Directors of Pine Cove Water District unanimously approved a rate increase effective, April 1. The District’s advanced minimum rate will increase $4 to a total of $57 per billing period and the water usage rates will increase 20 percent. Users will see the new minimum rate on their April bills later this month. PCWD issues…

On Wednesday, Sept. 16, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris issued her third annual statewide report on elementary school truancy and chronic absence. The report, In School + On Track 2015, is available online at  www.oag.ca.gov/truancy/2015. The report finds that, compared to last year, California still faces a crisis in school attendance. Nearly 230,000 California…

Pine Cove Water District’s Board of Directors met on September 19, andheard from their departing Field Foreman, Chris Dumas, who will soon bethe General Manager of Arrowbear Park Water District. Dumas praisedPCWD’s board and staff but exhorted them to work with GM Jeremy Potterto make salaries competitive with those of other local districts. Among items…

The Idyllwild-Pine Cove area had one confirmed COVID-19 case as of the 1 p.m. April 3 Riverside University Health System-Public Health website update. On April 6, that number increased to two.  The county also held a press conference on April 3 to let people know the four things that need to happen to flatten the…