RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (KESQ) – April is Alcohol Awareness Month, a time to shine light on alcohol use and misuse. Researchers say that each year there are more than 178,000 alcohol-related deaths, making alcohol a leading preventable cause of death here in the US. News Channel 3’s Peter Daut spoke with the director of operations
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A Riverside County judge granted an expedited briefing schedule in Attorney General Rob Bonta’s lawsuit against Sheriff Chad Bianco over his department’s possession of ballots from the November 2025 Proposition 50 special election, setting an April 13 hearing on the merits.
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – With the Coachella Music and Arts Festival less than a week away, Indio Police are getting their security measures ready. Next week’s festival is the first time in years Coachella has sold out, and officials are bracing for nearly 250,000 visitors to descend on the area. Tonight, News Channel 3 is
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Temalpakh Farm partnered with the “Rooted Relatives” program through Riverside and San Bernardino County Indian Health to host a community event celebrating Indigenous food and traditions. Held at the farm’s education center, the event featured meals made with organic, Native ingredients along with hands-on activities like leather pouch making, seed bombs, and sand art. Students
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COACHELLA, Calif. (KESQ) – Coachella is set to discuss the next steps to fill its vacant mayor position next week. The topic is on the agenda list for Wednesday’s city council meeting, which starts at 5:00 p.m. According to the staff report, the council can either appoint someone to the position within the 60-day period,
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By Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand, Jim Sciutto, Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — Roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by US and Israeli strikes against military targets over the past five weeks, according to recent US intelligence assessments, three
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The founder of the Conversion Therapy Survivors Network has expressed disappointment at the Supreme Court’s decision to side against Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, but has urged the community not to give up hope and to continue fighting for survivors.
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – The Palm Springs Plaza Theatre has reached a milestone of hosting 120 events in its first four months since reopening in December 2025, officials announced today. “Achieving the Plaza Theatre’s goal of 120 events a year in just four months is truly phenomenal,” Greg O’Dell, president at Oak View Group,
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – Easter is this weekend, and we’ve compiled a list of events throughout the Coachella Valley. If you have an event we’re missing, send information over to our email: share@kesq.com Saturday Events: Desert Recreation District Arbor Day Tree Planting Event and Indio Eggstravaganza Egg Hunt Desert Recreation District invites the community
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By Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — One day after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, the world’s largest group of police chiefs urged the White House to organize a sit-down with federal, state and local law enforcement leaders to better coordinate immigration enforcement and ensure community safety. While the White
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By Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday fired the US Army chief of staff and two other generals as the Iran war continues. Hegseth told US Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to retire immediately, a Pentagon official told CNN. He also fired two other Army generals
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – The Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians has awarded a $20,000 grant to a nonprofit aimed at making sports more accessible for youth and families in the Coachella Valley, it was announced today. “We are incredibly grateful to the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians for believing in our mission and investing
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Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Democrats compared President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to overhaul elections to George Orwell’s “1984,” in one of three lawsuits now challenging Tuesday’s executive order, which instructs the US Postal Service to determine who does and doesn’t receive a mail ballot. Democratic congressional leaders and organizations, as well as two
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) — A driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after crashing into a utility pole early Thursday in Indio, authorities said. Officers with the Indio Police Department responded around 5:35 a.m. to a vehicle crash on Avenue 42, west of Golf Center Parkway. Police said a 57-year-old man driving
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A Covina married couple — a psychologist and a registered nurse — were among 15 defendants facing federal charges today in Los Angeles as part of a crackdown on health care fraud schemes such as sham hospice facilities that pay people without terminal illnesses to pose as dying Medicare beneficiaries.
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By Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi as attorney general. She will be replaced for now by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who will serve as acting attorney general, Trump said. The president wrote on Truth Social that Bondi would be “transitioning to a much
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – To celebrate the season three premiere of “Euphoria,” attendees will have the opportunity to watch the episode during a late-night screening at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio. The screening will take place at about 11:59 p.m. April 12 at the Coachella campgrounds. View this post on
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – A Coachella Valley Unified School District bus driver accused of molesting an elementary school student pleaded not guilty today to lewd acts on a child under 14 years old. Eric Ochoa Hernandez, 47, of Thermal, was arrested in February following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation at Oasis Elementary School on
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By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has repeatedly sought to tamp down the surging price of oil by telling investors what they’re eager to hear: The war in Iran is almost over. But after hearing that message for weeks, with fighting ongoing and no plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, they’re
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