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Desert Mirage High School has forfeited Thursday night’s home conference football matchup with Yucca Valley. The decision comes due to Coachella Valley Unified School District’s school closures due to air-quality concerns from the Martinez fire, which has been burning since October 14. According to CAL FIRE, the mulch fire was 50% contained as of Wednesday
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Police are investigating an armed robbery at the Little Caesars in Desert Hot Springs Tuesday night. According to the Desert Hot Springs Police Department, the robbery was reported just after 8:40 p.m. at the Little Caesars on Palm Drive, near Ironwood Drive. Police said gunshots were fired during the incident. The store’s manager told News
Continue ReadingThe City of Palm Springs honored the LGBTQ community by declaring November 1st through November 3rd as Palm Springs Pride Week. Community members and business leaders gathered together on Arenas Road, which is the largest gay nightclub block in Palm Springs to kick off the Greater Palm Springs Pride season. They commemorated the 50th anniversary
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Every month we bring you coverage of the Coachella Valley Spotlight grant. Today, we take a look at “Boo 2 Bullying.” Eye on the Desert’s Caitlin Thropay visited the nonprofit during one of their presentations to a local elementary school to see how they are using their Berger dollars. “We’ve already reached over 11,250 kids
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The Coachella Valley Unified School District announced its schools will remain closed on Wednesday due to concerns over air quality stemming from a mulch fire burning near Thermal. Statement from CVUSD Superintendent Dr. Maria G. Gandera: “As the District continues to work closely with the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) , BIA, and CalFire, we will
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News Channel 3 anchor Karen Devine was honored Sunday with a Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television, Arts, and Sciences. The award is for Karen’s 25 years+ as a broadcast journalist, most of her time spent here in the Coachella Valley delivering the news and bringing you investigative reports. She was introduced
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As students in the Coachella Valley Unified School District are kept home Wednesday from their fourth straight day of school due to an ongoing mulch fire in Thermal, teachers and school board members asked the Desert Healthcare District for assistance and resources. In the public comment portion of Tuesday night’s Desert Healthcare District board meeting,
Continue ReadingJaden Donovan is dominating from the backfield this season for the Shadow Hills Knights. But just a couple years ago Donovan wasn’t in the backfield, he was a back-up at left tackle. “When he was younger, he was a little chunkier,” Head Coach Ron Shipley said. “I was a little bit chunkier,” Donovan said. It
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The city of Coachella held it’s annual State of the City on Tuesday. Among the event highlights, they honored how city businesses have created positive economic impact in the community. The annual event was held at Spotlight 29 Casino. It’s just one way the city reviews economic activity from the previous year and introduces their
Continue ReadingOver 1500 residents of Riverside County, San Bernardino County, and areas of Los Angeles County became new United Stated citizens on Tuesday. Among the new citizens is one of our very own Telemundo reporters, Carlos Trejo. This ceremony held in Riverside at the Fox Performing arts center really made people feel official as new citizens.
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Over 1500 residents of Riverside County, San Bernardino County, and areas of Los Angeles County became new United Stated citizens on Tuesday. Among the new citizens is one of our very own Telemundo reporters, Carlos Trejo. This ceremony held in Riverside at the Fox Performing arts center really made people feel official as new citizens.
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Officials from the Desert Sands Unified School District has notified parents and staff of James Monroe Elementary School that there is structural testing going on at the campus out of an “abundance of caution.” Earlier this month, structural concerns were discovered at another DSUSD school, Madison Elementary School in Indio. This prompted the district to
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Licensed cannabis retailers, including Chansce Pittard, the manager at “Leaf El Paseo” say a primary focus right now is educating consumers. “Cannabis vaporization can be very helpful because it can help provide a fast acting result,” said Pittard. The CDC recently recommended all consumers stop vaping until researchers can pinpoint the cause of a growing
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A teenager was arrested over the weekend at the In-N-Out in La Quinta for alleged public intoxication and resisting arrest. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, on Friday at around 10:11 p.m., La Quinta deputies responded to reports of a disturbance between a “large number of subjects” at the In-N-Out on 78611 Highway 111.
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Police are seeking a suspect vehicle following a fatal hit-and-run collision in Palm Springs Monday night. The roads were shut down shortly after the collision, which was reported at 9:37 p.m. on South Palm Canyon Drive between East Mesquite Road and East Morongo Road. The roads reopened at 4:40 a.m. The victim, a man of
Continue ReadingThe United States Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to the management of an east valley mobile home park with contaminated water. The letter addresses the park’s violations and the agency’s concerns regarding the endangerment of the health of the park’s residents. On Aug. 27, the EPA issued an emergency order at the Oasis Mobile
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UPDATE 10/22/19: The Palm Springs Police Department issued a statement in regard to an error made in an interview with News Channel 3 on Monday. On Saturday, 10/19/2019, the Palm Springs Police Department started an investigation into a hate crime allegation that occurred at 1021 S. Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. Investigators learned that
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Palm Springs Unified School District has become the Valley’s first “Arts Equity District.” It means art will be accessible to students in all grade levels. One of the art programs PSUSD offers is the Boys Arts Mentoring program also known as BAM. Bam was started last year as a way to give sixth grade boys
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California is the latest state to allow people to take home and eat animals they accidentally hit on the road, including deer, elk, pronghorn antelopes and wild pigs. Senate Bill 395 was among a handful of other bills Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law last week. The bill, brought forth by Sen. Bob Archuleta, authorizes
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A teenager was arrested over the weekend at the In-N-Out in La Quinta for alleged public intoxication and resisting arrest. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, on Friday at around 10:11 p.m., La Quinta deputies responded to reports of a disturbance between a “large number of subjects” at the In-N-Out on 78611 Highway 111.
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