PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – The four-day Greater Palm Springs Pride Festival will begin Thursday, with music, entertainment and other festivities planned throughout the weekend. Â Â The 14th annual event will start with Dia de la Reina, a block party “celebrating the kings and queens of Palm Springs with food, music and entertainment,” officials said.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – Activist Shane Harris was joined today by family members of the late Bill Walton to announce twin proposals to rename a street in San Diego and a memorial area in La Mesa after the basketball legend. Â Â Hall of Famer Walton, the greatest basketball player San Diego produced, died in
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – The Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce announced today that artist couple Karen and Tony Barone will be honored with the 482nd star on the Walk of the Stars next week at the downtown park. Â Â The Barones will receive the star in the category of artist/architect/designer at 3:30 p.m. on
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – Pretrial motions got underway today ahead of jury selection for the trial of an ex-Riverside County sheriff’s deputy accused of harassing and abducting a woman, as well as possessing child pornography. Â Â Alexander Ravy Vanny, 34, of Hemet was arrested last year following an investigation by the sheriff’s department’s Special Victims
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – The Imperial Irrigation District, in collaboration with the Coachella Valley Association of Governments, has been awarded a $2.9 million grant to plant 6,000 shade trees across the Imperial and Coachella valleys for improved air quality and community resilience, officials announced today. Â Â The Shade Trees for Southern California’s Deserts initiative
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Just days after a pest control company branded Los Angeles the nation’s “rattiest” major city, health officials delivered another blow this morning, announcing 61 rabid bats had been found so far in 2025, the second-highest total ever recorded in the county. The total is the most since 2021, when 68 rabid
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A Riverside County woman who was convicted of second-degree murder for injecting silicone oil into a woman’s buttocks just over a year after being found guilty of a lesser charge stemming from another woman’s death under similar circumstances was sentenced in Los Angeles today to 15 years to life in prison.
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A registered sex offender accused of pimping out a teenager for call girl services in the Riverside metropolitan area and elsewhere posted her pictures and other information via internet classified advertisements, arranging for her to meet men near a mall and other places, according to court documents obtained Tuesday. Â Â Deirdrick
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella Valley Firebirds’ third annual Season of Giving Canned Food Drive will get underway today. Â Â The drive will begin during the Firebirds’ game against the Colorado Eagles, which begins at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Acrisure Arena, 75702 Varner Road, and it will conclude on Dec. 19. The team,
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – A tribute band concert series will return for its fifth season every first Wednesday of the month starting in December, the Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce announced today. Â Â The family-friendly and free “Rock the Park” concert series will take place at 7 p.m. in the city’s Downtown Park. Â Â
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – To showcase the newly-restored Plaza Theatre before the first slate of shows begin in December, a community open house and block party will be held Nov. 22 to celebrate the reopening. Â Â The open house will run from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. and feature tours highlighting aspects of the
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – One day after California voters approved Proposition 50, redrawing the state’s congressional district lines to boost Democratic representation in Washington, state Republicans filed a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles today challenging the constitutionality of the measure. Assemblyman David Tangipa, R-Fresno, the California Republican Party, and 18 district voters brought the lawsuit,
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – Air quality regulators will host a summit in Palm Desert this week to discuss the health impacts and environmental factors of dust. The event, hosted by the South Coast Air Quality Management District in partnership with Riverside County Supervisor V. Manuel Perez, will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday at
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LA QUINTA, Calif. (KESQ) – A community celebration will be held Saturday to mark the $15 million revitalization of Lake Cahuilla Veterans Regional Park in La Quinta, it was announced Monday. The free, family-friendly event will begin with a catfish derby at 8 a.m. at 58075 Jefferson Street, following a 6 a.m. gate opening, according
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – The Board of Supervisors tomorrow is slated to approve the Riverside County Office of Agriculture Commissioner’s proposed contract with the state to monitor programs intended to ensure containment of any pink bollworm threats to cotton crops countywide. The office has entered into agreements with the California Department of Food & Agriculture
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A big blue mass of joyous Dodger fans lined the streets of downtown Los Angeles today to celebrate the team’s World Series victory, filling the parade route with confetti and screams of appreciation.  More than 200,000 people attended last year’s World Series parade, and officials said even more were expected this
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Bonsall, and fellow Republican Congressman Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, have filed a lawsuit challenging California’s efforts to redraw its congressional maps. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Northern District of Texas alleges Proposition 50, which goes before California voters in a special election on Tuesday, is unconstitutional and
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays are heading to a winner-take-all Game 7 of the World Series on Saturday. The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays 3-1 in dramatic fashion Friday in Game 6. It all came down to a shock double play at the bottom of the 9th. KIKÉ,
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Businessman Mark Walter — who already owns part of the Dodgers, Sparks and Chelsea Football Club — has finalized a $10 billion purchase of the Lakers, the team announced today following unanimous approval of the deal by the NBA Board of Governors. “The Los Angeles Lakers are one of the most
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RIVERSIDE (KESQ) – Pretrial motions are slated to begin Monday ahead of jury selection for the trial of three convicted felons accused of gunning down a 24-year-old man after carjacking him and his girlfriend in Riverside. Â Â Trezell Lamone Heckard, 30, of Vallejo, Qevon Xavier Harvey, 27, of Desert Hot Springs and Anthony Antoine Wright,
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