By Riverside CountyContributed Approximately, 1,288,000 vote-by-mail ballots were mailed to voters starting Monday, Aug. 16, for the gubernatorial recall election on Sept. 14. While the ballot mailing started Monday, it is expected to take four days for all ballots to make it in the mail. Completed ballots must be received at the Registrar of Voters…

“This summer’s weather has been somewhat of a rollercoaster,” was the lead sentence in a weather story two weeks ago! Hang on, the temperatures on the Hill have passed the rollercoaster’s dip and returned to the top again. From record highs in July and early September to record lows in the middle of September, October…

Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts. The Salmon August Complex burned from July into October. The final U.S. Forest Service post about the complex fire was Oct. 6. From the middle of August until early September, Battalion Chief Mark LaMont of the Idyllwid Fire Department was a division group supervisor on the…

The Mountain Center Post Office reopened for business Monday. Mail delivery service has resumed and postal customers in Mountain Center will receive all mail that was held at the San Jacinto Post Office during the Cranston Fire. Blue collection boxes are back in service. “We appreciate our customer’s patience and understanding during the mandatory evacuation…