Yearly Archives: 2017

By John R. Hawkins Fire Chief & Operational Area Fire & Rescue Coordinator & William Weiser, Division Chief Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department Decks: Surfaces within...

In response to the proposed Republican “tax reform” bill currently in the U.S. Congress, State Sen. Jeff Stone has drafted a tax reform proposal...

Still growing, Savage says The ninth Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema will be March 6 to 11. The IIFC has moved from its original timing...

U.S. Forest Service volunteers saw two of the permanent bald eagles, still comfortable with their home on the shores of Lake Hemet,  soaring over...

Last week, after Sacramento California Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang dismissed its suit claiming the State Fire Prevention Fee was invalid, the Howard...

We had a friend in Kansas whose daughter became engaged to a Jewish man, whom we knew predominantly because he relayed a story of...

Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, Dec. 10 to Dec. 16. Idyllwild • Dec. 10 —...

Only one traffic incident, a motorcycle crash, occurred on Hill roads recently. At 9:51 a.m. Monday, Dec. 18, Edwin Mejia, 25 of Indio, was...

Skips court hearing Alexander Michael Macias, 27, of Idyllwild, was arrested on suspicion of trying to impersonate and unlawfully obtain personal identifying information of Darryl...

Riverside County has reported its first flu-related death for the 2017-18 season, according to Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County public health officer. The victim was...