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Nearly 7 months after starting a nonstop service from Reno to Palm Springs, the discount airline aha! will cease all operations. aha!’s parent company, ExpressJet Airlines, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, stopping all flights, laying off most of its employees, and furloughing 1,300 pilots. The company plans to try to sell the operating certificate
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A 49-year-old man accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of designer sunglasses from a Cabazon mall was charged today with grand theft. Demon Wannee Dennis of Hemet was arrested Friday after the alleged theft at the Desert Hills Premium Outlets on Seminole Drive, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Dennis, who is being
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Arabian Gardens Mobile Home Park is in the City of Indio. This privately owned mobile home park is in the second phase of the Mobilehome park utility conversion program with the Southern California Gas Company. “The modernization program replaces aging, privately owned, master-metered systems with new utility-owned systems at qualified mobile home parks throughout California,”
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his administration’s plan to manage student loans. “Both of these targeted actions are for families who need it the most: working and middle-class people hit especially hard during the pandemic,” Biden said in remarks at the White House Wednesday afternoon. In a tweet, the president said the move keeps
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Authorities today identified a 42-year-old man whose body was found in Indio. Officers responded to an area near Date Avenue and Denslow Street at around 4 a.m. Tuesday to a report of an unresponsive individual on the ground, according to the Indio Police Department. https://youtu.be/I7Ku97wtb7E Police said the man was pronounced dead at the scene,
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Riverside County reported 30 more confirmed or probable monkeypox cases today, with Palm Springs now making up exactly half of the overall number of 158. Riverside University Health System provides updated numbers on a monkeypox dashboard that shares a breakdown of cases in the county with city-by-city data and more. https://youtu.be/TN8fvFJ9AHE Last Wednesday, the county’s
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Palm Springs Fire Department has a new, improved tool to help save lives. It’s replacing decade-old breathing devices with new ones with improved safety features. This piece of equipment is called a Self Contained Breathing Apparatus. It is a lifeline for firefighters. They use this equipment to be able to breathe when all of that smoke, heat, and flames
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The Palm Springs Police Department continues to conduct its “Operation Clean Streets” in the downtown area. On Tuesday, PSPD, along with state parole and Riverside County probation, were in the downtown Palm Springs area. 11 arrests were made for a variety of violations. Officers were also out making contact with downtown businesses. Just last week,
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All schools in the desert are dealing with the high temperatures but at some DSUSD parents are voicing their concerns about the lack of heat safety infrastructure and protocols at their children’s schools. Parents have reported that children are experiencing heat-related illness symptoms such as nausea, headaches and even nosebleeds while spending time outdoors during
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Editor’s Note: The Riverside County District Attorney’s office confirmed that charges were dropped in September 2022 “in the interest of justice.” The article has been updated with the correct information. A 41-year-old man charged with illegally possessing multiple firearms and narcotics failed to appear in court today and had a warrant issued for his arrest.
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On Tuesday, Riverside County received 690 vials of the monkeypox vaccine from the California Department of Public Health. But as monkeypox cases continue to grow in the Coachella Valley, there’s not enough vaccines to keep up with demand. “We’re still in limited supply compared to the need in our county,” said Dr. Jennifer Chevinsky, Riverside
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Palm Springs and GT Molecular have started to test for monkeypox in the city’s wastewater, officials announced on Tuesday. The first two results of the testing were released on Tuesday. MPX Results From Aug 7 to Sept 11 “Recent testing has confirmed the detection of monkeypox virus in Palm Springs wastewater. Because the data is
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A woman whose remains were found 31 years ago in Thermal has been identified thanks to the use of forensic genealogy, the Riverside County Regional Cold Case Homicide Team announced on Monday. On Tuesday, the Cold Case Homicide Team announced the remains were those of Kathryn Coffey of Baldwin Park. Coffey’s remains were found in
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Indio Police Department is conducting a suspicious death investigation at the intersection of Date Ave and Denslow Street. According to the department, at around 3:50 a.m. on Tuesday, police were notified of an unresponsive man on the ground on Denslow Street. The circumstances surrounding the man’s death have not been released, as of Tuesday afternoon.
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A convicted sex offender accused of illegally entering a Riverside elementary school campus and sexually assaulting a girl in a restroom was charged today with forcible lewd acts on a child and other offenses. Logan Allen Nighswonger, 32, of Riverside, was arrested Friday within a few hours of the alleged assault at McAuliffe Elementary School
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It’s a first for the U.S. Postal Service, organizing a local hiring blitz Tuesday with more than 20 area post offices hosting job fairs. 21 post offices across Riverside and San Bernardino counties will host job fairs on Tuesday. The job fairs will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For a full list of the Riverside and
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Friday, August 26th marks 1 year since Marine Corporal Hunter Lopez was killed in action. He was among 13 U.S. service members killed in a terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan last year. His parents tell News Channel 3’s Samantha Lomibao it’s been a tough one, but the love and support of the community has helped
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Two homes and a travel trailer were burned early Monday morning near Calle Monterey and Avenida Martinez. News Channel 3 spoke to the family that escaped the flames. One of them was homeowner Joseph Hern, who was feeling a range of emotions from gratitude after surviving the fire to complete shock over the total loss
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The Valley Sanitary District in Indio has begun collecting samples to test for the presence of monkeypox. This week marks the start of a new program in which samples will be taken three times a week and tested for the virus. Officials said it could give a clearer picture of monkeypox’s spread, and might show
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On Monday, several students from College of the Desert presented a project as part of the NASA on Campus Internship program. Over the last five weeks, students built and programmed a satellite with help from NASA. They launched it over the Salton Sea to measure the carbon dioxide levels and take other readings. “Honestly, it’s surreal, like
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