The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to work with the state on the county’s reopening plan, which would continue to adhere to state guidelines and requires working with the California Department of Public Health on reopening some venues. Supervisors voted to direct the county staff to work with the state and the Department
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Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 129 new cases since Monday. This brings the total number of cases to 60,867. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) What’s Open In Riverside County? Restaurants indoors (max 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer)All retail indoors (max 50% capacity)Shopping centers
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“There is no good way to say it, but both our positivity rate and our case rates are still rising,” said Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County Health Officer told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday morning. “Our adjusted case rate, we are told by the state, is currently entering the purple tier again, and while we
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California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly is hosting a video news conference at noon on Tuesday to provide an update on the response to coronavirus cases. You can watch it live in the player below: Riverside County is expected to remain in the ‘red,’ or substantial tier. However, Tuesday morning, Riverside County
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The Coachella Valley has lost one of its brightest stars. BB Ingle, known as one of the desert’s top party promoters died Tuesday morning, close family friend Tracy Dietlin confirmed to News Channel 3. Ingle had been battling stage 4 prostate cancer. Ingle was always the life of the party. Because of his love of
Continue ReadingWith fewer than 30 days until Election Day, ballot drop-off locations opened Monday in Riverside County, and mail-in ballots are on their way to registered voters. (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP) (Photo by LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images) Every registered Californian will receive a ballot in the mail this year, due to the pandemic.
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Vallarta Supermarkets is set to open its first Riverside County location on Wednesday in Indio. The store at 42425 Jackson St. will open at 8 a.m. following a ribbon-cutting ceremony that Indio Mayor Glenn Miller and members of the company’s executive team are scheduled to attend. Construction on the 37,000-square-foot market began in June, and
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Regal Cinemas is temporarily suspending operations at all 536 of its theaters in the United States due to continued revenue losses from the coronavirus pandemic, its parent company Cineworld announced Monday Doors are closing once again at Regal Cinemas. “It’s sad man that’s my one thing that I do know is go to the movies,
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Last Friday President Trump announced that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19. From there it was a whirlwind of sorts, with the president’s physician saying he felt ‘fatigued,’ to the president being admitted to Walter Reed National Medical Center. Over the weekend, doctors made contradictory statements on whether the president had
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Evangelical megachurch pastor Greg Laurie was diagnosed with COVID-19 following a recent White House visit, he announced on Monday. Laurie, head of Riverside-based Harvest Christian Fellowship, tested positive for the virus Friday, according to the church. He lives in Newport Beach. Laurie had been with President Donald Trump and others for an event last week
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California voters are once again considering the issue of stem cell research. After approving spending $3 billion on the work in 2004, taxpayers are being asked for another $5.5 billion under Proposition 14. Some of the initial funding was used to create the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine which would get more money if the
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Cal Fire / Riverside County firefighters are working to contain four separate fires that are burning on the North and South side of Interstate 10 in Beaumont. The fires are burning near Pioneer Mobile Home Village at the intersection of East Sixth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, less than a quarter-mile north of I-10. Multiple engine
Continue ReadingIt’s your vote 2020 and today about 1.2 million vote-by-mail ballots are being sent out to voters in Riverside County and the state is tracking those ballots. News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay spoke with the Riverside County Registrar of Voters who tells us what every voter needs to know ahead of election night. “Every voter
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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Stepping gingerly, President Donald Trump walked out the military hospital Monday night where he has been receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19, immediately igniting a new controversy by declaring that despite his illness the nation should not fear the virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans. Back at
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Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 804 new cases since Friday. This brings the total number of cases to 60,738. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) What’s Open In Riverside County? Restaurants indoors (max 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer)All retail indoors (max 50% capacity)Shopping centers
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A second job fair for the Agua Caliente Casinos was held Monday, October 5 at the Mary Pickford Theater in Cathedral City. The casinos are still looking to fill about 250 positions. “I did get the position for full-time supervisor yes!” Stephanie Gamboa told News Channel 3. She was hired on the spot at the job fair.
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A stranded deer was rescued after falling into the Coachella Valley Canal in Indio over the weekend. According to Cal Fire Riverside, the young deer fell into the canal between Golf Center Parkway and Jackson Street on Sunday morning. The deer swam for about a quarter of a mile before crews from Cal Fire, the
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A hiker found dead over the weekend near La Quinta cove has been officially identified by the Riverside County Coroner’s Office. Thomas Stanley Teague, 46, of La Quinta was found dead Sunday morning on the mountainside near the cove area of the city. Coordinates of where Teague was located, according to the coroner’s office. According
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom nominated the first openly gay Black man to the state Supreme Court on Monday, potentially replacing one of the court’s more conservative members with a former federal civil rights attorney who prosecuted cross-burnings and police misconduct cases under President Ronald Reagan. Martin Jenkins, 66, would be the court’s
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Governor Gavin Newsom will “make a special announcement provide an update on the state’s response to the wildfires and the #COVID19 pandemic,” according to a tweet sent by his office. MORE: What you need to know about coronavirus on Monday, October 5 TODAY: Governor @GavinNewsom will make a special announcement and provide an update on
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