The U.S. Forest Service has extended the State Forestry Grant to Riverside County, Gregg Bratcher, Cal Fire unit forester for Riverside County, announced last week. The grant was scheduled to expire Sept. 30, but Cal Fire requested a one-year extension. About $450,000 will be available for fire protection on the Hill during the next year….

No one was injured in a roll-over traffic collision Monday at about 3:20 p.m. California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Darren Meyer said Marco Cervantes, 42, of Yucca Valley was driving the gray 2000 Toyota Tundra truck on Highway 243 when it rolled over about a half mile north of Mt. Edna Road. Cervantes and…

By Jack and Becky Clark, Co-publishers Our readers’ response has been overwhelming, and we still have a way to go. But after only 27 days of the new Membership model, we are more than a third of the way to the minimum annual amount we estimate we will need from members for the newspaper to…