PINE COVE, Calif. — Smoke may be visible across the San Jacinto Mountains Thursday and Friday as fire crews conduct prescribed burning operations west of Highway 243.The CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire Department announced that the burning operations, part of the Red Hill Vegetation Management Program (VMP), are scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 22, and Friday, Jan. 23. The operations are situated...
Yue Stella YuCalMattersGov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal includes no money for a fund formed last year to boost the state’s local newsrooms, casting doubt on whether a heralded effort to help California journalists will amount to anything and how serious Newsom is about supporting the struggling industry.It’s a significant walkback from an August 2024 deal between state leaders and...
I’ve been listening to some ladies who have been studying the British Empire and it’s involvement in American politics as well as broader geopolitics, both historically and today. I took notes from one of their interviews and here’s my editorial using some of Susan Kokinda’s information.For nearly a century, Americans have been taught to view global politics through a...
Lawrence WilsonSenior Reporter, The Epoch TimesPresident Donald Trump on Jan. 15 released his administration’s new health care affordability plan, which aims to lower prices through marketplace reforms that include price negotiation, increased competition, and greater price transparency.Trump’s “Great Healthcare Plan” includes actions the administration has already introduced or is working to implement. If codified in federal law rather than...
INDIO, Calif. — A sharp magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck the Coachella Valley early Wednesday morning, the strongest aftershock yet in a restless seismic sequence triggered by Monday’s magnitude 4.9 event.
The magnitude 4.3 tremor occurred at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, centered approximately 20 miles north-northeast of Indio, according to data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). It had a shallow depth...
UPDATED: 4:35PMMURRIETA, Calif. —
A violent rollover crash on Interstate 15 Tuesday afternoon ended with a driver ejected onto the freeway shoulder and their vehicle launching over a perimeter wall, landing on a sidewalk in a nearby residential neighborhood.
The accident occurred at approximately 12:56 p.m. on the southbound I-15, just north of California Oaks Road.
According to preliminary reports from the scene,...
A vehicle fire was reported Monday afternoon on Winchester Road near Hunter Road in Temecula, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The incident was reported at approximately 11:51 a.m. as a vehicle traveling northbound on State Route 79 pulled to the right shoulder after smoke and flames were seen coming from underneath the vehicle. CHP logs indicate the vehicle, described...