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Police were investigating two overnight shootings, one that left a man dead in Thousand Palms, the other in Cathedral City. The Riverside County Sheriffs Department confirmed to KESQ News Channel 3 one man was found dead at a home on Stanton Drive near Ramon Road at approximately 2:15 a.m. The Sheriffs Department provided few immediate
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Thousands of people were being told to get out of their homes Thursday as the third storm of the week approached, bringing with it the threat of mudslides and debris flows in communities scarred by recent wildfires. As the system tracked toward the Coachella Valley, evacuations were ordered in the mountains west of the Morongo
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Elizabeth Senso is a frontline worker working six days a week during the coronavirus pandemic. She works at Gelson’s grocery store in Rancho Mirage and has been there for over 10 years. “I just marked my 30 years in the grocery business in November,” said Senso. Samantha Wright is Senso’s friend and the one who
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Confusion over the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine led to a broken promise to get some of our most vulnerable citizens the shot first. In I-Team Reporter Karen Devine’s special report “Vaccine Void” she spoke with community members who said the rollout plan by the state left some people out and scrambling to get the
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WATCH THE FULL UNCUT INTERVIEWS BELOW: A war of words between Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and Palm Springs Mayor Christy Holstege has elicited a strong reaction on social media. Holstege is critical of Bianco’s handling of the pandemic and how he recently described his own experience with the virus as “no big deal.” The
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People living in the Snow Creek Community south of Palm Springs are bracing for possible flooding and debris flows as a result of a winter storm expected to move into the Coachella Valley area Thursday night. The community could be hit with runoff from surrounding mountains and hillsides left scorched by the Snow Fire, which
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People living living in and around burn scar areas in San Bernardino County are being told to evacuate ahead of the next winter storm. With rain in the forecast, authorities say the areas where the Apple and El Dorado fires burned are now at high risk for mudslides and flooding. The evacuation warning was issued
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Riverside County reported 1,615 new cases since Wednesday, bringing the total of cases up to 270,105. The Coachella Valley reported 228 new cases (45,882 total) Download the News Channel 3 app on the Apple Store or Google Play to get alerts on when new appointments or vaccine clinics are available. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue
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Riverside County now has 33 COVID vaccination clinics available exclusively for residents 85 years and older to register for. Registration is now open. You can register at https://www.rivcoph.org/COVID-19-Vaccine. For seniors who need assistance, can dial 2-1-1. Download the News Channel 3 app on the Apple Store or Google Play to get alerts on when new appointments or vaccine clinics
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Felony charges were filed today against a felon accused of trying to kidnap an 8-year-old boy, whose father came to his son’s rescue at a Palm Springs hotel. Joseph Ryan Harvey, 30, of Bermuda Dunes was taken into custody at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 400 block of South Indian Canyon Drive, less than
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An extra mask could better protect the public from more contagious variants, but fit and filters are still most important factors. Doctors are reminding everyone to keep-up their guard as the state eases up on coronavirus restrictions. In fact, many of them now recommend wearing 2 masks to protect against new variants that are more
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The third winter storm of the week will bring widespread rain to the Southland Thursday and Friday. The rain looks to first reach the San Gorgonio Pass and desert late Thursday night. A Flash Flood Watch has been issued from the coast to our local mountains beginning at 7:00 p.m. Thursday. This includes our local
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Coachella Valley emergency crews are gearing up, cities have staff on standby for road closures, and residents are preparing for potential flash flooding ahead of the third winter storm of the week, expected to bring impressive rainfall totals to the desert. Anxieties are running high in flood-prone zones of the valley as an “atmospheric river”
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Representative Raul Ruiz is back in the Coachella Valley after recovering from coronavirus. Dr. Ruiz announced late Wednesday night he was cleared by the DC COVID case agent and is now once again in the Coachella Valley. “I was cleared this morning by the DC COVID case manager and I called a coronavirus physician specialist
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The Coachella City Council issues a proclamation honoring United States Capitol Police Officer Juan Lopez, a Coachella native, for his heroic actions during the riots at the Capitol. Lopez was not able to be present to accept the honor as family said all Capitol Police Officers have been working 12 to 16 hour shifts daily
Continue ReadingRiverside County and the State of California are making a number of changes to vaccine distribution after a number of problems were discovered with the initial rollout. Geoffrey Leung, M.D. of Riverside University Health still believes the county is doing okay. “So, we think Riverside County has been doing well with the rollout,” Leung says.
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As difficult as it has been to get the first round of COVID-19 vaccines, the second dose is proving to be just as hard for some Riverside County residents. Healthcare workers were the first group to get vaccinated, but many have reached out to News Channel 3 saying the process to get it is difficult
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The San Bernardino County Fire Department has issued an evacuation warning for burn scar areas from the El Dorado Fire and the Apple Fire. The warning is just ahead of a winter storm expected to hit the Inland Empire late Thursday night and into Friday morning. Fire officials are concerned that heavy rain could cause
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Firefighters are working to contain a fire that officials say is burning deep within a drainage culvert with limited confined space access. The fire is burning near Highway 86 and 66th Avenue in Mecca. Officials are not sure what is burning inside the culvert at this time. Smoke is very visible in the area. The
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An Indio man is in the hospital after being shot in Cathedral City Wednesday morning. Authorities were initially alerted to the shooting at approximately 5:30 a.m. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department responded to Eisenhower Health regarding a shooting victim who had been dropped offat the emergency room. The investigation later revealed that the
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