With the pandemic, many local restaurants have been forced to adapt or close their doors. One local restaurant, Wally’s Desert Turtle, is going above and beyond to make sure customers can have an enjoyable, cool, outdoor experience. Wally’s Desert Turtle is a family-owned restaurant in Rancho Mirage located right off of highway 111. “We’ve been
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The new application is called “Covid Pulse”. It’s an interactive, map-based visual display, which tracks coronavirus case information at the national, state, and county level. The company behind it is Esri. Headquartered in Redlands, the company is a global player in GiS, or geographic information systems. “I feel like I can get the pulse of
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The city of Palm Desert is looking at closing a portion of El Paseo to traffic to expand outdoor dining. It’s all part of the city’s plan to help small business owners and employees. “We took about $2 million out of our economic reserve fund and gave forgiveable loans to our businesses and we put
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Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 153 new cases since Tuesday. This brings the total amount of cases up to 53,306. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Additional Data 530,475 tests have been conducted so far, an increase of 4,570 tests conducted over the past 24 hours. The
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Governor Gavin Newsom is delivering an update at noon 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: Last Friday, Newsom launched what he calls a “Blueprint for a Safer Economy.” What’s open? What’s closed? CHECK HERE. By the measurements
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The first case of MIS-C in Riverside County has been confirmed, according to county health officials. Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County Health Officer, discussed this update during his report to the Board of Supervisors Tuesday morning. The patient is only identified as a child younger than 15 years old who lives in western Riverside County. Officials
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Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 244 new cases since Monday. This brings the total amount of cases up to 53,153. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Additional Data 525,905 tests have been conducted so far, an increase of 3,197 tests conducted over the past 24 hours. The
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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: Download the News Channel 3 app for alerts on coronavirus and breaking news from the Apple Store and Google Play
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It’s ‘Spirit Week’ at Rancho Mirage Elementary School. As News Channel 3’s Madison Weil reports, teachers and kids are getting extra creative this year to show their school spirit virtually. Students and teachers from a 5th grade class at the school let News Channel 3 join in on their virtual classes via Zoom for the
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California lawmakers approved a bill Monday that would extend protections from evictions, providing some more relief for those struggling to pay rent due to the pandemic. If Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the bill, the bill would ban evictions through January. The California legislature approved the bill on Monday — it passed the Senate with a
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California hair salons and barbershops can resume indoor operations Monday, Aug. 31 under a new four-tier system unveiled Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Customers and business owners said they are happy to be back in business. Hair salons like Salon 119 in Palm Springs are back to the swing of things. “I feel crazy, I
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The campus at Palm Desert High School is relatively quiet while students continue to learn from home. But, in some classes, disruptions are happening according to an online letter Principal Dennis Zink emailed to parents Sunday. He wrote about “Zoom intrusions”, or instances when people are accessing the school’s online classes who aren’t students at
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Another type of business hurting right now because of the pandemic are yoga studios. News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay met with the owner of a yoga and a pilates studio who shares how they’re moving operations outdoors in order to survive. “We in the fitness industry and at least the boutique fitness industry feel like
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Case Changes Since Friday Riverside County reported 1,049 new cases since Friday. This brings the total amount of cases up to 52,909. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Additional Data 522,708 tests have been conducted so far, an increase of 15,992 tests conducted over the weekend. The county
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New guidelines are in place for California counties to move toward reopening. They’re designed to make the process more gradual than it was back in May. Jack Srebnik, owner of The Slice Pizzeria in Rancho Mirage, said he was expecting news Friday about reopening indoor dining, but the restrictions in Riverside County weren’t lifted under
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Martha’s Village is in need of donations from the community. This weekend people will have the opportunity to help “Stuff the Bus” full of family essentials at the Westfield Mall. Representatives say they’ll have curbside drop off bins set up at Westfield Mall off of Highway 111 in Palm Desert from 8 a.m. until 1
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Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 126 new cases since Thursday. This brings the total amount of cases up to 51,860. On Tuesday, Kim Saruwatari, the Director of the Riverside University Public Health System, announced that the county’s testing positivity rate is currently at 9.5%, just slightly above the state’s threshold of 8% but a
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WATCH LIVE: Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new color-coded system for further re-opening the state’s economy and schools. He did not announce new reopening but his adjust the criteria for reopening. The new rules announced Friday create a four-tier, color-coded system that counties will move through based on their number of cases and percentage of
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