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Fire officials in Palm Springs are pushing to grow the department’s staff to keep up with growing demand for emergency services in the city. Crews said they’re pushing to add 15 new firefighters, which would allow them to respond more efficiently when emergencies break out. Palm Springs Fire Association President Brandon Battaglia said staffing presently
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Plans for Coachella 2023 have been announced. Week one of the festival will take place April 14-16, and April 21- 23 for week two. Coachella returns April 14-16 & 21-23, 2023 🌵Register now to access the 2023 advance sale beginning Friday, June 17th at 10am PT at https://t.co/qujCsdCWkp pic.twitter.com/2UUEeXlgZC— Coachella (@coachella) June 14, 2022 This
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Lifestream Blood Bank’s 10th annual 9 cities Blood Drive Challenge kicks off on July 1. From July 1 to August 31, the Coachella Valley’s nine cities take part in a friendly competition to see which community will get the most involved in collecting blood donations. “This two month initiative is about the importance of community well-being.
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By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A government advisory panel Tuesday endorsed a second brand of COVID-19 vaccine for school-age children and teens. The Food and Drug Administration’s outside experts voted unanimously that Moderna’s vaccine is safe and effective enough to give kids ages 6 to 17. If the FDA agrees,
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A former Indio resident pled guilty to federal charges for his role in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of more than $15 million. Joey Stanton Dodson, 58, formerly of Indio and now residing in the Hollywood Dell neighborhood of Los Angeles, engaged in a scheme between November 2012 and May 2015 to defraud investors
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A 39-year-old dump truck driver accused of causing a deadly 1,000-acre blaze in Calimesa by intentionally dropping flaming debris from his rig in the middle of a windstorm pleaded not guilty today to felony charges. Antonio Ornelas Velazquez of Desert Hot Springs was charged last year with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count
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The Board of Supervisors today authorized Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to proceed with the planned acquisition of 228 vehicles at a cost of $9.12 million. In a 5-0 vote, the board signed off on Bianco’s proposal to procure the vehicles via financing through Banc of America Public Capital Corp. “The vehicles will be
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On Thursday, the Palm Springs City Council is expected to discuss the next plans for its Homeless Navigation Center. City staff have recommended that the council approve an $860,604 architectural design services agreement with John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects, city documents show. The navigation center will be located at 3589 McCarthy Road in the northern
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Fisher-Price is warning parents not to use their Infant-to-Toddler or Newborn-to-Toddler Rockers for unsupervised sleeping purposes following an increase of infant deaths using the product. The company revealed that 13 infants died between 2009 and 2021 while sleeping in a Fisher-Price rocker. Fisher-Price and the CPSC remind consumers not to use Infant-to-Toddler or Newborn-to-Toddler Rockers
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A traffic accident on the I-10 has injured three at a homeless camp in Banning. At around 8:30 Tuesday morning a black mustang had a tire blow out causing it to crash into a silver pick up truck. That truck lost control and rolled over, crashing through a fence and landing on a tent at
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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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Palm Springs Mayor Lisa Middleton will be spending her 70th birthday at the White House later this week. “To have an opportunity to represent our city at the White House with this President is just a remarkable moment,” said Mayor Middleton. The City of Palm Springs announced that Mayor Middleton has accepted an invitation from
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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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The official start of summer is more than a week away but the heat is already surging in the Coachella Valley. The temperatures are getting so hot, that it can be extremely dangerous for your health. Dr. Andrew Kassinove is the chief of staff at JFK Memorial Hospital in Indio. It was a busy weekend
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The Riverside County Fair and the National Date Festival are officially coming back to the City of Indio. After years of uncertainty, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors finalized a partnership with Pickering Events LLC to oversee the Riverside County Fairgrounds. The partnership is set to last 5 years, you can get more details here.
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A Palm Springs area man has pleaded guilty to one count of distributing child pornography after he was caught streaming sexually explicit videos of children in a Zoom online meeting. In two separate incidents between February and March of 2018, Michael John Andersen, 53, presented five separate videos of child pornography over Zoom, two of which
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The California State Senate passed a new bill that would require police agencies to restore public access to radio communications. In late 2018, valley law enforcement agencies encrypted their radio signals, blocking the public from hearing real-time updates on crimes, crashes and other matters of safety. “We believe that there’s a critical need for both
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A former Shadow Hills High School basketball coach is pleading guilty to charges of sexually assaulting a teenage girl, who he coached. 36-year old Ryan Leron Towner was arrested last June, accused of felony counts of lewd acts with a child under 14 with force, and unlawful intercourse with a minor. Towner made his plea
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Eric Frankson is a Director on the Well In the Desert Board and he created a Bike Program to give unhoused individuals transportation here in the desert. Frankson believes that giving transportation to their clients gives them the ability to get around the city with hopes of helping them get back on their feet. Some
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95,000 tins of baby formula were shipped to California on Sunday night to help ease the shortage families across the United States are seeing. This is part of “Operation Fly Formula”, a plan created by the Biden Administration. The formula was shipped from Melbourne, Australia from a company called “Bubbs Infant Formula”. The tins will
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