For the first time since 2015, when Riverside County awarded the emergency ambulance service contract to American Medical Response (AMR), the county’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency has denied AMR’s request to extend the contract’s expiration date. Each year, AMR submits an annual report that EMS uses to review compliance with the contract and whether…

For the second year in a row Idyllwild School has bettered previous year Academic Performance Index scores by more than 20 points. This year Idyllwild students posted an API score of 896, a gain of 23 points from last year. Local students posted one of the highest scores in the Hemet Unified School District and…

A two-vehicle crash at 10:34 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, on Highway 74 at Thomas Mountain Village resulted in one fatality and three injuries, two of them moderate to serious. According to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Darren Meyer, Walter Risch, 73, of Mountain Center, was driving a white 2004 Ford 150 truck westbound on…