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The City of Palm Springs will continue to move forward with a parking study to determine possible changes to its current strategy in the downtown area, but the installation of parking meters is not under consideration. Mayor Jeffrey Bernstein said he attended a meeting this week held by the business group Main Street Palm Springs
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The American Legion is a nonprofit organization that serves veterans, service members, and the community. The Legion hosts a variety of programs, including a notable high school baseball league. American Legion Baseball has been around for nearly 100 years and has produced hundreds of Major League players. After years of popularity prior to the 1980s,
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It’s that time of year when students head back to the classroom! Thanks to warming temperatures, however, it’s getting harder and harder to keep students and teachers cool in school. More energy is being used by schools to cool off their buildings. One of the ways we can calculate this is by tracking cooling degree
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Dew points are in the 50s! Enjoy the break for now, as the deeper moisture is focused east of the Coachella Valley. We won’t experience a true desert dry heat, but it is a nice change from the soupy environment we felt Wednesday. By Saturday, moisture will return to Southern California, presenting the opportunity for
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The Cathedral City Council voted unanimously to place the Cathedral City Services Measure on the November 2024 ballot at the regular meeting on July 24. If approved by Cathedral City voters, the measure would add ½ cent to the existing transaction and use (sales) tax until ended by voters, providing a source of local funds
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A massive diesel fuel spill of approximately 2,500 gallons resulting from a collision between two commercial big rigs closed two lanes of traffic on the San Bernardino (10) Freeway today in Banning. Firefighters responded at 1:35 a.m. Thursday to the eastbound freeway near Hargrave Street, where they found downed power lines and the two big
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The Center for Employment Training in Coachella is honoring farmworkers on National Farm Worker Appreciation Day. According to CVWD’s estimations, agriculture is the “second largest contributor to the local economy,” They estimate it contributes nearly $1 billion to the local economy and creates approximately 12,000 jobs. While farmworkers are essential to the wellbeing of our
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The humidity and dew points are significantly lower this morning as we round out the week. In fact in most Valley cities we’ve seen a twenty degree decrease in those dew points compared to yesterday. That monsoonal moisture has retreated back to the east for a bit, but by Saturday we’re expecting some of that
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Updated post 8/7 at 10:40 p.m. Power has been restored at the Parkview Mobile Estates. Thursday night, Southern California Edison released a statement to News Channel 3: “Customers had service through generators at 11 p.m. last night. There was a brief outage overnight while SCE crews replaced and connected transformers, and all customers had their
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Desert Hot Springs is one of four teams in the new Sun Valley League this year, and the Golden Eagles are confident that they can win the title. “We’re looking to hang our first league banner for football; school has never done that,” Golden Eagles head coach Roy Provost said. “We really tried and put our best
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Hurricane Debby became the fourth named storm and the second hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season over the past weekend. It became a hurricane less than twelve hours before making landfall near Steinhatchee, Florida as a category 1 storm. The average date of formation of the second Atlantic hurricane is August 26th. It happened on
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The City of Palm Springs is introducing a new digital gift card program this summer to bring revenue to local businesses. To kick the program off, the city is offering a 50% match on all card purchases, meaning, if you buy a $50 gift card, the city will give you an extra $25 dollars. According
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The Coachella Valley Rescue Mission (CVRM) is setting up for its annual Backpack Bonanza, scheduled for Aug. 14 at 7 a.m., and the organization is encouraging community members to donate school supplies now. CVRM shared that 29% of Coachella Valley children live below the poverty line, and because of this statistic, there is a goal
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Coachella Valley residents weren’t able to feel the shaking from yesterday’s magnitude-5.2 earthquake that struck roughly 20 miles from Bakersfield. But some of the people who were affected received an early warning from the MyShake mobile app. The app, which is created by the University of California, Berkeley, began development in 2011. The university partners
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Senate Bill 932 was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2022 and requires counties and cities throughout the state to identify high-injury streets and intersections in their General Plan and prioritize safety improvements to reduce traffic collisions by January 1, 2025. News Channel 3 reached out to officials with every city in the
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Dew point temperatures are very elevated across the Coachella Valley. Palm Springs had a peak dew point of 75° during the 6 o’clock hour this morning. That resembles what’s more frequently felt in Miami than in Palm Springs. This is quite ‘soupy’ by our desert standards. Relief is on the way! It will still be
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Palm Springs Unified School District is back to school today! Thousands of students will begin their school year this morning, from kindergartners to High Schoolers. The district has been preparing for the 2024-2025 year all summer, and they’ve had facility on 28 school campuses for weeks. Palm Springs Unified prides themselves on their academic excellence,
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