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Local businesses continue to struggle as the stay at home order remains in place. The city of Palm Springs is working to help businesses impacted by the shutdown by launching a new COVID-19 financial aid hotline: (760) 323-8273.  Businesses can also email psadvisor@palmspringsca.gov. We’re told people can call or email seven days a week and

In 2020, most small businesses were told to close doors or limit customers. Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed $4 billion in state spending to help them survive 2021.  Newsom is expected to release his new budget proposal on Friday. However, on Tuesday he offered a preview of the new state spending aimed at creating jobs

Local funeral homes are operating near capacity as they struggle to keep up with a high number of deaths in a short time related to the coronavirus pandemic. News Channel 3’s Dani Romero has more on how it has become taxing on everyone.   “We couldn’t have the church service, we couldn’t have this, we couldn’t

For Jeff Taylor, a Palm Springs resident, the coronavirus pandemic is not his first. He’s a survivor of the 1980s AIDS crisis, too. “It’s kind of the same thing, deja vu all over again,” Taylor said. “I’m alive because of the advances in science in the HIV pandemic so I’m a true believer in better living from chemistry.” Taylor is considered immunocompromised.

Riverside County officially surpassed 200,000 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic in March. We are now the 8th county to reach 200,000 cases in the United States, just behind Dallas County. Cases as of Jan. 4 It took Riverside County less than a month to double its amount of cases. The county reached

As vaccine distribution continues at Riverside County hospitals, officials say about 50% of local healthcare workers have declined the vaccine so far.  Hospital and public officials met last week  to strategize how best to distribute the un-used doses. Vaccine doubts swirling among health care workers comes as a surprise to researchers who assumed hospital staff

A local family is in mourning after the tragic coronavirus-related death of a pregnant mother of five on Christmas Day. Just a week before before her death, Maria Elena Vargas had just turned 35th birthday and was 7-months pregnant with her sixth child on the way. Maria Elena Vargas Vargas’s younger sister, Clarissa, spoke exclusively

New Cases (Since Thursday, Dec. 31) As it stands with the glitch, Riverside County reported 17,683 new cases since Thursday, bringing the total to 198,236. The county did not publish data over the holiday and weekend. On Thursday, the county also reported a glitch in gathering cases, this has since been resolved. The Coachella Valley