Pine Cove Water District’s May 8 meeting focused largely on the draftbudget, as the financial year draws to a close. The new budget totalsonly about 2% more than last year, well below the rate of inflation,currently around 3.5%. General Manager Jeremy Potter reported that the district’s static wellrose 4.4 feet to 74.5 feet, and is…

A cannabis (marijuana) industry is likely to come to the unincorporated areas of Riverside County, perhaps in 2018. Already nearly a dozen cities within the county have permitted at least one feature — retailing, cultivating, testing or distributing — of the novice industry. At the end of a nearly three-hour workshop Tuesday, March 20, Supervisor Kevin Jeffries, 2nd District, summarized the Riverside County Board of Supervisor’s next steps.

Here are the certified local election results. The Riverside County Registrar of Voters certified the election results Dec. 3 and the certified results have been sent to the board of supervisors. The state will certify elections by Dec. 11. Idyllwild Fire Protection District BoardChristina Reitz: 992 votesDennis Fogle (appointed incumbent): 688 votesDan Messina (appointed incumbent):…