Sometime in the future, your electric provider may be Riverside County rather than Southern California Edison. At its Aug. 23 meeting, the Board of Supervisors authorized the county executive to pursue investigating the possibility of establishing a community-choice aggregation program. In 2002, the state authorized local governments to procure or develop electrical power for themselves,…

At its March 11 meeting, the Riverside Board of Supervisors approved a 45-day temporary moratorium on new STRs within the unincorporated areas of Thousand Palms, and B Bar H Ranch. Planning Director John Hildebrand provided the Board with a report on the situation in these two desert communities and concluded with a request for the…

In a primary race with multiple candidates, it is common for one with less name recognition to hurl comments at the leader in order to gain greater attention and try to improve their chances of winning a squeaky race. So one might expect one of the Republican gubernatorial candidates to fling a barb or two…

Early in 2016, Verizon landline customers on the Hill should expect Frontier Communications of Connecticut to take over their phone service. The two corporations announced the purchase in February 2015. For about $10.5 billion, Frontier will acquire Verizon’s wire-line operations in California, Florida and Texas, which serve about 3.7 million voice customers and 2.2 million…

Periodically, the Town Crier has sought information from Hill propane suppliers regarding pricing and other matters. Some companies will talk to us, others won’t. Propane suppliers are private companies, not regulated by state public utility commissions in the way public utilities such as natural gas, electric and water are regulated. And because pricing is based…