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Canadian visitors to the Coachella Valley will be able to fly to the desert nonstop this winter, thanks to seasonal service announced by an Air Canada subsidiary. Air Canada rouge flights from Toronto to Palm Springs International Airport will operate on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays between Dec. 14 and April 16, 2017. “Air Canada is

People up and down on California are using less water, and still their water bills may be going up, including right here in the Coachella Valley. UC Riverside’s Palm Desert campus hosted a forum on regional water rates where speakers shared why water bills are getting higher, despite cutting water use. Rates will rise specifically

A teenager was arrested on charges of attempted burglary for allegedly trying to break into a 29 Palms home on Wednesday. A witness said he saw someone kicking the front door of a home in the 5500 block of Baileya Avenue. The suspect wasn’t able to kick-in the door and ran from the area before

Authorities say an East Bay man has been arrested on suspicion of a hate crime for burning a rainbow flag at a church. KNTV reports Thursday that the crime occurred at the Clayton Valley Presbyterian Church and is part of recent vandalism surrounding the flag. Parishioner Dale Scovill says the flag has been taken down

The board that oversees California’s high-speed rail project will meet Thursday to consider its latest plan, which proposes dramatic changes to the route. The latest proposal calls for a $64 billion system that sends the high-speed rail line from Central California to San Jose rather than to the Los Angeles area first as initially planned.

They can happen almost anywhere, at anytime. “We start feeling it shake, and that’s about the only warning that most people get,” Rancho Mirage Emergency Service Coordinator Britt Wilson said. “You might here a slight rattle of some of the glass, and then you know it’s coming.” But researchers in California have developed a new

Another opening weekend of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival has wrapped up, but not without incident. The Indio Police Department reports a total of 128 arrests were made, up from 93 in the festival’s first weekend of 2015. Weekend One Arrest Statistics One thing officers are cracking down on this year is underage

Un ecuatoriano sobrevivi el peor terremoto en dcadas bebiendo su propia orina mientras su esposa ya tena listo el atud porque lo daba por muerto. Se trata de Pablo Crdova, de 51 aos, quien estaba trabajando el sbado en un hotel en Portoviejo, Ecuador, cuando el edificio se le desplom encima por el devastador terremoto.

Update: Senator Bernie Sanders will not be attending ‘Berniechella’ or the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Regional Press Secretary Vivek Kembaiyan told KESQ & CBS Local 2 Wednesday afternoon. Kembaiyan also noted that his campaign isn’t involved with Berniechella. According to berniesanders.com, there are no mentions of the Democratic presidential candidate visiting the Coachella

Donald Trump y Hillary Clinton ganaron el martes con facilidad sus respectivas elecciones primarias en Nueva York. El multimillonario se recuper de una difcil racha en la contienda republicana y la ex secretaria de Estado se puso ms cerca de asegurar la candidatura demcrata. La victoria de Trump en Nueva York dio impulso psicolgico a

Jack Lew, secretario del Tesoro, anunci que Alexander Hamilton permanecer en el billete de $10 dlares y que Andrew Jackson ceder su lugar en el de $20 a la activista proderechos civiles, Harriet Tubman. Esta es la primera ocasin en la que una mujer ocupa tal lugar. Tubman fue una activa lder abolicionista, quien por

When the buzzer sounds, this run down garage turns into a boxing gym for Olympic hopefuls. Local boxers are fighting to keep the doors of the Thermal Boxing Club open for young fighters training for free for their professional careers. Ralph Romero ran the gym and the Desert Showdown regional boxing event held at the

Police arrested a Palm Springs man on Monday afternoon following a one-month investigation into a home burglary in Rancho Mirage. The burglary happened on March 10 on Porto Cielo Court. During the investigation, deputies in Palm Desert identified the suspect as 31-year-old Teddy Kaiser Hartwell, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The Palm Desert

The Sunline Transit Agency and The Living Desert are both hosting Earth Day events on Friday. Sunline is celebrating Earth Day by offering free rides all day in the Coachella Valley. The free rides are joined with the commissioning of the agency’s new solar system installation, which will take place at 10 a.m. Friday. Sunline

Customers across the Coachella Valley are still having problems with their phone, Internet, and television following Frontier Communications taking over for Verizon about three weeks ago. They’re not alone. Complaints are wide spread in California, Florida, and Texas. Over at S.O.S Resale Boutique and Veteran’s Communication Center in Palm Desert the owners of the nonprofit

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a small earthquake in the mountains near Idyllwild early Wednesday morning. The USGS initially reported the magnitude as 3.2, but downgraded it to 2.9 afterward. The quake was centered 6.2 miles south-southwest of Idyllwild, and 7.5 miles north-northwest of Anza. It was reported at 4:41 a.m. There were no reports

Ayer a las 5:30 p.m. agentes del Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside respondieron al reporte de un incidente de violencia domstica en la manzana 26-800 de Dollar Road en Indio Hills. Cuando los uniformados llegaron un sujeto intent huir a pie iniciando una persecucin policaca por espacio de seis minutos, apoyados por aire

Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH has officially announced plans to open a new store in Palm Desert at El Paseo Square, located at the intersection of El Paseo Boulevard and San Pablo Avenue. KESQ and CBS Local 2 first reported the store possibly coming to Palm Desert, but it was made official Wednesday morning. The

A man with a felony warrant out for his arrest is in custody after he was taken down by a police K-9 during a foot pursuit in the Indio Hills community. Authorities identified the man as 31-year old Jesus Beltran of Pacoima, CA. Sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call in the 26-800 block

A parolee accused of shooting his girlfriend and leaving her body in a car that was abandoned on a Perris roadway pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and other charges. Martin Jason Estrada, 41, of Desert Hot Springs was arrested in February following a Riverside County sheriff’s investigation into the slaying last fall of 45-year-old