About 50 people gathered at the Palm Springs Police Department Friday morning. They marched from the station to city hall while holding signs that read, “Blue Lives Matter,” “Police Lives Matter,” “Respect. Black Lives Matter. Respect,” and more. One organizer told News Channel 3 said she was showing her support, “because they’ve been used and
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Essential workers can now pick up free masks, gloves and bottles of hand sanitizer at various locations in Coachella that were donated by a local pharmacy, it was announced on Friday. La Botica HealthMart Pharmacy in Coachella donated the supplies with the aim of curbing the spread of COVID-19, particularly in the eastern Coachella Valley,
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A group of organizers called “BLM Coachella Valley” is planning a peaceful march this Sunday in Palm Springs. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., beginning at Ruth Hardy Park and marching toward Downtown Palm Springs, ending at Civic Park in Palm Desert. This is another local demonstration following the death of George
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Gov. Gavin Newsom gave the green light for schools, day camps, bars, gyms and professional sports could all reopen with modifications on Friday, June 12. Shamrock Irish Pub in Palm Springs already back to the swing of things. “Oh my god, its so exciting to welcome everybody back and see people and get all the
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Winds will start to kick-up this afternoon as a front passes through. There are wind advisories and high wind warnings to our North, but the Coachella Valley is not presently under either of those. The front will usher in some cooler daytime highs for today and the weekend, accompanied by a modest Marine Layer to
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A Palm Desert intersection reopened to traffic early Friday morning after a collision that left a pedestrian dead. Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to the intersection of Monterey Avenue and Hovley Lane shortly before 10:00 p.m. Deputies said the injured person was dead when they arrived. The person was later officially identified as Sanford
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A local date farmer and a local restaurant owner have teamed up to deliver fresh, locally grown produce to your door. It’s all part of a new company called Coachella Valley Harvest Box. It started when Mark Tadros of Aziz Date Farm and Tony Marchese of Trio restaurant and AC3 restaurant + bar started talking
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Palm Springs city council Thursday night called for a reconciliation of its past, saying the city must acknowledge and address historical racist policies, and work to end ongoing discrimination. “The city has had racist policies that impact the community to this day,” said Christy Holstege, the city’s mayor pro tem. “It is long past time,”
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El grupo de tácticas especial en tareas contra el Tráfico Humano del Condado de Riverside arrestó a dos mujeres acusadas de prostitución y de mantener un burdel en Palm Springs. Si Liang, de 57 años, y Ying Zhou, de 57, ambos de Desert Hot Springs, fueron arrestadas el miércoles por la tarde en la cuadra
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Jimmy Williams Jr., de 44 de años y residentes de Desert Hot Springs fue arrestado el miércoles por su presunto robo en una tienda de armas en un área no incorporada de Palm Desert. El robo ocurrió el 23 de mayo. El video de vigilancia capturó el alcance del ladrón en una vitrina de arma.
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Richard Felix Garcia (Courtesy of the Palm Springs Police Department) An alleged carjacking outside the Amtrak Station in Palm Springs spurred a multi-city police chase and the arrest of a 25-year-old felon from Banning who remains in jail today on $100,000 bail. Richard Felix Garcia was arrested in Redlands about noon Wednesday on suspicion of
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If you’ve gone out for a bite in the past couple of weeks in the Coachella Valley, you know that most restaurants are spacing diners out and requiring facial masks. But one spot in La Quinta is taking it a step further to keep diners’ minds at ease. New Channel 3 morning anchor Angela Chen
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The Coachella Valley Public Cemetery District board voted 3-2 Tuesday to get rid of a fund that they established last month to help families struggling with the financial burden of burying a loved one during the pandemic. News Channel 3’s Madison Weil first brought you this story last month when the cemetery’s district board initially
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Lifestream blood donation will be tested for the COVID-19 antibody at all Blood Bank donor centers and mobile drives effective immediately. The test identifies those who possibly had or have been exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19 in the past. The test is performed on donor blood, it is not a nasal swab. Results
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la compañía matriz de los festivales de música Coachella y Stagecoach, emitió un comunicado sobre la cancelación de dichos festivales de 2020 y planes para el regreso de 2021. El miércoles, funcionarios del condado de Riverside anunciaron que el Oficial de Salud Pública, Dr. Cameron Kaiser, firmó una orden cancelando los festivales por la preocupación
Continue Reading Jimmy Williams Jr., 44 of Desert Hot Springs was arrested on Wednesday for his suspected role in a burglary at a gun store in an unincorporated area of Palm Desert. The theft occurred back on May 23. Surveillance video captured the thief reach into a gun display case that was inadvertently left slightly open and
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The new Riverside County jail in Indio, the John J. Benoit Detention Center, will be an intake facility only for the time being. The $330 million project with space for 1,600 inmates is now complete nearly two-and-a-half years behind schedule but the sheriff says he doesn’t have the money to operate it in the face
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