One crash took place on Hill roads over the last week. At 4:30 p.m. Saturday, July 2, Amanda Weilbacher, 26, of Murrieta, was riding her 2015 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle westbound on Highway 74 about 1,000 feet east of McGaugh Road when she rounded a sweeping right curve, crossed over the double-yellow line and hit the…

Sammy Busby offers acting classes at Hilltop Music and Acting Studio foradults and teens. He is calling his enterprise SHB Acting Studio, usinghis initials and making a nod to his training at New York City’s HBStudio with Uta Hagan, whose book A Challenge for the Actor will be thetext for the classes. The classes will…

  Fuel abatement in historical burn areas is an ongoing responsibility of firefighting management and crews. Wednesday, June 3, Cal Fire and Riverside County Fire personnel thinned vegetation on 4.4 miles of the Poppet Flat Truck Trail. Part of ongoing projects throughout the county to thin fire fuel and create shaded fuelbreaks, the work is…

As you head toward Banning on Highway 243 it’s easy to miss Twin Pines Road on your right as you speed off the mountain. If you venture down that road, you’ll pass acres of charred manzanita and live oaks that testify to the awesome devastation, which the Esperanza Fire created here in 2006.