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A newly released assessment shows for the first time in 15 years, 100 percent of the state of California is in some state of drought, ranging from moderate to exceptional. In the Coachella Valley people are doing their part to conserve water. At his Rancho La Quinta home, Brad Harmeyer is proud to show off

It isn’t your average desktop printer. Imagine a 3D printer that can build a body part, a house, even a gun. “It is building objects in a layer wise fashion, building things layer by layer,” said Behrokh Khoshnevis, a USC professor of industrial and systerms engineering who has been experimenting with 3D printing technology for

Stage coach isn’t the only music festival in town this weekend. Desert Daze is back in Mecca for the second consecutive year and the third consecutive year in the Coachella Valley. The lesser known one day festival takes place tomorrow at the Sunset Ranch Oasis in Mecca, off South Lincoln near Avenue 66. Festival director

On Friday, Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach wrote a check to pay the county back for using a county car to put up campaign signs. This stems from acellphone videoof Zellerbach and one of his aides allegedly tampering with his opponent Mike Hestrin’s campaign sign. The question remains tonight did Zellerbach break the law,

Abel Garcia spends most of his days lately shoveling sand. “We have to clean it everyday. Nothing worse than sand in your house,” Garcia said. The street he lives on, Robert Road in Thousand Palms, has sand everywhere – three to four inches of sand piling up creating sand walls, hiding front lawns. “The sand

Muy pronto no se permitir el uso de las bolsas de plstico en la ciudad de Palm Springs. Ya no se proporcionarn en las instalaciones de la ciudad ni en eventos patrocinados por la misma. Tampoco se permitir el uso de las bolsas de plstico en los mercados empezando el 3 de noviembre. Las tiendas

It isn’t your average desktop printer. Imagine a 3D printer that can build a body part, a house or even a gun. The revolutionary technology is already being used in the Coachella Valley and is being pioneered in the southland. News Channel 3 took an inside look at how 3D printers work and what they

“You don’t want the person enforcing the law to be breaking the law so I think more needs to be revealed,” said Mitch Earl, a registered voter from Glendale, California. As voters tried to make sense of Wednesday’s controversial video leak, another video surfaced. This time District Attorney Paul Zellerbach confirms he did in fact

A La Quinta man has been arrested after police charged him with robbing a 1st Bank in Palm Desert over the weekend at 73000 Highway 111. Authorities caught up to 28-year-old Joshua Franklin Wehe five days after the robbery occurred. According to police, the suspect handed one of the bank tellers a note demanding money

A federal jury has found that Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputies did not cause the death of a mentally disturbed man who died in 2010 after being restrained, attorneys said Friday. Carole Krechman brought the lawsuit against the county and four of its deputies, alleging constitutional violations and negligence on behalf of her late son,

The Hemet Police Department arrested the second teenager suspected of severely beating an elderly woman at a senior living center while burglarizing her apartment. Detectives located 14-year-old Raymond Michael Miranda in Temecula Thursday night after launching a search for the teenager, according to a statement from the Hemet Police Department. Miranda was arrested and taken

UC Riverside Chancellor Kim Wilcox Thursday announced an ambitious plan to expand faculty payrolls by 300 and build new facilities to complement the campus’s growth. During an address before a crowd estimated at about 1,000 gathered for Wilcox’s “Investiture Ceremony,” the chancellor touted UCR as a “model for academic excellence” and predicted the university would

A Beaumont man was arrested on Tuesday night in connection to a stabbing incident. Deputies with the Cabazon Station were called to the 10500 block of El Monte Drive just before 5 p.m. They found a woman who was stabbed and sexually assaulted. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said the woman was taken to the

Target, Nordstrom and other big chains are literally pinning their hopes of attracting shoppers on social media. Retailers increasingly are using Pinterest, a social media site that allows users to create collections of photos, articles, recipes, videos and other images that are called “pins,” to draw business to their own sites. Popular items on Pinterest

A strong and cold area of low pressure will bring strong and gusty winds to Southern California through the weekend, with chances for rain and snow above 5000 feet. Isolated thunderstorms are possible early Saturday as well. Strong and gusty winds will pick up Friday afternoon and are forecasted to remain strong through most of

Prosecutors, lawmakers and police are meeting to plot a plan to eradicate human sex trafficking in California and across the nation. The symposium is being hosted by the YWCA Greater Los Angeles today at the Museum of Tolerance in the city. YWCA spokeswoman Cynthia Heard says the event is a groundbreaking gathering to examine the

The 25th annual White Party, billed by organizers as the world’s largest gay dance and music festival, begins today in Palm Springs. “What began as a gathering for 300 of my closest friends celebrating the rites of spring 25 years ago, has evolved into 30,000 men from across the world coming together,” said founder and

The city of Palm Springs is setting dates to phase out plastic bags at retailers. The city first wants businesses to use their current inventory and phase in reusable bags. Enforcement dates for large stores begin November. 3 Small stores such as convenience and liquor stores would see the new restrictions May 3 of 2015.

We’re staying on top of the developing story concerning Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach and allegations he tampered with his opponent’s campaign signs. Zellerbach admits to knocking down his challenger’s campaign sign claiming he did it by accident. That’s just the beginning of the story. We found out about the incident after obtaining grainy

Unlike the Coachella Music Festival, car camping or camping in a tent is not an option at this weekend’s Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio. However, festival goers can stay on the grounds if they’ve purchased a spot to park an RV. At the corner of Madison Street and Avenue 52, country music fans in