While the first snow of the 2018 winter arrived this week, the California Highway Patrol has already begun vigilantly enforcing the “No Parking” and “No Stopping” rules along Fern Valley Road, and one resident is not happy about it. Over the past year, the Idyllwild Snow Group, led by Marsha Kennedy, approached Riverside County 3rd…

A visitor to the U.S. Forest Service’s Humber Park was injured sledding on the snow Saturday, Jan. 28. The incident was reported at 1:47 p.m. Initially, emergency responders had difficulty locating the injured person. Once found, they requested Cal Fire’s helicopter to remove the victim rather than try to carry the person out in the…

Caltrans District 8 work on the Hurkey Creek Bridge replacement moves into a second stage with a narrower, one-direction lane on the north side of the project. Work on the south or Lake Hemet side required narrowing the north-side lane slightly. The north-side lane now measures 10 feet, 10 inches. That’s a 130-inch horizontal clearance…

As of Wednesday morning, about 80 percent of the expected ballots from yesterday’s primary election have been counted. The Riverside County Registrar of Voters has announced that there are about 40,000 more ballots to count, but further results will not be released until Thursday evening. So far, 158,987 votes have been counted. This represents about…

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is alerting motorists that this weekend kicks off the first two weekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival followed by the Stagecoach Festival. If you use I-10 between Beaumont and Indio or State Route 60 from Moreno Valley to Beaumont; be aware that thousands of people will…