A sitting judge, Burke Strunsky, is one of two challengers to the third term for incumbent Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin. (Strunsky has taken a leave of absence while campaigning.)The 49-year-old jurist has sat on the Riverside County Superior Court since 2017. But most of his professional career has been at the prosecutor’s table…

By Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Contributed On Oct. 30, at approximately 3:30 p.m., Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Hemet High School (HHS) in reference to a report of a student who had been stabbed. Deputies arrived within minutes and determined the incident occurred off campus near the intersection of Aurora Drive and Stetson Avenue….

Earlier this month, the U.S. Forest Service posted proposed changes to how it applies the National Environmental Policy Act to many projects on Forest Service lands. The draft regulations make it clear that agency decision makers should consider the effect of projects on the environment. And the sequence from a categorical exclusion to an environmental…

On Tuesday, March 20, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors will hold a workshop on the county’s cannabis ordinances and regulation, according to county officials. “It’s a workshop and not intended to produce an ultimate decision,” said Jeff Comerchero, chief of staff for Supervisor Chuck Washington, board chair from the 3rd District. “The question to…

With the recently released U.S. Census data for 2020, the Riverside County Executive Office Technical Redistricting Committee has released four maps of possible revised supervisorial boundaries. In all four maps, Idyllwild and its neighboring Hill communities will be shifted to District 4, which is essentially the desert cities — Palm Desert and Palm Springs east…