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Faculty and staff at California State San Bernardino Palm Desert campus welcome students back Monday with some COVID protocols still in place. Masks are required indoors until Friday, Sept. 16. Also, anyone using any university facility must be fully vaccinated against COVID. Rapid COVID testing will be available at the Palm Desert campus five days a week.
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Firefighters were on the scene of an early morning fire in the La Quinta Cove Monday that burned two homes and a travel trailer. The scene was on the 53000 block of Eisenhower Drive. The fire was reported at 3:02 a.m. 13 fire engines, two battalion chiefs, and a ladder truck helped at the scene. No injuries were reported.
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Riverside County Sheriff’s investigators tell News Channel 3 they are searching for an armed suspect who took cash from O’Reilly Auto Parts in Coachella. The store is located off Cesar Chavez Street. Investigators report the man entered the store just after 8:00 p.m. Sunday. He had a handgun and demanded cash. Once he got the
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First Community Baptist Church members celebrated their 75th anniversary on Sunday. Organizers of the special service say the church is one of the oldest in the Coachella Valley. The event was held at the Seventh Day Adventist Church located off Palm Drive. It was organized by the 75th Church Anniversary Committee. The service included musical
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A man has been arrested following a theft of a Cabazon business. Riverside County Sheriff’s investigators say they received a call around 3:20 p.m. on Friday. They were told that the suspect had taken several pairs of designer sunglasses from the business located off Seminole Drive. Investigators believe the man is linked to other thefts
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The Palm Springs Police Department is putting officers through an annual training that helps them develop their judgement skills. Officers at the Palm Springs Police Department use a computerized firearm judgement simulator equipped with a laser gun once a year. It runs through a variety of real life scenarios like responding to a mental health
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San Bernardino County Sheriff’s investigators say they have arrested a man following a deadly shooting in Yucca Valley. It was reported Friday around 4:30 p.m. near the 55400 block of Twentynine Palms Highway. Deputies who first got on scene say they found the victim lying in the parking lot with multiple gunshot wounds. He has
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Dan Price was the poster child for resisting corporate greed, making headlines in 2015 for setting a minimum $70,000 salary for all employees at the payments company he led — saying he cut his own salary as CEO by 90% to achieve it. On Wednesday, amid allegations of misconduct and
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It was a day filled with celebration at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert. Nia the Rhinoceros celebrated her fourth birthday and we were there to capture all the excitement. Crowds gathered to join the celebration this morning. The crew at the Rhino Savanna created a special cake made of Nia’s favorite
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A Palm Springs resident is sharing his concerns after being unable to get his second dose of the monkeypox vaccine. “The understanding when I got the first one is that the second one was already set aside. And I was told no, that’s not the case,” said resident Howard Poulsen. He felt frustrated after he
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The 2022 high school football season is back! Below is the week 1 schedule for our area teams, headlined by our game of the week, the Mayor’s Cup between Shadow Hills and Indio. Friday 8/19 *Game of the Week Shadow Hills – 28Indio – 13F Shadow Hills defending the Mayor’s Cup to kick off their
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With less than three months to go before the November elections, we now know which candidates in municipal races made it onto the general ballot. Desert Hot Springs In Desert Hot Springs, Councilmember Gary Gardner is running unopposed in District 1. Incumbent Jan Pye is facing a challenge from former DHS Mayor Adam Sanchez in
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Students in our area are getting more than academic support as they head back to school. “I’ve actually had a few people asked me to check on you. And most of those people were teachers. And she just broke down in tears. You could tell at that moment that she realized she wasn’t alone,” said
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The humidity is making businesses rethink how to keep locals coming to their restaurants and accommodating the tourist during the slow summer season. Companies in downtown Palm Springs have the misters, and even those add to the moisture in the air that is usually supposed to keep guests cool. During this time of year, “it
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Crews continued the cleanup in Joshua Tree National Park Friday after severe thunderstorms and flash flooding damaged roads and other infrastructure. “During the flash flood flood events, the water moves a lot of soil and gravel and bigger rocks, covers the road and makes the roads impassable,” said Acting Park Superintendent Frank Klein. “Flash flooding
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An Indio man who gunned down his cousin in an ambush outside an apartment complex because he felt that the victim had publicly denigrated him was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A Riverside jury in April convicted 26-year-old Raymond Hernandez of the 2014 fatal attack on 36-year-old Manuel
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The Southern California Gas Company announced today the construction of an advanced hydrogen generation system, the first of its kind, at the SunLine Transit Agency. “SunLine has been pioneering hydrogen technologies for nearly three decades and partnering with SoCalGas on this project continues the momentum necessary to make hydrogen fueling accessible to the public,” said
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An algal bloom in Lake Elsinore prompted the state today to issue a “danger alert,” applying to all recreational activity, which officials said should be discontinued until further notice. According to the California Water Resources Control Board, the bloom that appeared last week was confirmed to contain cyanobacteria, posing a potential health threat to people
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Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. honored local boxing legend Librado “Lee” Espinoza at the Coachella Valley Boxing Club today. A crowd gathered to honor Lee Espinoza, who is known as Coachella’s own “godfather of boxing”, as the Hall of Fame inductee received a Congressional Record of his life story from Congressman Ruiz, MD. Lee Espinoza is
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