Cholla Drive at 5:40 a.m. They found a 43-year-old man on a bike who had been struck by a vehicle and was pronounced dead at the
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Kim Saruwatari, director de Salud Pública del Condado de Riverside, dijo a la Junta de Supervisores el martes que los rastreadores de contacto han estado teniendo problemas para obtener información de los residentes. Los rastreadores de contacto se utilizan para determinar con quién puede haber estado en contacto el paciente. Esta información es vital para
Continue Reading Kim Saruwatari explains contact tracing from RUHS Public Health on Vimeo. Riverside County health officials are putting the word out and asking people who have tested positive for coronavirus to provide critically needed information when they are contacted by contact tracers. Kim Saruwatari, director of Riverside County Public Health, told the Board of Supervisors on
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Esta Tarde: Soleado y calor, la máxima alrededor de 110. Viento del sur de 5 a 10 mph y luego llegará del oeste. Esta Noche: Despejado, la mínima alrededor de 78. Viento del noroeste entre 10 y 15 mph, con ráfagas de hasta 25 mph. Miércoles: Soleado y calor, la máxima alrededor de 110. Viento
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La oficina de Inmigración y Aduanas de los Estados Unidos, dio a conocer esta semana que los estudiantes extranjeros que buscan títulos universitarios en el país tendrán que asistir a clases presenciales o de deben abandonar los estados unidos. “Primeramente fue un shock muy grande, me parece impactante,” dijo Paola Alemán. Alemán fue una estudiante
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Riverside County supervisors today authorized the county’s Department of Housing, Homelessness Prevention & Workforce Solutions to utilize $15.8 million in federal grants for emergency shelter programs, while other federal funds are being distributed to prevent financially strapped renters from becoming homeless. “Some of the money will help shelter operators,” agency spokeswoman Heidi Marshall told the
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