The San Bernardino National Forest will increase the current seasonal fire restrictions effective this Friday, Sept. 2. “Continued hot and dry conditions, coupled with a long-term outlook that predicts no change in weather trends and normal fall winds, have prompted local fire mangers to implement additional fire restrictions on the national forest,” the Forest Service…

While we’re experiencing yet another surging Omicron variant called BA.5, along with monkey pox and even a polio wave, our community’s essential workers soldier on, serving the public and meeting our needs while risking their own health in the process.As we’ve pointed out before, these folk staff our health service centers, law enforcement agencies, fire…

While not unusually long, the May 24 session of the Idyllwild Fire commission was busy. Not only did the commissioners approve the district’s creating a joint fire authority with San Jacinto City, they enacted resolutions to raise their ambulance service rates, to authorize collection of the current (not the proposed) parcel or unit fee and…