The Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego metropolitan areas have the most homes in the western United States considered to be at high or extreme risk of being damaged or destroyed in a wildfire, according to a report released recently by a real estate information service.According to CoreLogic’s 2019 Wildfire Risk Report, in the 13 western states most commonly...
Riverside County supervisors Tuesday, Sept. 17, approved $44.65 million in budget adjustments to rectify imbalances from the previous fiscal year.The so-called “yearend cleanup” modifications were authorized in a 5-0 vote without comment during the board of supervisors’ policy agenda.According to the Executive Office, some of the adjustments stem exclusively from accounting revisions, while others are connected to actual losses...
Hamilton High School in Anza has a new Bobcat named Sue Brown. Although she has been around the district since 1988, she is new to our site. We feel privileged to have her at our school, leading the BARR team.We asked Mrs. Brown to explain the importance of BARR, which stands for “Building Assets and Reducing Risks,” and what...
A wildfire that erupted Wednesday, Sept. 18, in the hills southwest of Aguanga blackened roughly four acres before it was stopped.The non-injury blaze was reported at 11:37 a.m. south of state Route 79 along the Crosley Truck Trail, on U.S. Forest Service land, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.Four Cal Fire air tankers and a water-dropping helicopter deployed...
Tuesday, Sept. 17, was Constitution Day, and arguably it is the most forgotten designated day in America. The mainstream media will say nothing of it. No parades or city council proclamations. No three-day weekend, beer busts or barbecues in its favor. It is as though it never happened. Probably not one in 10 people can tell what happened this...
DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER
AP Business Writers
Pilots flying the two Boeing 737 Max jets that crashed in the past year were bombarded by multiple warnings that the flights were going dangerously wrong.
Boeing has said the pilots should have been able to swiftly diagnose the problem and follow a longstanding procedure to fix it.
But a report Thursday from federal...
JOHN FLESHER
AP Environmental Writer
Escalating its fight with California, the Trump administration accused the state Thursday of failing to stop water pollution from such sources as human waste left on the pavement by the homeless in big cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles.
San Francisco's mayor disputed any connection between homeless people and water quality, and she and...
LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Military suicides surged this year to a record high among active duty troops, continuing a deadly trend that Pentagon officials say is frustrating and they are struggling to counter.
The Army, Navy and Marine Corps all saw the rate of suicides go up as well as the overall numbers, with only the Air Force...
WILDOMAR – A Wildomar man suspected of operating an indoor marijuana grow containing hundreds of plants was being held Thursday, Sept. 26, in lieu of $10,000 bail, while his alleged cohort posted bond and was released from custody.Rene Robert Luna, 21, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning on suspicion of cultivation of marijuana...
LAKE ELSINORE – A seventh suspect in the torture-killing of a 31-year-old Wildomar man whose remains were dumped in the Cleveland National Forest was behind bars Thursday, Sept. 26.
Victor David Lindzy, 48, of Lake Elsinore was arrested and booked Wednesday on suspicion of murder. He's being held on $1 million bail at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.
Riverside County...