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Some Southern California Edison customers did not receive their paper bills for the month of June, meaning their next bill will now include two months worths of payments due. Sally Jeun, a spokesperson for SCE, told News Channel 3 that the company experienced a technical issue in the process of updating software used to collect
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Riverside County public health officials say 75 percent of people who test positive for coronavirus in the county are unwilling or unable to share information with county contact tracers about people they’ve had contact with outside their homes. “The way we get through this is with containing the disease and a key point of that
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Marco Trujillo, 36 of La Quinta, was arrested after deputies say he stole the Q from a La Quinta street sign and vandalized a nearby animal hospital and restaurant Tuesday night. A spokesperson for the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department writes that the incident first started when deputies were responding to an alarm call at the
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An 85-year-old man accused of hitting two pedestrians while driving drunk in Palm Springs, leaving one with fatal injuries, then fleeing the scene, will stand trial for murder and other charges, a judge ruled today. Palm Springs resident Leroy Silva is accused in a crash that left Connie Clark of Lemon Grove fatally injured on
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The next season of the hit ABC series, “The Bachelorette” may be filmed in the Coachella Valley. The next season of the Bachelorette is rumored to be filming exclusively at the La Quinta Resort & Club. Steve Carbone, aka Reality Steve, a blogger focused on the Bachelor/Bachelorette, first reported on June 26 that the show
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Police said a bicyclist was struck and killed in Desert Hot Springs Wednesday morning by a hit-and-run driver. Police and medics were called to Two Bunch Palms Trail and Cholla Drive at 5:40 a.m. They found a 43-year-old man on a bike who had been struck by a vehicle and was pronounced dead at the
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Riverside County reported a total of 856 new cases on Wednesday, the highest day-to-day increase in confirmed cases since the pandemic started. Today’s increase brought the total number of cases up to 21,957. Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari told the board of supervisors on Tuesday that the county’s positivity rate is at around 15.9%, nearly
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If you have been having issues at a local Bank of America, you’re not alone. Bank of America has closed some of its locations temporarily. Many residents have reached out to News Channel 3 about this concern along with the trouble of using the ATM machines. Danny Nelson is one Bank of America customer we
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A deadly virus targeting domestic and wild rabbits that was detected in Palm Springs in May has now spread to San Bernardino, Orange and San Diego counties, state wildlife officials confirmed. Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHDV2) is not related to the novel coronavirus and does not affect humans or domestic animals other than rabbits. “A dead
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One person has been reportedly shot in Desert Hot Springs late Wednesday morning. According to Desert Hot Springs Police Chief Jim Henson, they got a call around 11:20 a.m. of a possible gunshot victim. They arrived to the area of the 68-100 block of Calle Las Tiendas and found one person suffering from a gunshot,
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A man on death row for fatally stabbing a black transient in a racially motivated attack near a Palm Springs restaurant has died from what state officials said today appear to be complications of the coronavirus, which has infected about one-third of San Quentin prison inmates. David John Reed, 60, died Tuesday at an outside
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“Hell show,” that’s how one doctor at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage describes what’s happening there right now with coronavirus. Dr. Rick Loftus wrote that he wakes up with nightmares every morning, that the situation with coronavirus is getting worse every day, and that people not taking the virus seriously is costing lives. His lengthy,
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Governor Gavin Newsom is delivering an update at noon Wednesday on the state of California’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Watch it live on News Channel 3 and here when he begins to speak: During a news conference ahead of the July 4 holiday weekend, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state is ordering the
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Finding your special someone is not always easy especially now during the coronavirus pandemic. News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay spoke to a local dating expert on ways to navigate dating in a pandemic. “One of my favorite quotes is, ‘You don’t have to see the whole staircase to take the first step,’ that’s a quote
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Members of the national coronavirus task force are expected to hold a briefing Wednesday morning to detail the latest updates on the federal response to the outbreak. It’s expected to start at 8:30 a.m. PT. Watch it live here when it starts : Vice President Mike Pence is expected to lead the briefing. In California,
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The Palm Springs Unified School District’s school board approved proposed plans for the upcoming school year Tuesday evening as the district takes a more deliberate approach to finalize a back-to-school plan. What classrooms will look like for students in a couple of months is one of the biggest decisions our valley districts have to make
Continue Reading Kim Saruwatari explains contact tracing from RUHS Public Health on Vimeo. Riverside County health officials are putting the word out and asking people who have tested positive for coronavirus to provide critically needed information when they are contacted by contact tracers. Kim Saruwatari, director of Riverside County Public Health, told the Board of Supervisors on
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On Tuesday morning Palm Springs police officers arrested a man accused of vandalizing the James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center building at Desert Highland Park. The walls were filled with graffiti directed at the LGBT community as well as various races. “This center is the center of our community. For someone to come out
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Althea Edwards is the owner of “Cute ‘N’ Edgee” Hair Salon in Cathedral City. In business since 2011, she says she serves clients of all races, young and old. “So for me to own a business and still be standing and doing what I love is awesome,” said Edwards. The Desert Hot Springs resident says
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The Indio Senior center had their first care package giveaway in June where they gave out 500 packages to seniors. This month, Indio Senior Center is hosting their second community care package giveaway for seniors. They are hosting a drive-by event for seniors 55 years of age and older from 6 a.m. – 9 a.m.
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