Four-year-old Jake the cat didn’t really like camping, but owner Chuck Williams discovered that too late. On Saturday, June 28, Williams and roommate John Richards had brought Jake to Thousand Trails Campground and RV Park in Pine Cove for a weekend of escaping the desert heat. “We had just joined,” Williams said. “This was our…

About 5:30 a.m., this morning a 2.9 magnitude earthquake occurred about 4 miles south of Idyllwild. It was originally estimated to be 3.4 magnitude. The quake rumbled for several seconds before endingin a boom. No major damage has been reported. No further information is available.

Ames Construction, the Caltrans contractor, is not only repairing the damage to Highway 74 where it collapsed and was severed, but Ames is repairing and protecting the highway in several more locations. The fast-moving runoff eroded the edge of the highway in many places. Here, work is being done to restore Highway 74 about .75…