Friday morning, Nov. 17, Idyllwild experienced a serious of brief power outages. Between 8:10 a.m. and about 8:40 a.m. power went out throughout the community. About six outages occurred during this period. None were for longer than a minute and several were back-to-back. When asked about the cause, the Southern California spokesperson said they were…

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has been awarded nearly $600,000 grant to help fund the expansion of the existing Body-Worn Camera program. The U.S.  Department of Justice grant is for the current fiscal year and next. The funding will cover the remaining nine patrol stations with staff, which do not have this equipment. This grant,…