The Board of Supervisors today will consider any last-minute appropriations requests in its final scheduled public hearing for the $7.45 billion 2022-23 fiscal year budget. “Fiscal pressures are mounting, and we don’t know what the future holds for us,” county CEO Jeff Van Wagenen said Monday. “We have to protect and preserve our reserves.” The
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Update: Firefighters remain on the scene of a mulch fire off of Palm Drive and 20th Avenue in Desert Hot Springs. All roads in the area remain open. No evacuations were ordered for nearby residents. Parts of the mulch fire continue to burn. Firefighters are monitoring the flames. Update: 30 homes are now being threatened
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Fire crews with the Cal Fire Riverside Department worked to put out flames west of Whitewater. The fire engulfed an RV burning it to the ground and spreading flames to nearby vegetation. The fire burned about a quarter acre of the surrounding area. Chief Battalion Cody Wright said crews responded to a call around 2:06
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3 people are injured after a 2 vehicle crash in Palm Desert on Washington St. and Avenue 42 around 12:17 a.m. Saturday. According to Cal Fire, two people in a sedan needed to be extracted from their vehicle and taken to the hospital with major injuries. First-responders arrived on the scene to find a white
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Palm Springs Police were investigating an early morning shooting on the city’s south side Friday. A shooting at an inhabited location call was received at 12:42 a.m. along the 1800 block of Smoke Tree Lane, which is just south of East Palm Canyon near the Smoke Tree Plaza shopping center. A security guard reportedly saw
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Crews were working to clear debris from a collision on Interstate 10 in Cabazon Thursday morning and had cleared the roadway by 9:08 a.m. Two traffic lanes were blocked due to the police and fire activity in the freeway’s eastbound lanes east of Main Street. The collision happened at 7:45 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.
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California High Patrol officers responded to the scene of a two vehicle crash on the I-10 freeway heading westbound just after 9 this morning. The incident happened between Bob Hope Drive and Date Palm Drive in Cathedral City, causing some minor traffic back up at the time. Officers at the scene said a vehicle struck
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Cal Fire is responding to Warren Road in Hemet, where one person is seriously injured after a small plane crashed into a brick wall behind a few residences. On Tuesday at approximately 9:35 am, the Hemet Public Communications Center began receiving calls regarding a place crash near the intersection of Warren Road and Mustang Way.
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Fire crews were able to knock down an apartment fire in Desert Hot Springs on Friday night. CalFire responded to the this apartment building on Mesquite Avenue, just off of Palm Drive, just before 7p.m. Officials said 1 unit was completely destroyed, while 2 other units sustained smoke and water damage. “So one unit was
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Traffic is back up to speed on Interstate 10 after a Greyhound bus heading from LA to Phoenix crashed, sending at least a dozen people to the hospital and backing up traffic for miles. The California Highway Patrol said the bus was traveling in the #2 lane at about 60-65 mph when a tire blew
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Cal Fire and Riverside County firefighters responded to a mobile home fire in Thousand Palms this morning. The fire was reported around 8:45 a.m. on Colonial Drive, near Desert Moon Drive. It was put out just after 9:00 a.m. Fire officials on the scene told us a man inside the mobile home got out and
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A man is dead after a shooting in a house near a middle school in Coachella just after midnight, authorities confirmed. The shooting happened near the intersection of Shady Lane and Date Avenue across the street from Bobby Duke Middle School. Riverside County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that a shooting happened at approximately 12:17 a.m. NEWS
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Two people were killed and three others were injured in a Rancho Mirage traffic collision Wednesday evening, according to new information from the Riverside County Sheriffs Department. Cal Fire said the crash happened on Dinah Shore Drive near the Westin Mission Hills Resort at 8:14 p.m. In a statement released Thursday morning, the Sheriff’s Department
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A nine-month-old boy was injured so severely by his own father that he died days after the assault, police in Desert Hot Springs tell News Channel 3. Now the baby’s mother is left grieving and making funeral arrangements, after the death of her infant, Miguel Julius Lucero Martinez. 24-year-old Miguel Jeronemo Martinez Fernandez, the baby’s
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Firefighters were on the scene of an overnight fire inside an Indio mobile home park Monday morning. They were called to the Arabian Mobile Home Park off Calhoun Street shortly before 1:56 a.m. Monday. Firefighters say two mobile homes, a carport, and two vehicles were destroyed. A third mobile home was also damaged. The American Red Cross is
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A lockdown at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms was lifted Monday afternoon. A spokesperson at the base tells News Channel 3 that someone reported that they heard shots, but no victims or shooter had been located. The reports came in anonymously just before 9 a.m. “We have received reports of shots
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Interstate 10 traffic was being slowed Wednesday morning in the westbound lanes through Palm Desert from Washington Street to Monterey Avenue. #Traffic heads up: Workers are clearing sand in the center lanes of I-10 from Monterey to Bob Hope. This means lane closures and slowing traffic. Drive carefully or avoid the highway. https://t.co/2HjZB4AIaQVarner Road is a
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Firefighters have extinguished a fire at a home in Desert Hot Springs, which displaced one family this morning. The fire was called in around 9:00 a.m. at a residence on La Mesa Drive, near Ironwood Drive. Cal Fire said the fire started in one of the bedrooms and spread into the attic of the home.
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Investigators have identified 40-year-old Elijah Butler of Indio as the person who died in the car crash on Highway 74 on Saturday. Butler’s car went off the road on Highway 74 and caught fire. He was ejected from the car and officials pronounced him dead on the scene. Riverside County Fire Department responded to the
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Update: All lanes are back open UPDATE: RIVCO: EB 10 near Cactus City at Dillon (Coachella), all lanes now open. #Caltrans8— Caltrans District 8 (@Caltrans8) April 29, 2022 Original Report: One eastbound lane of Interstate 10 reopened, then was closed again Friday morning just east of Coachella following a collision involving two big rigs and
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