Firefighters from the Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD), Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department Stations 23 and 72 and the U.S. Forest Service – San Bernardino National Forest responded to a house fire on West Ridge Road Sunday afternoon. Initially, the call came in at 2:07 p.m. as a structure fire on Saunders Meadow Road at…

With an increase in cases and hospitalizations, the county was ordered by the state to close more businesses if those businesses could not operate outdoors.  The area of Idyllwild-Pine Cove has a total of 10 cases since the outbreak of COVID-19, the same number reported when the newspaper went to print last week, according to…

Water sales revenue growing as expected At their May 18 meeting, directors of the Fern Valley Water District reviewed the proposed budget for fiscal year 2018-19, which begins July 1, and took other financial actions. Revenues are expected to grow 23 percent from the initial 2017-18 estimates. The contributor is water sales revenue, which is…

Pine Cove Water District will move to Stage 2 water conservation on June 1, announced General Manager Jerry Holldber. PCWD has been in Stage 1 since April 2014. At the May 13 meeting, Holldber told the directors of his decision to lift restrictions from volunteer conservation to tightened mandatory actions. However, he did recommend that…

At its Sept. 13 meeting, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved a revised Ordinance 927.1, “Regulating Short Term Rentals” (STRs), and a moratorium on new STR certificates for two areas within the county. The new ordinance will be effective in 30 days. Effective immediately, however, a 45-day moratorium was placed on new STR certificates…