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The Shadow Hills high school basketball staff will be new next season, both for the boys and girls programs. The Knights have decided not to retain boys head basketball coach Ryan Towner, as well as girls head coach Greg Ramirez. Desert Sands Unified School District confirmed this to KESQ on Tuesday saying, “earlier today, Shadow
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Pieces of the Forever Marilyn statue arrived in Palm Springs Tuesday night. The sculpture left New Jersey on two trucks on June 1. Viewers sent in pictures of the sculpture’s head and leg out near the site where it will soon stand. Forever Marilyn will be placed on Museum Way in downtown Palm Springs right behind
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Marilyn has started making her highly anticipated return to Palm Springs! Parts of the Forever Marilyn sculpture are starting to arrive in downtown Palm Springs ahead of its construction. The sculpture left New Jersey on two trucks on June 1. Viewers sent in pictures of the sculpture’s head and leg out near the site where
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The Palm Springs Animal Shelter says their kennels have been filling up recently and they’re hoping the community can help. “Right now the shelter is pretty much full. We might have one kennel available for stray animals that come in,” said Gabrielle Amster, Executive Director, Palm Springs Animal Shelter. “We haven’t started doubling up on
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Three people were being treated for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds Wednesday morning after a shooting in a Coachella neighborhood. The Riverside County Sheriffs Department said Thermal Station deputies were called to a shooting along the 50400 block of Saltillo Circle at 11:09 p.m. Tuesday night. Deputies found evidence of a shooting there along with a home
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New rate increase could send water bills skyrocketing in just a few months. Higher rates were approved Tuesday by the Coachella Valley Water District for homeowners and commercial users. The CVWD board of directors Tuesday approved a 1-year rate increase to make up for an estimated $81 million dollar budget shortfall, according to a cost
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UPDATE 3:20 p.m. North Gene Autry Trail has been reopened between Via Escuela and Salvia Road after being closed since last night due to poor visibility caused by blowing sand, the Palm Springs Police Department reports. Original Story Palm Springs Police closed Gene Autry Trail through the Whitewater Wash at 9:11 p.m. Monday due to
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The City of Coachella is launching a new incentive program for businesses called “Opportunity Coachella.” The city plans to accept proposals from businesses seeking to launch, expand or relocate to the east valley. A panel of judges will evaluate the different proposals and award financial prizes: first place will earn $5,000 followed by $3,000 and
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When the Palm Springs Power and Palm Springs Collegiate League take the field at Palm Springs Stadium this summer, there will be more local talent than ever. “Growing up out here, it was like, oh you want to play for the Power when you’re in college cause it’s like, it’s cool, you know,” said Josh
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San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man and located several illegal weapons following a short pursuit in Yucca Valley. The incident began Saturday at around 5:44 p.m. in the 7400 Block Lucerne Vista in Yucca Valley. Deputies were told that a man had brandished a firearm. When deputies arrived at a the scene, they found
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The Imperial Irrigation District and Assemblyman Chad Mayes are at a war of words, which could potentially escalate to IID pulling out of the Coachella Valley altogether and taking legal action. The district threatened the move in response to proposed legislation by Mayes to increase the IID board of directors from 5 to 6 members,
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All three local school districts are planning to fully reopen its classrooms when students return for the fall semester. “As long as any revised school guidelines (after June 15) don’t preclude us doing so, we plan to fully reopen on Aug. 4,” said Joan Boiko, PSUSD spokesperson. August 4 also marks the first day of school
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The remains of a Covina man missing since September 2018 were found in Palm Springs back in March, police confirmed on Monday. The skeletal remains of Michael John Enguidanos, 54, were found in the city of Palm Springs on March 12, 2021, Beaumont Police announced. Police said Enguidanos’ remains were found by the Coachella Valley
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A job fair will be held next week to fill nearly 150 positions in multiple departments at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa owned by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, it was announced today. The job fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on June 16 in the Morongo Grand Ballroom.
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Desert Care Network is hosting its annual cereal drive, benefiting FIND Food Bank locally. The drive kicks off Monday, June 7 and runs through Monday, June 14. Donations of healthy cereal to the Healthy Over Hungry® Cereal Drive will be collected in the main lobbies of: Desert Regional Medical Center, 1150 N. Indian Canyon Drive
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A local family is grieving after a 28-year-old Cathedral City father was killed in a rollover crash last Tuesday. “You’re not supposed to outlive your kids so it’s not easy,” said Tabitha Everson, the mother of the victim, Miguel Ortiz Jr. Everson says her son was tragically killed last week when his car overturned near
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A series of earthquakes were reported Saturday morning in an area southeast of the Salton Sea, near Calipatria. A preliminary magnitude 5.3 earthquake jolted Imperial County according to the United States Geological Survey. The largest of the quakes hit at 10:55 a.m. Saturday about 6 miles west of Calipatria, a small town near the Salton
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Local officials are gearing up for the Fourth of July, now a month away, to prevent illegal fireworks. Last year holds the record for illegal fireworks reports in the county, police said, and fire crews are working this year to prevent it from happening again. In 2020, fireworks lit up the Coachella Valley night sky
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled Friday that the state’s definition of illegal military-style rifles unlawfully deprives law-abiding Californians of weapons commonly allowed in most other states.
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The states occupational safety and health board, Cal/OSHA, voted Thursday to keep masks mandatory for employees at work past June 15, unless everyone in the room is fully vaccinated. “This is one I think people are going to be particularly frustrated; they already are in California. We’ve been routinely behind all the other states and
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