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On August 29th, we aired the first two reports of West Nile Virus in Riverside County. It turns out, there may have been a third case. Joan Sotomayor, of Palm Springs, says her partner contracted the virus after they went for a morning walk in mid-July. They took their dogs on a walk near Gene

A fire in the Juniper Flats area between Perris and San Jacinto that has charred at least 490 acres of brush was 30% contained, authorities said Monday. Two hundred residents from 60 homes in the community of Mayberry in San Jacinto who had been under evacuation orders from the Riverside County Fire Department since Saturday

In Palm Springs, 125 Southern California Edison customers remain without power Sunday morning. We are told the outage was initially reported around 9 a.m. Saturday. SCE says there is a crew working on repairing some equipment. So Cal Edison initially said they were expecting the issue to be resolved by 7 p.m. Saturday but now

The Palm Springs Police Department will be conducting a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint starting tonight. PSPD says the checkpoint will be held at an undisclosed location within the city limits between the hours of 9:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. “DUI Checkpoints like this one are placed in locations based on collision statistics and frequency of DUI

Rancho Mirage’s Planning Commission approved a proposed In-N-Out Hamburger location at the Rancho Las Palmas Shopping Center, sending the matter to the City Council for final approval. The new business proposal has sparked controversy in the community. The council has not made a decision on the proposal. The Rancho Mirage Planning Commission members listened to

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department confirmed two people were killed in a shooting in Palm Desert. According to a Tweet by the Riverside County Sheriffs Department, deputies first received reports of a shooting at approximately 1:54 p.m. in the community of Desert Breezes, a gated community on the 43000 block of West Calle Las Brisas,

Workers at Ralphs, Albertsons and Vons/Pavilions throughout Southern California and as far north as Santa Maria “overwhelmingly” ratified a new contract with the grocery chains, averting a potentially costly and disruptive strike, union officials announced Thursday. Officials with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, the Los Angeles-area union representing grocery workers, issued a

Retired school principal Rita Lamb has been elected to the Cathedral City Council after defeating former council member Shelley Kaplan in a special vote-by-mail election. The Riverside County Registrar of Voters released the results Thursday afternoon. According to their count, Lamb won by 39 votes. “I am beyond honored it was a thrilling campaign and

The Desert Hot Springs Police Department announced closed several major roads for a couple of hours following a crash Thursday afternoon. According to DHSPD, at around 12:25 p.m., officers responded to a call of a stolen vehicle near the area of Ocotillo Road and Estrella Avenue. When officers located the stolen vehicle, a male suspect