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Last Friday, drivers throughout the Coachella Valley had to dodge pothole-littered roadways that caused damage to vehicles. Drivers say they were frustrated. “I hit that pothole so hard.I blew my tire, pulled over right here,” Jeanine Powell said. “I hit that pothole dead on and my car [went] ‘woosh,’ right off the road,” Michelle Chavez

After a unanimous vote by the Palm Springs City Council on Wednesday night the city will be buying a big piece of equipment for its Police Department. It’s called a Ballistic Engineered Armored Response vehicle or BEAR for short. Currently there is one smaller, older SWAT vehicle called a BEARCAT which is shared by SWAT

A day after hundreds of people showed up for a rally outside the Palm Springs City Hall to pressure the City Council to designate the city as a sanctuary city, there is action. “Tonight at the City Council meeting, I’m going to be asking that an ordinance that I am currently working on drafting with

College tuition will no longer be a factor for Valley high school students graduating in 2017. College of the Desert is offering a tuition-free education next fall. “If you look at the college going rate throughout the state, it’s low in this area and we need to increase that,” said superintendent and president of College

With Super Bowl Sunday just days away, football fans across the Coachella Valley aren’t the only ones gearing up for the big game. “We understand that, part of the excitement, that there will be gatherings and parties where people will decide to drink alcohol,” Deputy Armando Munoz with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said. It’s

Desert Hot Springs police are looking for a thief that was caught on a surveillance camera while stealing that surveillance camera from local elementary school early Wednesday morning. The camera was stolen from Cabot Yerxa Elementary in Desert Hot Springs on Desert View Avenue at a little past 3 a.m. According to DHSPD, the only

Palm Desert Girls Soccer: Alyssa Granados (UNLV) Jane Jordan (UC-Riverside) Afton Kalkoske (Towson) Alex Fabela (San Marcos) Rancho Mirage Football: Daniel Whelan (UC-Davis) Jonnathan Avila (Azusa Pacific) Palm Springs Football: Damion Lee (Washington St.) La Quinta Boys Soccer: Lucas Rosales (Cal State Fullerton) La Quinta Girls Soccer: Alexi Mejia (Cal Lutheran) La Quinta Softball: Lauren

Boulders and smaller rocks that rolled onto state Route 243 near Idyllwild during the recent winter storms were being removed Wednesday to make travel safe through the area, where traffic disruptions are likely for the remainder of the week. “There were two or three locations where we had some boulder-size rocks come down,” Caltrans District

Palm Springs announced Monday that they received a $7 million dollar grant for the Vista Chino Bridge Project. The grant allows Palm Springs to move forward with the next phase of the Vista Chino Bridge Project over Whitewater River. Vista Chino is one the three routes that is often closed because of flooding or sand

Indio High School hosted a teen suicide prevention presentation at the high school for parents of students at the school. Parents learned about how to look out for signs and listen to their teens when it comes to teenage suicide. “We have parents who are very alarmed not knowing what the danger signs are,” Derrick

New data from the Valley-Wide Health Survey is showing an increase in the amount of people with medical insurance. With President Donald Trump looking to repeal the Affordable Care Act, some health officials fear that number could go down. KESQ News Channel 3’s Jeremy Chen reports more about how this could impact community members, and

ABC’s special report has ended. President Donald Trump selected Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court Tuesday at 5 p.m. Read more about the nomination here.

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The reaction to President Trump’s executive orders on immigration remains strong in the desert. Tuesday in Palm Springs, efforts were at full throttle to push leaders to declare Palm Springs as a sanctuary city. KESQ News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2 heard reaction from the community and city leaders on Monday as the rally

Officials at The Living Desert have announced that both of the zoo’s African wild dogs passed away this week. The wild dogs were named Malia and Manny. Malia was a 14-year-old female and Manny was a 12-year-old male. According to the zoo’s release, Manny was found unresponsive in his exhibit on the evening of Tuesday,

Border Patrol agents busted a 39-year-old man at the Highway 86 Checkpoint early Monday morning after discovering 60 pounds of cocaine hidden inside the bumpers of his car. According to authorities, the man is a United States citizen and he pulled up to the checkpoint in a Ford Taurus just after 5 a.m. The suspected

UPDATED 11:35 p.m.: The driver of the sedan was identified as Robert Garcia Jr. and he was determined to be under the influence of drugs. Garcia was taken into custody and booked into the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning on several felony violations. __________________________________ One person was killed in a two vehicle collision

Over the weekend, thousands of people around the nation protested President Donald Trump’s executive order, or so-called travel ban. Signed into law on Friday, it aims to protect the nation from foreign terrorists coming into the United States. On Sunday, six Muslims in Quebec, Canada, were shot and killed- allegedly by a Muslim immigrant from

Local businesses honored at the 2017 Rammy Awards Monday night. The event was held at the Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa. Local businesses and new officers for the Rancho Mirage Chamber of Commerce were honored. 5-time boxing world champion Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley and his wife Monia, were honored with the humanitarian award. Classic Creations