Firefighters Tuesday rescued one person trapped in a vehicle just outside of Mountain Center. Rescuers were called at 1:32 a.m. to Highway 74 east of Bee Canyon Trick Trail and found a single vehicle off the roadway, approximately 200 feet over and 15 feet down, with one person inside, according to the Riverside County Fire […]
Torrential rain pounded parts of Riverside County Friday, prompting forecasters to warn of flash flooding and potentially damaging hail. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning that will be in effect until 6:45 p.m. Friday, noting that the storm system had dropped between 2 and 4 inches of rain in some areas. “Flash […]
MOUNTAIN CENTER (CNS) – More than 200 firefighters held a brush fire burning near Mountain Center at 715 acres Monday and were working to clear more vegetation around it. Early Monday, the Bonita Fire was at 40% containment and fire activity was described as minimal, with any flare-ups in unburned chaparral and brush within the […]
Roy Prifogle, Lydia Abrams, Rosario Garcia, Melissa Lane, Vanessa Vlasek and Jade Kemerer they don’t know each other, have no connection but they do have one thing in common: they have all gone missing from the mountain communities above the Coachella Valley within the last five months. The last person that was reported missing by […]
MOUNTAIN CENTER (CNS) – A motorist was injured Tuesday in a rollover crash that temporarily closed state Route 74 west of Mountain Center. The wreck happened about 11 a.m. on the eastbound side of the two-lane highway, just south of Old Control Road, within the San Bernardino National Forest, according to the California Highway Patrol. […]
