On average, deer in the wild can live up to 10 years, but with man as either an accidental or intentional assailant, more often than not deer seldom reach 5 years of age. And apparently, what applies to deer living in the wild also applies to the 22 aluminum painted deer of Idyllwild’s Deer Sightings…

Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies and the Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit responded on Sunday, Nov. 25, to reports of a hiker lost near the Cactus to Clouds trail near the mountaintop station of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. Relatives alerted authorities around 10:40 p.m. when the hiker, identified as Louis E. Perez of Corona, failed to…

On Friday, April 20, dozens of Idyllwild Arts Academy students walked from the campus to Village Center in Idyllwild in support of gun control on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting. Here they are passing Idyllwild School, where students were in front of the school also participating in the national “walk-out.”

Water supply for the Pine Cove Water District is satisfactory and unthreatened, according to General Manager Jerry Holldber, who gave his annual water report at the board meeting Wednesday, June 8. “We’ll stay in Stage 2 [emergency water restrictions] but still apply Stage 1 rates to customers,” he announced. “Moisture is almost normal … and…