Thursday, May 8, at about 9:45 p.m., a 3.2-magnitude earthquake occurred near Cabazon, but was felt on the Hill. A smaller 2.4-magnitude tremor occurred Friday before 7 a.m.
No damage has been reported.
Cabazon tremor shakes the Hill
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Thursday, May 8, at about 9:45 p.m., a 3.2-magnitude earthquake occurred near Cabazon, but was felt on the Hill. A smaller 2.4-magnitude tremor occurred Friday before 7 a.m.
No damage has been reported.
Improvement costs approach $600 million Last month, in response to Senate Bill 901 (approved Sept. 21, 2018), California’s electric public utilities submitted wildfire mitigation plans to the state’s Public Utilities Commission. Southern California Edison’s plan was more than 100 pages long. The document described dozens of different actions and plans to lower the risk of…
Riverside County’s property assessments continue to grow. The 2019-20 total county assessed property value is $302.8 billion, a 5.9% increase from FY 2018/19’s total value of $286 billion. This is the seventh consecutive year that property values have increased since they bottomed in 2012-13 at $204.9 billion following the recession. That year was the fourth…
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The Idyllwild Downtown Historic District now has a local review board. At its Tuesday, Jan. 29, meeting, the county Board of Supervisors approved the appointment of Nancy Borchers and Barbara Jones of Pine Cove, Ron Kammeyer of Fern Valley and Warren Monroe and Christina Stewart of Idyllwild. Borchers and Kammeyer will serve one-year terms and…