Riverside county has now moved to the red tier allowing personal care services, like nail salons, to open indoors with modifications. Previously, in the purple tier, nail salons were only able to operate outdoors with modifications. News Channel 3’s Taban Sharifi spoke with Lori McGlynn, the manager for Salon 119 in Palm Springs. In response
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Riverside County could advance to the next tier of reopening on Tuesday as key coronavirus metrics continue to remain below state thresholds. Watch News Channel 3 on-air & online at Noon for the state’s live announcement on which counties are reopening. The county is currently classified in the most restrictive purple tier, but county public
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The San Bernardino National Forest has officially identified the firefighter who died while battling the El Dorado Fire burning west of Palm Springs. The firefighter was Charles Morton, 39, a Big Bear Interagency Hotshot Squad Boss. Morton died on Thursday while engaged in fire suppression operations. Sharing our deepest sympathies from Chief Vicki Christiansen: “Thursday
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The State of California announced it will not accept any new unemployment claims for the next two weeks as administrators work to reduce a case backlog and prevent more fraud as more than 2 million people are out of work statewide during the coronavirus pandemic. The California Employment Development Department is halting new unemployment claims
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On Monday the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department released body cam footage of a deputy-involved shooting, after a deputy was stabbed last month in a Rancho Mirage neighborhood. The call came in at around 2:38 p.m. on August 7, after a caller reported ‘suspicious activity’ on the 70800 block of Tamarisk Lane, a neighborhood behind the
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On Tuesday, Riverside County District 5 Supervisor Jeff Hewitt will ask his colleagues to support a proposed two-month plan to lift all public health regulations that have locked down large swaths of the regional economy, resulting in thousands of job losses and other impacts that he said will be felt “for years to come.” Watch
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Signs of business activity were evident in Old Town La Quinta Monday morning. There was light traffic, with a few people walking the sidewalks. Outdoor diners were enjoying the lunch hour. Customers and business owners that spoke to News Channel 3 said they were looking forward to a possible easing of coronavirus restrictions. “I think
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An attempted murder charge was filed today against a felon accused of shooting a man inside a Palm Springs casino parking garage last week. As News Channel 3 first reported last week, Jose Arlando Gomez, 28, of Palm Springs was arrested last Tuesday on Nelson Avenue in Coachella in connection with the shooting that occurred
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A pivotal court hearing scheduled today for a woman and her boyfriend, who are accused in the death of her 22-year-old developmentally disabled twin brother, was taken off calendar due to “significant developments in the case,” a judge said. Ines Patrisia Mendez, 30, and her boyfriend, Shanen Ryan Riley, 31, were arrested in Aug. 2017
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Two months ago, the city of Palm Springs issued a notice of violation to the property owner of the proposed site of the Tova Hotel and Beach Club project in downtown. The property, located at 1875 N Palm Canyon Drive, was formerly the Garden Vista Hotel. The original plan first unveiled in 2016 was to
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Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 738 new cases since Friday. This brings the total number of cases to 57,419. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Testing 613,711 600,554 tests have been conducted so far, an increase of 13,157 tests conducted reported over the weekend. Riverside County is
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September is National Hunger Action Month and the Coachella Valley is lighting up orange to raise awareness of food insecurity. News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay met with FIND Food Bank and some of our valley’s local leaders to see how they are taking action. “It is not acceptable to have hunger in our country,” FIND
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Governor Gavin Newsom is delivering an update at noon Monday on the state of California’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. You can watch it live on News Channel 3 and in the player below: Riverside County on verge of next step in reopening According to Riverside County Public Health, we may take new steps to
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A person was killed Monday morning in a traffic collision southeast of Desert Hot Springs. Police and firefighters were called to Dillon Road just east of Johnson Road at 7:07 a.m. near the Caliente Springs Resort and Almar Acres Association. Firefighters said the injured victim was a pedestrian and died at the scene. There was
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INDIO, Calif. – As of Sunday residents living in Riverdale Estates Mobile Home Park, a senior community in Indio, were without running water. “Here we have no water since Friday evening and that’s the longest we’ve ever been like that. It’s usually within the day or midnight, it will come back,” said one resident who
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There’s a chance churches could reopen next weekend. “They can go gambling but they cannot go to church and that’s not very nice,” chairman of parish council at Saint Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church of the Desert Sonia Matossian told News Channel 3 on Sunday. Riverside County Public Health said last week there’s a possibility we
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On Saturday night CalFire Riverside County lifted the evacuation order for the Snow Creek Village community at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains in unincorporated Palm Springs. Residents were told to leave on Thursday after a fire sparked in the nearby brush when a vehicle pulled to the side of Snow Creek Road while
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Walkers and runners turned out in the valley today for a “virtual celebration” called the “Zero Prostate Cancer Run/Walk”. The event was part of a national campaign aimed at raising money for Prostate Cancer research. Several valley businesses and organizations sponsored the event including Urologic Institute, Palm Valley Pain Management, Halo Diagnostics and News Channel
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A 4.5 magnitude earthquake (preliminary M4.6) was recorded at 11:38 p.m. near South El Monte, CA. This is approximately 9.6 miles east of Los Angeles and 45.4 west of San Bernardino. This earthquake had a depth of 10.93 miles.
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Continuing coverage on the Snow Fire burning northwest of Palm Springs in the Snow Creek Canyon area. The fire is now 4,200 acres with 5 percent containment on Friday night. An evacuation order remains in place for Snow Creek along with an evacuation warning for nearby communities including Windy Point. As News Channel 3’s Dani Romero
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