California voters will decide whether to keep Governor Gavin Newsom or oust him from office in favor of one of 46 candidates on the recall ballot. The high stakes recall election comes less than a year after the most scrutinized election in history that in Riverside County alone has been the subject of audits, a
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Reports of crimes against children in Riverside County are up tenfold since the beginning of the pandemic according to Wade Walsvick, Supervising Investigator for the Riverside County Child Exploitation Team/RCCET. The Child Exploitation Team is led by the District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigation and is tasked with investigating CyberTips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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The mandate from the state that all health care workers get vaccinated by September 30th, including those working in nursing facilities, has some scrambling to meet the deadline. Some are concerned they’re going to lose a portion of their workforce, while others are ahead of the mandate, already implementing the new rules. I-team reporter Karen Devine masked
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Palm Springs Police Chief Bryan Reyes is set to retire at the end of next month, ending a nearly three decade long career with the department. Reyes, 51, has received multiple recognitions and awards throughout his 27 years at the Palm Springs Police Department, including Officer of the Year back in 2000. “It’s never about
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Hundreds of thousands of Californians continue to wait to get unemployment benefits that they are owed. Valley resident Nicky Faeth was one of them. “I felt like I was a guinea pig and I went through all of the hurdles in order to just make things happen,” Faeth says. Faeth found out her benefits had
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A different kind of desert is emerging across the valley affecting families from nearly every background and experts warn if things don’t change soon the problem will continue to get much worse. Even before the pandemic, finding good child care was a challenge for many parents. but things got much tougher.. when many day care
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When the Oak View Group recently broke ground on the new, $300-million privately-funded arena, it did so on land owned by the Berger Foundation. The private, non-profit foundation decided to lease the 43-acre-site to Oak View Group after the company’s partnership with the Agua Caliente tribe to build an arena in downtown palm springs dissolved.
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Drive-thru ordering surged over the last year as the pandemic closed indoor dining and made customers wary of going into restaurants. Now, many fast-food chains are ramping up investments to make drive-thru lanes more efficient. But in Palm Desert, drive-thrus remain a sensitive issue. For years they’ve been banned on Highway 111 but now is
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In 2019, the I-Team uncovered documents that showed the president of the Humane Society of the Desert was reimbursed tens of thousands of dollars after making charges to credit cards issued to the nonprofit. Including luxury hotel stays, meals at local restaurants, a Louis Vuitton purse and even cosmetic surgery. Malinda Bustos was suspended and
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The costs continue to mount for Riverside County over a year into the pandemic. News Channel 3 obtained records showing a list of contracts executed under emergency contracting authority because of the pandemic. The county had spent over $137 million through the end of April of this year. The Assistant Director of Riverside County Public
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During Thursday’s Palm Desert city council meeting, councilmember Karina Quintanilla discussed what she calls a desperate need for a new human-rights commission. “After having some very impassioned conversations with residents and also with Mayor Kelly about some very unsettling experiences that were held by families of color in the city of Palm Desert,” Quintanilla said.
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It’s one of the biggest and most expensive projects the Coachella Valley has ever seen. Construction is underway on 43-acres of unincorporated land near Palm Desert just north of the I-10 freeway next to the Classic Club Golf Course. Renderings show what the $300-million, privately-funded arena is expected to look like once it’s completed by
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CV Link construction is plowing ahead around the Coachella Valley to the tune of more than $52 million dollars. That’s more than half the project’s total cost. In late March, News Channel 3 showed you a groundbreaking event at the border of Indio and La Quinta where a new CV Link bridge will soon connect
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Riverside County is working to open communications with the City of Palm Springs after Police Chief Bryan Reyes blasted a program that places homeless people who need to quarantine in a hotel in the city. In March, Reyes raised concerns after finding out about the program that places at-risk homeless people, some who are released
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We’re getting a clearer picture of the damage done to the Coachella Valley’s economy, one year after the beginning of multiple shutdowns. Tonight Karen Devine goes indepth in her I-Team report “One Year in Lockdown” to show you how billions of dollars have been lost in tourism revenue, a shrinking workforce and the uncertainty of
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A lot of Coachella Valley students are failing or barely getting by in their classes during these times of distance learning. And when it comes to D’s and F’s in school, there’s a very good chance your kid might be getting them. Report cards are giving educators a concrete indicator of just how much learning
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A clash between riverside county’s top elections official and the county district attorney over the security of ballots. In emails and letters uncovered by the I-Team, the Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer accuses District Attorney Mike Hestrin of voter suppression during the recent election. Spencer wrote in an email to the board of supervisors in
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The state agency that pays out unemployment-insurance to millions of Californians has admitted that losses during the pandemic could climb into the tens of billion dollars. The i-team has heard from dozens of viewers outraged with how the unemployment department, or EDD, has left them hanging with confusing applications, jammed phone-lines and payments that never
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The Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival would have opened Friday for its 75th anniversary. This year’s fair is canceled because of the pandemic and now there are questions about the long term future of the fair. The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved $1.6 million in funding for the fairgrounds in November of
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Did a La Quinta resident threaten the City Council? La Quinta’s Mayor says “yes” during a recent meeting on the future of short-term vacation rentals in the city. But that resident and others argue the city owes him an apology. “I was shocked. I was dumbfounded,” said long-time La Quinta Cove resident, Paul Quill. Quill
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