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Officials with California’s health insurance exchange say internal miscommunication led them to significantly overstate the number of hits the exchange’s website received on the first day people could enroll in it. Officials tell the Los Angeles Times the site received 645,000 hits on Tuesday, well below the 5 million they initially reported. Covered California spokesman

Palm Springs VillageFest, the city’s weekly street festival, will start its fall hours tonight. The festival, which is held every Thursday night on Palm Canyon Drive between Baristo and Amado roads, will start at 6 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. The event ends at 10 p.m. year-round. On Oct. 31, the annual Halloween Spook-tacular will

That wreck was first reported around 3:15 a.m. Thursday at 1897 E. Alejo Road. The crash forced a street closure on Alejo Road from Cerritos to north Sunrise due to live wires down on the road. Southern California Edision reported nearly a thousand customers were affected. They expect to have power fully restored by 5

Police said a motorist who struck and killed an Indio woman Wednesday evening was cooperating with their investigation. Marie Valenzuela, 72, of Indio died a short time after she was struck by a motorist in a silver Chrysler Sebring along Palo Verde Street at Avenue 45. The elderly woman had been pushing an elderly man

One person is confirmed dead another two are seriously injured after a crash on Washington Street and Wildcat Drive in Palm Desert. That’s just north of the freeway just south of the Del Webb main gate. The wreck was first reported just before 4:30 a.m. Thursday. Police say a 21-year-old man died. Two others, including

A red flag warning signaling a heightened risk of wildfire will be in effect throughout Riverside County this weekend. The red flag warning — the most serious fire-related warning issued by the National Weather Service — is scheduled from 2 a.m. Friday to 8 p.m. Sunday, according to the agency. A red flag warning means

While the finger-pointing over the partial government shutdown continues in Washington, people relying on federal programs are feeling the pinch. It’s estimated more than 800,000 federal workers are currently furloughed. America’s veterans have been one of the most visible groups during the shutdown. Nearly 30% of the furloughed positions are veterans. Some veterans in the

Palm Springs VillageFest, the city’s weekly street festival, will start its fall hours Thursday. The festival, which is held every Thursday night on Palm Canyon Drive between Baristo and Amado roads, will start at 6 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. The event ends at 10 p.m. year-round. On Oct. 31, the annual Halloween Spook-tacular will

The city of Palm Desert will start its free fall concert series at Civic Center Park Thursday. Concerts will be held at 7 p.m. at the park on four consecutive Thursdays in October. Tomorrow’s concert features blues rocker Kelly Moneymaker. The rest of the lineup: — Oct. 10: Amanda Castro, vintage jazz; — Oct. 17:

A battle is heating up in Palm Springs over the proposed Dolce Hotel. The 200-room hotel would be built on more than 10.5 acres and sit on a parking lot on the north side of the Palm Springs Convention Center. It will also be next to the Center Court Club, a 20-unit condo complex. Since

If you choose to sign up for the Affordable Care Act, you will want to be careful when doing so. It’s something most of us do everyday. You open up a web browser–such as Google–and type in what you’re looking for. In this case, to sign up for Obamacare. You may not know it yet,

A jury has rejected a claim that the promoter of Michael Jackson’s comeback concerts was negligent in hiring the doctor who killed the superstar with a drug overdose. The verdict was read Wednesday, roughly five months after opening statements in the case filed by Jackson’s mother. Katherine Jackson sought to hold AEG Live LLC responsible

The American Cancer Society needs you. “They chose the Coachella Valley because of the great amount of volunteers and the leadership councils here and the wonderful help from all our medical centers here,” Melissa Neiderman of the American Cancer Society Leadership Council said. The study is called Cancer Prevention Study-3, a large scale, long-term study

A “renewable energy” bus tour will visit sites in the Coachella Valley area Thursday ahead of Friday’s Southern California Energy Summit. The tour, sponsored by the Coachella Valley Water District and Renova Solar, will leave from the CVWD office in Palm Desert at 8 a.m. Thursday and make stops at the Coachella Valley branch of

A News Channel 3 / CBS Local 2 follow up on an earthquake early warning system already in development here in the Valley. Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill supporting the use of an early earthquake system to be funded by a public / private partnership. Riverside County has failed to get the funds together

Rep. Raul Ruiz says he wants a “clean bill” as he calls it, to end the government shutdown. At the same time, he was just one of 9 democrats who voted in favor of an amendment Monday night that would have delayed the mandate to buy insurance under the Affordable Care Act for one year.

The American Cancer Society is hosting a Kickoff for Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3) in Palm Springs today. The event is from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Desert Regional Medical Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center on the 3rd floor (1180 N. Indian Canyon Dr, Palm Springs). To enroll in the study, the Society needs men and

Cathedral City High School will host its annual Homecoming Parade today in Downtown Cathedral City. The event kicks off at 4:30 p.m. at the intersection of Allen and E. Palm Canyon Drive. The parade will flow into Town Square for a Pep Rally and presentation of the 2013 Homecoming Court. The rally and presentation starts

Sang Chae is a business owner with questions about how the Affordable Care Act will affect him and his employees. “There’s a lot of gray area,” Chae said the day before millions of Americans could begin enrolling for health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act. “I don’t think many of us know what’s going

The City of Palm Springs introduced an informational Web page for the Nov. 5 election. Voters can get information on City Council candidates, the Measure B tax on medical marijuana collectives, voter registration, sample ballots, vote-by-mail applications and other services at www.votepalmsprings.com. Election information is also posted on the city’s website, www.palmspringsca.gov. “It is important