
The MEMSCOMM meeting scheduled for Thursday morning, Jan. 19 has been canceled, according to Jerry Hagen, emergency services coordinator for Riverside County.
The next regularly scheduled meeting is Thursday, Feb. 16
MEMSCOMM canceled
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The MEMSCOMM meeting scheduled for Thursday morning, Jan. 19 has been canceled, according to Jerry Hagen, emergency services coordinator for Riverside County.
The next regularly scheduled meeting is Thursday, Feb. 16
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the award of $253.6 million of grants for support of more than 800 local homeless housing and service programs in California. Riverside County received $7.1 million for local programs such as ABC Recovery Transitional Housing, Martha’s Village and Kitchen Transitional Housing, Shelter Plus Care Consolidated All…
Riverside County will host another free COVID-19 testing day at the Idyllwild Library from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Visit https://gettested.ruhealth.org/ to make an appointment or call 800-945-6171. As of press time, there are a total of 22 reported COVID-19 cases since the outbreak and one death reported for the area…
In principal, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors has granted the sheriff authority to continue to increase staffing in the unincorporated areas of the county. However, the 5-0 vote at the Sept. 1 meeting did not authorize any more funding for this fiscal year. In fact, unanimous support for the proposal introduced by board Chair…
Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer urged Riverside County voters today to drop off vote-by-mail ballots before Tuesday, Nov. 4, so that their votes can be among the first results posted right after the polls close. The Registrar advises against returning ballots by mail now. Ballots must reach the registrar by 8 p.m. on Election Day…
Travis Mason is the acting district ranger for the San Jacinto Ranger District (SJRD). He began his tour Jan. 3 and is the latest in a series of “acting district rangers” since Julie Hall left for the Inyo National Forest a year ago. Mason has spent much of his U.S. Forest Service career (more than…
On June 25, 2018, at approximately 6:25 p.m., a motorist stopped his vehicle on Highway 243 near milepost marker 19 at a dirt shoulder to take photos of the panoramic San Gorgonio Pass below. As the driver walked to the edge of the mountainside, he saw an overturned vehicle in the thick bushes below. The…