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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake 6 miles north-northwest of Idyllwild at 11:39 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17 at a depth of 7.8 miles.A 2.4-magnitude followed at 8:44 a.m. about 6 miles north-northwest of Idyllwild.USGS also reported a 3.9-magnitude earthquake at 7:19 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12, 14 miles east-southeast of Anza. The earthquake…
Last week, President Donald Trump signed another Executive Order promoting domestic energy production and limiting the states’ ability to curb actions encouraging climate change. Trump’s EO is intended to maintain U.S. energy dominance, which he believes some state laws are thwarting. “American energy dominance is threatened when State and local governments seek to regulate energy…
On Wednesday evening, July 20, more than 30 people returned to Idyllwild School to discuss the community’s capability for tolerance and actions to further it. This session identified three actions that will be discussed further at the next meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 10. Two are specific steps that people could begin to implement and the…
The dreaded six-hour power outage affecting the town business area and many residential neighborhoods scheduled for Wednesday, April 16 was over before noon — two hours earlier than estimated. As reported earlier, Southern California Edison is upgrading its equipment at the Idyllwild substation, which will take its capacity from 4,000 to 12,000 volts. According to…
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors will have its second look at possible revisions to its districts’ boundaries as a result of the 2020 Census data. At the Sept. 28 meeting, the Executive Office Technical Redistricting Committee (EOTC) presented four maps of possible new boundaries to the board. In all four maps, Idyllwild and its…
As of press time, there are a total of 22 reported COVID-19 cases since the outbreak and one death reported for the area of Idyllwild-Pine Cove, according to the Riverside University Health System – Public Health (RUHS) website. That is two more cases than the newspaper reported before it went to press last week. As…