Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) announced that more than $44 million is coming to parks throughout the 56th Assembly District, with more than half going to Coachella Valley cities. The funding comes from Proposition 68, State of California Parks and Water Bond 2018, which was authored by Garcia in 2017. Cities and communities earned the funding by
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The Coachella Valley Unified School District unveiled plans to build a new elementary school in the North Shore community, near the Salton Sea. North Shore Elementary School will be built at the corner of Arthur Street and 70th Avenue. Tuesday evening, school district superintendent Dr. Luis Valentino, along with several board members, gave a presentation to
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Riverside County supervisors today authorized $5.99 million to pay nearly two dozen hotels and motels countywide that participated in the Project Roomkey program initiated in 2020 to place transients facing COVID-19 exposure risks. In a 5-0 vote without comment, the Board of Supervisors directed Emergency Management Department Director Bruce Barton to honor the voucher program,
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Public health officials and school district leaders from Coachella Valley Unified School District came together to emphasize the importance of COVID-19 vaccinations and testing. This comes as the spread of the Omicron variant continues and holiday travel is set to pick up. The leaders made gathered at the Coachella Valley Equity Collaborative vaccination clinic at
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Cathedral City will be lighting up the night on Wednesday for the Mayor’s Tree Lighting Ceremony starting at 5 pm. Located in front of Cathedral City Civic Center is the North Pole Village which is filled with Christmas lights and offers amazing photo opportunities. Santa Claus is expected to arrive at 5 pm where the
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Come Fall 2022 three students from Coachella Valley will embark on their college careers without having to worry about the stress of paying for college. Melody Chaclan, a Cathedral City High School senior, Jocelyn Arcos, a La Quinta High School senior, and Adonai Oudinarath, a Shadow Hills High School senior were three of 1,674 finalists
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Students in the film program at College of the Desert are gearing up to produce their final video projects of the semester right now, with a new push to make film sets safer. “What people don’t realize is that people get hurt all the time on film sets because of lack of safety protocols,” said
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This week, Palm Springs is expected to swear in California’s first-ever transgender mayor. Lisa Middleton will also become the second transgender person to serve as the mayor of a United States city. She’ll be sworn in at Thursday’s council meeting. News Channel 3’s Peter Daut spoke with her about her new role and her goals for the
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WEEK 2, TUESDAY: Tuesday was another long day in court for the jury and defendant Jose Larin-Garcia, the man prosecutors say killed four victims on February 3, 2019. The prosecution called two police officers to the stand. One says on the night of the murders, he saw a tall, thin figure, in dark clothing running
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The second annual Palm Springs Pinot Noir Festival will be held in January, organizers said today. The festival, themed “A Passion 4 Pinot,” will be held Jan. 8 at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, 74-855 Country Club Drive in Palm Desert. According to event organizers, the gathering is the largest Pinot Noir
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The community of Palm Springs took time today to pay tribute to local police and firefighters. The Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce hosted its Annual Police and Fire Appreciation Luncheon. Special guests included Palm Springs Police Chief Andrew Mills, Palm Springs Fire Chief Kevin Nalder, and retired police chief Bryan Reyes. Reyes was given the Richard M.
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Police are in an Indio neighborhood looking for a suspect involved in a possible shooting. The incident started at around 2:30 p.m. near Jefferson, north of Fred Waring Drive, in Indio. No one was injured in the shooting, according to Ben Guitron of the Indio Police Department. Officers later spotted a possible suspect vehicle heading
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After more than three hours of debate and testimony, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors today settled on a proposal to redraw supervisorial district boundaries that will ensure most cities and unincorporated communities remain intact within one district, eliminating concepts that didn’t meet that objective. “The county is changing. The demographics of communities are changing,”
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An investigation into a homicide at an Indio park continues. Police were called to respond to a report of an assault victim at Miles Ave Park on Monday at around 5:40 p.m. Officers said they arrived at the scene and found a man with a stab wound. Officers immediately provided first aid until medics arrived.
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The Board of Supervisors today formed a committee that will be tasked with ferreting out where Riverside County inter-agency systems can be improved to better protect vulnerable children and adults, while a former judge informed the board that an investigation into the issues that inspired the committee, involving 13 siblings, is progressing. Board Chair Karen
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The 33rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) released its line-up of films that will be screened. The festival will screen 129 films from 70 countries, including 32 premieres (4 World, 7 North American, 2 International and 19 U.S.) from January 6-17, 2022. The line-up includes Talking Pictures, International Feature Film Oscar® Submissions, New Voices New Visions, Modern
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You might want to make sure you’re getting those packages in the mail if you’re sending anything out for Christmas. The United States Postal Service is extremely busy this time of year as they work to get those shipments where they need to be. For one USPS office in Twentynine Palms, it’s never a dull
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In a video posted to his Instagram page, world-renowned French triathlete Vincent Luis said while competing Sunday in the Indian Wells – La Quinta Ironman Race, he was “hit by a car.” Luis said he had already completed the first portion of the triathlon, the swim, and exited the water and transitioned to his bike
Continue Reading WEEK TWO OF TRIAL Week two began in the Palm Springs quadruple homicide trial. Jose Larin-Garcia, a Cathedral City man, is accused of killing four people (ages 17-25): Carlos Campos, Jacob Montgomery, Yuliana Garcia and Juan Duarte Raya. The victims were all found shot and killed on the night of February 3rd, 2019. Three of
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“I miss her sense of humor, her stubbornness… her energy, she was life. She was just a ball of life.” Nicole Crystal Sinkule was raised in Cathedral City. Her parents described her as a friend to everyone. “She was a bundle of joy. Everybody was her friend. Everybody is still her friend, that’s why we
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