September is Hunger Action Month and FIND Food Bank is one of the 200 Feeding America regional food banks in the nation. FIND partners with 16 local businesses throughout the Coachella Valley to help fight hunger in the desert, including Perfect Pint in Palm Desert, Birba, and Eight4Nine in Palm Springs. The city of Palm Desert
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Cal Fire Spokesperson, Jay Smiths tell us the Fairview Fire is historic because it’s one of the only fires that has been directly impacted by a tropical storm. “They can’t remember a time where we’ve had a fire like this. It’s getting influenced by a tropical storm, so it’s quite rare in this area. I
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Almost five years until today, a flood washed out the roads of Safari Mobile Home Park. In August 2021, the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District completed a design for a flood drain system. There was an issue trying to gain materials at the time. Still, they are installing a 108-inch diameter Reinforced
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N Indian Canyon has been shut down from Sunrise Parkway to Garnet Avenue in Palm Springs due flooding. We’re currently in a First Alert Weather Alert as tropical moisture from Tropical Storm Kay moves into Southern California. A Flood Watch went into effect at 8:00 a.m. across Southern California. Have you downloaded the ‘KESQ First Alert’ app
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Highway 74 has been reopened from Highway 243 in Mountain Center to Big Horn, CalTrans announced. Update 4: SR-371 from the 79 to the 74, all open! SR-74 reopened from 243/74 (Mountain Center) all the way to Bighorn Dr (going to Palm Desert)SR-74 will still be closed from Borco St (Hemet) to 243/74 (Mountain Center)
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Several local cities/communities are without power as a storm hits the Coachella Valley Friday afternoon. As of Thursday evening, there are three outages in Indio leaving thousands without power. POWER OUTAGE: We are currently experiencing a power outage affecting 217 customers in Indio. The area affected is from Shadow Palm Ave. to Avenida Del Mar.
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Palm Springs Fire Department – Remembrance ceremony at 9/11 memorial at 5:20 a.m.The Palm Springs Fire Department will live up to our promise and gather in remembrance of the tragic loss of lives on Sept 11, 2001. Personnel will gather at 5:20 a.m. in front of our 9/11 Memorial, located at 300 North El Cielo.
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Update 09/19/22 News Channel 3 has learned that the child’s grandmother Hilaria Rangel, 55, and mother Vanessa Rangel, 37, were charged with murder and child endangerment of four more children, ages 6, 9, 11, and 13. Court documents obtained by News Channel 3 show a third woman, identified as Miriam Silva, is also charged with
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A convicted sex offender accused of killing a previously convicted murderer in a downtown Riverside jail cell was charged today with murder. Rodney Ronald Sanchez, 61, was arrested inside the Robert Presley Detention Center Tuesday following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the death of his cellmate, 41-year-old Kaushal Niroula. Sanchez made his initial
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Firefighters battling the Fairview fire had to pause operations overnight in order to rescue people from inside the evacuation order zone, News Channel 3 has learned. Some residents decided to stay inside their homes even into the third day of evacuation orders, reported Justin McGough, Day Operations Branch Chief on the Fairview Incident. The residents
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Evacuation warning and orders have spread rapidly, even reaching parts of Temecula and Anza. Many Anza residents weren’t expecting it come their way. Emotions were running high, as the flames bring them memories of the Cranston fire that came close a few years back. “It’s just awful, I just hope we don’t have to go
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Update 8:30 p.m Thursday The fire has been downgraded to 1,088 acres after updated mapping. Containment of the fire jumped to 40% Update 1:15 p.m. Thursday As of 1:00 pm, all evacuation orders put in place for the Radford Fire have been downgraded to EVACUATION WARNINGS, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Dept. The fire remains at
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Queen Elizabeth II was the UK’s longest-serving monarch. She passed away today at 96, after reigning for 70 years. The royal family came together at her Balmoral Castle in Scotland and officially announced her death. A local man, Tony Brueggemans, recounts his memories of the Queen as she and Prince Philip visited a Villa in
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Watch the full interview with Anne Rowe, director of heritage for Sunnylands, below: Sunnylands is extending its condolences to the royal family and the people of the United Kingdom on the death of Queen Elizabeth II. She and her husband Prince Philip visited the famous Annenberg estate in Rancho Mirage back in 1983 during their
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Governor Gavin Newsom has proclaimed a state of emergency for Riverside County due to the Fairview Fire. The governor’s announcement comes a day after Riverside County proclaimed a local emergency due to the Fairview Fire. The Fairview Fire has burned over 23,000 acres as of Thursday afternoon. Get Continuing Updates on the Fairview Fire Here
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Fire crews battled fresh, dry brush sparking up on the frontlines of the Fairview Fire Thursday as acreage increased dramatically, more than doubling from one day prior. “We had a shift in the wind patterns for the last couple days, so we did have a growth last night,” said CalFire Public Information Officer Jay Smith.
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Update 9/8/22 4:30 p.m. The kitchen at Colonel Mitchell Paige Mitchell School was given a perfect score of 100 and an “A” rating, following an inspection by the Department of Environmental Health Thursday morning. DSUSD announced that Inspector Dana Covos with the Department of Environmental Health found no areas of contamination or uncleanliness anywhere on
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By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a symbol of stability in a turbulent era that saw the decline of the British empire and embarrassing dysfunction in her own family, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. The palace announced she died
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Three teens were arrested today in an alleged connection to two Coachella robberies and a stolen vehicle. An 18-year-old from Riverside, an 18-year-old from Indio, and a 14-year-old juvenile were arrested Thursday morning after a pair of robberies in Coachella, Sgt. Edward Soto of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department told City News Service. Soto said
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An inmate was found dead at Robert Presley Detention Center Wednesday night. According to Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, deputies assigned to the detention center responded to the cell of a unresponsive male inmate at about 6:53 P.M. Jail medical staff immediately began life-saving measures, which was continued by Riverside City Fire and American Medical Response
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