Weather Service issues winter storm warning for Hill: Snow accumulations may be greater than...
Early this morning, Wednesday, Jan. 6, the National Weather Service in San Diego issued a revised winter storm warning for the mountains of Riverside...
Parts of Fern Valley without electric power for two days: Wind dropped trees on...
During the high winds Saturday, a tree fell across power lines on Upper Rim Rock Road. Some residents in upper Fern Valley were without...
Registrar notifies voters of IFPD election change
Last week, the Riverside County Registrar of Voters officially notified voters in the Idyllwild Fire Protection District that the date of future elections will...
Retirement debt a huge Idyllwild Fire liability: Buchanan continues as commission president
Jerry Buchanan last week was re-elected president of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s commission. He has served in that position since December 2013.
Her colleagues...
Holiday closings: December 31, 2015
Hill businesses and institutions that will be closed Friday, Jan. 1, to observe New Year’s Day are:
• Area post offices
• BBVA Compass Bank
• Fern...
One crash on Hill roads
At noon Saturday, Dec. 26, Thomas Bennett, 72, of Carlsbad, was driving his blue 2011 Dodge Ram truck east on Highway 74 east of...
Senior Food distribution at Mormon Church discontinued
Distribution of food to Idyllwild seniors by Second Harvest Food Bank and Feeding America of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties has been discontinued.
The longstanding...
Idyllwild’s fire rating jumps two levels
As he began his Chief’s Report, Idyllwild Fire Chief Patrick Reitz offered the district’s property owners a Christmas present. The International Organization for Standardization...
More moisture, but El Niño still to come
As 2015 ended, the Hill received its biggest rainstorm in more than year. During the pre-Christmas storm on Dec. 22, the U.S. Forest Service’s...
Top local stories of 2015
El Niño conditions or patterns, which have recently become daily conversation on the Hill, are not defined by the amount of precipitation. Rather, the National Weather Service defines them as higher-than-normal sea-surface temperatures along the equator from the coast of South America to the central Pacific Ocean.