Businesses now, residential customers will shift in 2020 Microwave dinners will become more expensive beginning in October 2020. That is when Southern California Edison will begin shifting all its residential customers to time-of-use electric rates. And evening electricity will cost more than lunch time. Beginning next month, new time-of-use periods will be applied to business…

Visitors planning to travel to the San Jacinto Mountains should be prepared for winter conditions. Nearly a foot has fallen this week, with more coming Thursday. Conditions can change quickly, and freeze/thaw cycles mean black ice even when the highway has been plowed. Chains may be required at any time. Snow play is not allowed…

At its meeting Tuesday, Oct. 19, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors officially appointed the Fern Valley Water District directors for 2022.All four individuals — Robert Krieger, Gary Erb, R. Jonathon Brown and Walter “Walt” Bonneau, Jr. — are currently incumbents. FVWD had scheduled a mail-in ballot election for directors Aug. 31.Since no other candidates…

On Friday afternoon the Idyllwild Town Crier contacted the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (RCSD) to see if the department had new information regarding the area’s four missing people: Dia Abrams, Rosario Garcia, Roy Prifogle and Melissa Lane. New information regarding the property of Abrams has surfaced. According to CBS Channel 8 out of San Diego,…