While rescuers were searching for Wendell Boydston, he was resting his twisted ankle overnight in Round Valley. Sunday evening at about 7:30, deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Cabazon Station received a call from his wife, Paula, that he was a missing hiker. Boydston, 60, of La Quinta, had left early Sunday for a…

Pine Cove voters continue to express their satisfaction with incumbents on the Water District’s board. All three — Board President Robert Hewitt, Lou Padula, and Joel Palmer — were easily re-elected to another four-year term. Challenger Jeffery Kleefisch finished with 60 votes (or 12.1 percent of the ballots cast) well behind the three incumbents who…

With the upcoming changes in ambulance response effective May 1, the second-closest-available unit will be dispatched if American Medical Response is not available to respond because it is on another call. This could mean another AMR ambulance or Idyllwild Fire Protection District. Locals have asked for a cost comparison of the two ambulance services. These…

Brendan Steele tees off Thursday, Jan. 16, for his first tournament of calendar year 2014 in the $5.7 million Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation in nearby La Quinta. Of course, the newly formatted PGA Tour season began three months ago and Steele played in some of those early tournaments. He currently is…