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The Desert Hot Springs City Council unanimously approved a contract with the police department for a school resource officer at its high school. The contract will now move to the Palm Springs Unified School District board of education. If the board approves it, then SROs will return to Desert Hot Springs High School’s campus. PSUSD
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If you ride the bus in the valley you might want to double check the schedule. Sunline Transit Agency is modifying certain bus routes due to a shortage of bus drivers starting October 17th. “This last Sunday, Sunline Transit Agency moved over to ‘Service Level 2.’ What that means is that our local routes are
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The College of the Desert today announced it has been awarded a $1.3 million grant to help low-income, first-generation students find a path to college. The U.S Department of Education awarded the community college with the $1,386,870 “Educational Talent Search” grant in order to identify and assist middle- and high-school students who have the potential
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If the mixing and matching of booster shots is approved, then maybe somebody who qualifies for a booster shot and initially got the Moderna vaccine could go on to get a Pfizer booster shot. Maybe the side effects they got with Moderna were bad and they want to try something different.” The U.S. may soon
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The Riverside County Coroner’s Office has released the identity of the man killed in an officer-involved shooting last week on Interstate 10 in Palm Springs. Russell Leggett, 30, of Idyllwild was pronounced dead on Thursday after following a police pursuit that ended in a shooting. Police said the pursuit began at around midnight when Leggett
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El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents discovered a fake FexEx truck with undocumented individuals smuggled into the United States. The discovery happened Thursday afternoon near the Highway 111 checkpoint not far from Niland. According to Border Patrol, agents spotted the white delivery van “exhibiting signs consistent with human smuggling.” There were no details as to
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A small, 3.0-magnitude earthquake rattled a remote area of Riverside County near Idyllwild Monday at approximately 12:11 p.m., the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The temblor was centered 3.9 miles southwest of Mountain Center, approximately 6 miles southwest of Idyllwild, according to the USGS. It was at a depth of about eight miles. No damage or
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A woman was pronounced after being struck by a vehicle over the weekend in Indio. The collision happened at approximately 2:09 p.m. on Sunday near the intersection of Avenue 51 and Monroe Street. Ben Guitron of the Indio Police Department said an elderly woman in a motorized wheelchair was found sitting upright on the dirt
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Mitch Gershenfeld will be the new CEO of the McCallum Theater, News Channel 3’s Peter Daut confirms. Gershenfeld was the former CEO of the McCallum, retiring in 2019, however, he briefly returned to the role in 2020 following the departure of his successor, Terrence W. Dwyer. This is the second time he returns following his
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The public is invited to a public meeting Tuesday evening to provide feedback on drafted redistricting maps that can ultimately change the political priorities of a district’s representative. Latino representation has been a key issue in these redistricting maps. Redistricting measures are put in place to ensure there is fair and equal representation as the
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Student safety is a major concern for parents with kids at Desert Hot Springs High School, where there has been a pattern of ongoing violence on campus. Parents, students, teachers, police and city officials gathered at city hall Monday night for a town hall meeting to address the repeated fights on campus. “We are in
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A national agricultural farmworkers organization is traveling the country checking in on women who work in the fields. The organization, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, is working hard to educate women who work in fields across the country, not only about programs available to them during the pandemic but also about their rights in the workplace.
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Multiple agencies pushed Riverside County’s overall overtime expenses above $100 million in the previous fiscal year, with the sheriff’s department leading the pack, according to a report that the Board of Supervisors will review tomorrow. The Office of the Auditor-Controller just completed its 2020-21 fiscal year “Full Transparency Countywide Overtime Monitoring” assessment and, according to
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Department of Fish and Wildlife officials were able to safely capture a mountain lion that ended up inside a Palm Springs condo complex, Sunrise Palms. The incident started Monday at around 7:30 a.m. in the area of N Hermosa Drive and Sunflower Circle. Residents said they spotted the mountain lion in the backyard of one
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The Coachella Valley Rescue Mission held a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Calvary Christian Center in Cathedral City Monday morning to celebrate the expansion of its homeless outreach program. The organization unveiled the first-ever mobile shower trailers for the homeless in the Coachella Valley. The CV Rescue Mission announced that the addition of the new
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A Thermal man was killed in a “brutal attack” by a bat-wielding assailant three years ago, a prosecutor told jurors today, but a defense attorney said there was doubt about the circumstances of the fatality, suggesting the alleged attacker was actually defending himself during a fight. Saul Mayoral, 53, is accused in the March 23,
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Some protestors are pushing back against the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine mandate for school children, right here in California. At the time that KESQ cameras were on-site, about a dozen people protested outside of Desert Sands Unified School District headquarters on Monday morning as part of a planned walk-out across the state. KESQ requested the
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Teresa Gallavan will be the new assistant city manager in Palm Springs, City Manager Justin Clifton announced on Monday. She will begin her new position in Palm Springs in mid-November. “I am thrilled to be bringing Teresa on to join our team. This is an important position that plays a key role in leading the
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The JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa has a new multi-million dollar redesign. The resort has redesigned many aspects from its lobby to its guest rooms. The following are changes that were a part of the redesign: 884 guest rooms, including 101 luxury suitesNew hardwood floorsModern furnishingsPlush beddingMountain-inspired silhouette muralsQuartz vanities in bathroomsRain-style showersMore
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While farmworkers picked the produce that filled stores last year to ensure communities still had food, many of them were still going home to empty refrigerators themselves. Since the start of the pandemic FIND Food Bank has hosted Mercado Campesinos where it provides easy food assistance access to farmworkers at their place of work. Each
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