Last week, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved the Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s request for an advance of its December property tax revenue. The district submitted the request for $400,000 in June and the board unanimously approved it. This is the third consecutive year IFPD has needed to obtain an advance to help it…

Editor’s note: Recently, Idyllwild and Pine Cove residents found in their mailboxes a letter addressed to the Idyllwild Community. Although some content was originally sent as a letter to the editor by Idyllwild resident Matthew Carpenter, we decided that this should be treated as a story since two businesses were named and alleged claims needed…

Fire crews were dispatched up Devil’s Slide Trail at about 2:50 p.m. Monday to extinguish a small vegetation fire. “The fire was located north of Devil’s Slide Trail in Humber Park,” said Gerrelaine Alcordo, assistant public affairs officer for the San Bernardino National Forest. A Cal Fire helicopter used Lake Fulmor as a water resource…