Two new fire stations are coming to the eastern part of the county. On Tuesday, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved fire station projects in North Shore and Desert Center. The community’s current fire stations are considered aging. Both were originally designed for staffing of one person but now have three or four personnel.
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Former Palm Springs City Councilmember and current Planning Commission vice-chair J.R. Roberts held a news conference on Wednesday morning to announce a significant development in the restoration of the historic Plaza Theatre in downtown Palm Springs. Roberts announced that David Lee, co-creator of “Fraiser” and a Palm Springs resident, has pledged $5 million to jumpstart
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Two elementary school students are making money by crafting their own wooden custom flags. The money they raise is being contributed to Gerald Ford Elementary School to help improve the music and arts program. As brothers Jake and Jason Vasquez followed the “stay at home” orders, they turned some free time into a small business.
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If you watched the season premiere of “The Bachelorette” on ABC/KESQ last night, you saw thirty men arriving in Indian Wells with the hopes of courting bachelorette Michelle Young. The resort hosting the hit reality show is the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa in Indian Wells. News Channel 3 reported in July that scenes for
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An arrest has been made in a murder investigation dating back to 2012. Indio Police confirmed on Tuesday that a suspect was arrested in the killing of Isela Duran, 45. Duran was one of two people shot on the night of July 11, 2012, at the intersection of Daisy Street and Primrose Avenue, just a
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In La Quinta, the long-delayed SilverRock Resort is getting a branding refresh, including a new name: “Talus La Quinta.” Robert Green, president and CEO of The Robert Green Co., made the announcement during Tuesday afternoon’s La Quinta City Council meeting. “We have so much to look forward to,” Green said. “The word talus is defined
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The Desert Hot Springs City Council unanimously approved a contract with the police department for a school resource officer at its high school. The contract will now move to the Palm Springs Unified School District board of education. If the board approves it, then SROs will return to Desert Hot Springs High School’s campus. PSUSD
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If you ride the bus in the valley you might want to double check the schedule. Sunline Transit Agency is modifying certain bus routes due to a shortage of bus drivers starting October 17th. “This last Sunday, Sunline Transit Agency moved over to ‘Service Level 2.’ What that means is that our local routes are
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The College of the Desert today announced it has been awarded a $1.3 million grant to help low-income, first-generation students find a path to college. The U.S Department of Education awarded the community college with the $1,386,870 “Educational Talent Search” grant in order to identify and assist middle- and high-school students who have the potential
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If the mixing and matching of booster shots is approved, then maybe somebody who qualifies for a booster shot and initially got the Moderna vaccine could go on to get a Pfizer booster shot. Maybe the side effects they got with Moderna were bad and they want to try something different.” The U.S. may soon
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The Coachella Valley Unified School District is in need of some extra hands to keep up with the number of students returning to campus. “Our district is looking for someone that really loves our students and will do their best to serve them at all times. I think the reason all of us are here
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The Riverside County Coroner’s Office has released the identity of the man killed in an officer-involved shooting last week on Interstate 10 in Palm Springs. Russell Leggett, 30, of Idyllwild was pronounced dead on Thursday after following a police pursuit that ended in a shooting. Police said the pursuit began at around midnight when Leggett
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El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents discovered a fake FexEx truck with undocumented individuals smuggled into the United States. The discovery happened Thursday afternoon near the Highway 111 checkpoint not far from Niland. According to Border Patrol, agents spotted the white delivery van “exhibiting signs consistent with human smuggling.” There were no details as to
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A small, 3.0-magnitude earthquake rattled a remote area of Riverside County near Idyllwild Monday at approximately 12:11 p.m., the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The temblor was centered 3.9 miles southwest of Mountain Center, approximately 6 miles southwest of Idyllwild, according to the USGS. It was at a depth of about eight miles. No damage or
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A woman was pronounced after being struck by a vehicle over the weekend in Indio. The collision happened at approximately 2:09 p.m. on Sunday near the intersection of Avenue 51 and Monroe Street. Ben Guitron of the Indio Police Department said an elderly woman in a motorized wheelchair was found sitting upright on the dirt
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Mitch Gershenfeld will be the new CEO of the McCallum Theater, News Channel 3’s Peter Daut confirms. Gershenfeld was the former CEO of the McCallum, retiring in 2019, however, he briefly returned to the role in 2020 following the departure of his successor, Terrence W. Dwyer. This is the second time he returns following his
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The public is invited to a public meeting Tuesday evening to provide feedback on drafted redistricting maps that can ultimately change the political priorities of a district’s representative. Latino representation has been a key issue in these redistricting maps. Redistricting measures are put in place to ensure there is fair and equal representation as the
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Student safety is a major concern for parents with kids at Desert Hot Springs High School, where there has been a pattern of ongoing violence on campus. Parents, students, teachers, police and city officials gathered at city hall Monday night for a town hall meeting to address the repeated fights on campus. “We are in
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A national agricultural farmworkers organization is traveling the country checking in on women who work in the fields. The organization, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, is working hard to educate women who work in fields across the country, not only about programs available to them during the pandemic but also about their rights in the workplace.
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Multiple agencies pushed Riverside County’s overall overtime expenses above $100 million in the previous fiscal year, with the sheriff’s department leading the pack, according to a report that the Board of Supervisors will review tomorrow. The Office of the Auditor-Controller just completed its 2020-21 fiscal year “Full Transparency Countywide Overtime Monitoring” assessment and, according to
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