California’s Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act is forcing Morongo Basin residents to pay thousands in state mitigation fees for connecting their homes to the sewer or building a fence, but a three-bill package from Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh (R-Yucaipa) aims to ease the burden.
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CALIMESA, Calif. (KESQ) – A family is suing Riverside County after a Sheriff’s deputy blew through a red light at nearly 100 miles per hour, killing a 21-year-old man and critically injuring his fiancée several months ago, Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP announced. The family of Gavin Hinkley and his fiancée, Madeline Fox, filed
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (KESQ) One day after KESQ News Channel 3 reported Palm Valley School was facing a severe financial crisis, the Coachella Valley’s only non-religious college-prep private school says it will stay open thanks to an anonymous donor. Board Chair Dr. Sarah Dunn confirmed to KESQ Thursday that an unnamed family has stepped forward
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) Hopefully you were able to enjoy the cooler temperatures we’ve had today, because a warm is in store for the Coachella Valley as we head into Mother’s Day weekend. High temps today landed in very comfortable range, upper 70s and low 80s. Expect breezy conditions overnight, with low temperatures landing in
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) Expect mostly sunny skies and warmer temps to cap off our week with high temps landing about 5-7 degrees above seasonal norms this afternoon in the mid 90s. For Saturday, our warming trend continues, and you can expect more sunshine with highs landing above once again in the mid 90s. By
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) Expect warmer and slightly breezy conditions to kick off our morning in the Coachella Valley. We’re in the midst a warming trend going into the weekend and you can expect high temperatures today to land close to 5 degrees above average with our afternoon highs in the mid 90s. It’ll be
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) It’ll be another gorgeous day in the Coachella Valley with plenty of sunshine and slightly breeze conditions picking up this afternoon. Current temperatures this morning are in the 60s for most of the valley, and we should warm up nicely with highs close to seasonal averages near the 90 degree mark
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Howard Berkowitz is facing allegations of overcrowding and improper husbandry after Riverside County Department of Animal Services accepted the voluntary relinquishment of nearly 500 ducks from his Anza property, as well as a dispute with the Yang family over a property deal gone wrong.
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The founder of The Duck Sanctuary in Riverside County, Howard Berkowitz, has shut down his operation after being overwhelmed, while denying he is an animal hoarder, and animal rescue advocate Sascha Knopf has been fighting for two years to draw attention to the conditions at his properties.
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Kenny Wu was sentenced to two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of his wife and another man outside a Palm Desert hotel in 2022, after a jury found evidence of stalking, domestic violence, and infidelity leading to the fatal confrontation.
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The Indio City Council will vote on Wednesday to approve a $500,000 budget for a veterans memorial project at Miles Avenue Park, featuring seven pillars representing the seven branches of the U.S. Armed Forces and an ADA-compliant walkway.
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – Riverside County will not be picking up the tab in the legal battle over Sheriff Chad Bianco’s ballot investigation. The Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday to decline to hire or pay outside counsel to defend Bianco in four lawsuits tied to his ballot seizure investigation. A county spokesperson confirmed
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) California Congressman Eric Swalwell announced Monday he plans to resign from the U.S. House of Representatives, capping a rapid political collapse triggered by sexual assault and misconduct allegations from multiple women.= Swalwell, a Democrat who represents California’s 14th Congressional District east of San Francisco, posted a statement on X saying he
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El Centro, Calif. (KESQ)braham Feinbloom, the 51-year-old Salton City man charged with murdering 17-year-old T’Neya Tovar, appeared in Imperial County Superior Court Monday morning, where a judge set his preliminary hearing for April 28. The hearing will determine whether prosecutors can present enough evidence to establish probable cause and hold Feinbloom for trial. It was
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KESQ) Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, suspended his campaign for California governor Sunday night following sexual assault and misconduct allegations from multiple women, including a former congressional staffer. “I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past,” Swalwell wrote on X. “I will fight the serious, false allegations that have
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) The four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Friday evening, completing the first crewed journey to the moon in more than half a century. The Orion capsule, named Integrity by its crew, touched down at 5:07 p.m.
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco have jointly asked a Riverside Superior Court judge to freeze all proceedings in their legal battle over hundreds of thousands of seized election ballots, according to a stipulation filed Friday. The agreement, signed by attorneys for both sides, asks Judge O.G.
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SALTON CITY, Calif. (KESQ) Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the creation of the Salton Sea Conservancy on Friday, marking the state’s first new conservancy in more than 15 years and a step the governor called a turning point for communities that have long borne the health and environmental consequences of the shrinking lake. “For too long,
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – Coachella Valley Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz made the case that the sky above 125-thousand festival goers is not fully protected. He is now pushing a federal bill that would restrict aircraft over large outdoor concerts. This isn’t the first time this bill has been introduced, but it comes after a plane towing a banner crashed last
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Cloud cover helped give us some relief with our temperatures this afternoon, but we will were still well above average with our high temperatures landing in the lower 90s. Temps will cool into the 70s and 60s overnight, and it will be slightly breezy. Our high temperatures will be 10-20 above normal for Tuesday, but
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