Icy conditions contributed to one vehicle overturning on Hill roads and a DUI figured in another in the week beginning Wednesday, Dec. 30. According to California Highway Patrol Public Affairs Officer Darren Meyer, the first occurred at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, when Somsanuk Samaij, 45, of Sanger, was driving her 2006 gray Toyota Tundra…

Stacie Kelly, emergency services coordinator with the Riverside County Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch, spoke to attendees at the Aug. 14 Mountain Emergency Service Committee meeting about what her department offers the community. Her agency partners with the county’s Office of Emergency Services whenever a county emergency is declared. “We focus on the…

Since discovery of the invasive and dangerous Goldspotted oak borer in Idyllwild two weeks ago, scientists and professional responders from CAL FIRE and the Forest Service have been meeting to devise steps to contain the spread of the destructive beetle. Kevin Turner, Goldspotted oak borer coordinator at the University of California, Riverside, said the next…