Hundreds of thousands of Californians continue to wait to get unemployment benefits that they are owed. Valley resident Nicky Faeth was one of them. “I felt like I was a guinea pig and I went through all of the hurdles in order to just make things happen,” Faeth says. Faeth found out her benefits had
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A different kind of desert is emerging across the valley affecting families from nearly every background and experts warn if things don’t change soon the problem will continue to get much worse. Even before the pandemic, finding good child care was a challenge for many parents. but things got much tougher.. when many day care
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When the Oak View Group recently broke ground on the new, $300-million privately-funded arena, it did so on land owned by the Berger Foundation. The private, non-profit foundation decided to lease the 43-acre-site to Oak View Group after the company’s partnership with the Agua Caliente tribe to build an arena in downtown palm springs dissolved.
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Drive-thru ordering surged over the last year as the pandemic closed indoor dining and made customers wary of going into restaurants. Now, many fast-food chains are ramping up investments to make drive-thru lanes more efficient. But in Palm Desert, drive-thrus remain a sensitive issue. For years they’ve been banned on Highway 111 but now is
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In 2019, the I-Team uncovered documents that showed the president of the Humane Society of the Desert was reimbursed tens of thousands of dollars after making charges to credit cards issued to the nonprofit. Including luxury hotel stays, meals at local restaurants, a Louis Vuitton purse and even cosmetic surgery. Malinda Bustos was suspended and
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The costs continue to mount for Riverside County over a year into the pandemic. News Channel 3 obtained records showing a list of contracts executed under emergency contracting authority because of the pandemic. The county had spent over $137 million through the end of April of this year. The Assistant Director of Riverside County Public
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During Thursday’s Palm Desert city council meeting, councilmember Karina Quintanilla discussed what she calls a desperate need for a new human-rights commission. “After having some very impassioned conversations with residents and also with Mayor Kelly about some very unsettling experiences that were held by families of color in the city of Palm Desert,” Quintanilla said.
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It’s one of the biggest and most expensive projects the Coachella Valley has ever seen. Construction is underway on 43-acres of unincorporated land near Palm Desert just north of the I-10 freeway next to the Classic Club Golf Course. Renderings show what the $300-million, privately-funded arena is expected to look like once it’s completed by
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CV Link construction is plowing ahead around the Coachella Valley to the tune of more than $52 million dollars. That’s more than half the project’s total cost. In late March, News Channel 3 showed you a groundbreaking event at the border of Indio and La Quinta where a new CV Link bridge will soon connect
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Riverside County is working to open communications with the City of Palm Springs after Police Chief Bryan Reyes blasted a program that places homeless people who need to quarantine in a hotel in the city. In March, Reyes raised concerns after finding out about the program that places at-risk homeless people, some who are released
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We’re getting a clearer picture of the damage done to the Coachella Valley’s economy, one year after the beginning of multiple shutdowns. Tonight Karen Devine goes indepth in her I-Team report “One Year in Lockdown” to show you how billions of dollars have been lost in tourism revenue, a shrinking workforce and the uncertainty of
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A lot of Coachella Valley students are failing or barely getting by in their classes during these times of distance learning. And when it comes to D’s and F’s in school, there’s a very good chance your kid might be getting them. Report cards are giving educators a concrete indicator of just how much learning
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A clash between riverside county’s top elections official and the county district attorney over the security of ballots. In emails and letters uncovered by the I-Team, the Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer accuses District Attorney Mike Hestrin of voter suppression during the recent election. Spencer wrote in an email to the board of supervisors in
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The state agency that pays out unemployment-insurance to millions of Californians has admitted that losses during the pandemic could climb into the tens of billion dollars. The i-team has heard from dozens of viewers outraged with how the unemployment department, or EDD, has left them hanging with confusing applications, jammed phone-lines and payments that never
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The Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival would have opened Friday for its 75th anniversary. This year’s fair is canceled because of the pandemic and now there are questions about the long term future of the fair. The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved $1.6 million in funding for the fairgrounds in November of
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Did a La Quinta resident threaten the City Council? La Quinta’s Mayor says “yes” during a recent meeting on the future of short-term vacation rentals in the city. But that resident and others argue the city owes him an apology. “I was shocked. I was dumbfounded,” said long-time La Quinta Cove resident, Paul Quill. Quill
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A Coachella Valley family is seeking damages against the Palm Springs Unified School District and the busing company it contracts with to drive students to and from its campuses. The action follows a bus driver molesting a special needs student aboard a school bus. The criminal case has already gone to court and the driver,
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Confusion over the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine led to a broken promise to get some of our most vulnerable citizens the shot first. In I-Team Reporter Karen Devine’s special report “Vaccine Void” she spoke with community members who said the rollout plan by the state left some people out and scrambling to get the
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Riverside County and the State of California are making a number of changes to vaccine distribution after a number of problems were discovered with the initial rollout. Geoffrey Leung, M.D. of Riverside University Health still believes the county is doing okay. “So, we think Riverside County has been doing well with the rollout,” Leung says.
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Since the 1960’s Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage has hosted Presidents, national and world leaders. News Channel 3’s Karen Devine spoke exclusively with Ambassador David Lane,  President of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands who says they’ve reached out to President-elect Joe Biden and are hopeful he and his administration will make use of the estate in the next
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