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LA QUINTA – State lawmakers are still working on a deal to improve California’s aging and substandard water system. But it’s already being done here in the desert. The Coachella Valley Water District has unveiled its third major ground water replenishment facility,named after a former water district General Manager Thomas Levy. In his 30 years

PALM DESERT – Julie Hendrix says she had to protect her 2 nieces from hundreds of fans who invaded Westfield Shopping Town to see the rap group “New Boyz.” “Everybody came running and pushing and jumping,” says Hendrix. U-92, who helped organize the event, says security was lacking for the event. Organizers originally expecting a

PALM SPRINGS – The story of a 6-year-old boy and a loose balloon caught the nation’s attention last week. The boy wasn’t hurt but new questions are being asked, this time of child welfare, in light of police statements that the whole thing was a hoax. “There may be emotional abuse in the sense that

PALM SPRINGS – The City of Palm Springs hosted an electric car and neighborhood rally Wednesday night to encourage people to go green. It’s part of “Your Sustainable City Week,”andKESQ News Channel 3 is a sponsor of the event. Residents checked out the latest in electric cars and the best ways to go green. Throughout

RIVERSIDE – One election watchdog group claims they found the secret computer codes for local electronic voting machines. They’ve posted these codes on the internet for everyone to see. But, the voting machine company and Riverside County election officials say the voting machines remain safe. Electronic voting has long been controversial. Instead of paper ballots,

PALM DESERT – Inside schools, germs spread fast. “I tend to call it the petri-dish effect,” says Michaeleen Prest, Desert Sands Unified School District Lead Nurse. “They are close together and it grows together.” Before it grows out of control, Desert Sands Unified School District leaders meet every morning to discuss the latest Swine Flu

CATHEDRAL CITY – Firefighters mopped up hot spots Wednesday morning as they looked for the cause ofafire that gutted an unfinished home in Cathedral City. The fire erupted shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday night on the 37000 block of Whispering Palms Trail. All available city firefighters rushed to the scene, and Palm Springs firefighters provided

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PALM SPRINGS – The motorcycle industry is zooming past the nation’s economic crisis. business is booming, but it’s also changing. There’s a new audience, new prices, and new equipment. A lot of the new stuff is geared toward women, the motorcycle world’s latest addition. “We all got tired of sitting home while the men took

CATHEDRAL CITY – Detectives are using Monday to searchfor a man accused of breaking into the home of his ex-wife and then violently attacking her. It happened just before 8:30Friday morning on the 69100 block of Converse in Cathedral City. Officers say 36 year-old Manuel Gambino broke into the home of his ex-wife, dragged her

By: Elyse Miller News Channel 3 Reporter emiller@kesq.com This weekend was ” American Heat” bike week in downtown Palm Springs. Thousands of bikers filled the streets. Police were are also out in full force making sure motorcycle riders follow the rules and drive safe. The Palm Desert Police Department held a specialized motorcycle safety operation

SACRAMENTO – California’s unemployment rate remained steady at 12.2 percent in September. In its report Friday, the state Employment Development Department says about 39,300 Californians lost jobs last month, compared to 12,000 job losses in August. Declines were across the economy, including construction, manufacturing, finance, professional services, leisure, health, education and government. California’s unemployment rate

PALM DESERT – College of the Desert held a school-wide earthquake drill on Thursday, staying in line with the Great California Shakeout. About 3,000-4,000 students across the campus got under their desks, held on and waited for instructions. For the drill, there is no real surprise or ground movement. Instead, the purpose is to shake

CATHEDRAL CITY – On Wednesday just before 11a.m. a mother dropped off a newborn baby girl ata Cathedral City Fire Station. The station is part of a large statewide network of safe surrender sites. The mother, under the 2000 Safe Haven Bill signed into law by former Governor Davis, allows mothers to drop off a

PALM SPRINGS – As school budgets continue to be cut, educators hold on to a proposition protecting funds from going *too* low. “Proposition 98 guarantees our schools receive a minimum amount of funding,” says Palm Springs CTA President Bev Bricker. “That’s about 40 percent of the state’s general fund revenue.” But, those funds were almost

A woman was hospitalized with serious injuries she suffered when she was assaulted today in her home, and a search was under way for her ex-husband, police said. The victim was found in the 69100 block of Converse Road around 8:30 a.m. and taken to Eisenhower Medical Center, where she was listed in serious condition,

BEAUMONT – A small earthquake hit an area of northern Riverside County Friday, according to a preliminary report from the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck at 3:03 a.m. with a magnitude of 3.5, according to the computer-generated report. Its epicenter was 4 miles north-northeast of Beaumont and 5 miles northwest of Banning.