Idyllwild News

A charter bus was pouring out flames and smoke Friday morning, May 24, as it was heading to pick up students at Astrocamp in Idyllwild.

Share/BookmarkIdyllwild Fire Protection Department and Cal Fire crews responded to a tour bus fire on Highway 243 at South Circle Drive across from Idyllwild Storage around 11 a.m. today.

Plein air artist Paul Strahm paints Tahquitz Rock in 2012, one of the more distictive features of the San Jacinto Mountains.

Let the shopping begin. Friday, May 24, is the beginning of my favorite yard/estate sale weekend of the year in Idyllwild in the San Jacinto Mountains.

Here in San Diego, California Spring is in full swing and children are getting out of school for the Summer months.

Share/BookmarkPower is back in Idyllwild and the surrounding area after an outage that started around 11 a.m. Anza Electric Cooperative members received this email notification shortly after the outage began: "We are currently experiencing a system wide power outage due to Southern California Edison and the discovery of copper theft which has ... (more)

Doug Walker, a retired College of the Desert professor of natural resources and entomology, is one of the volunteers who collects for the Idyllwild Nature Center wildflower show this weekend.

The main highway between Idyllwild and Pine Cove in the San Jacinto Mountains was shut down Wednesday night, May 22, while firefighters battled a house fire that downed power lines.

Share/BookmarkI was saddened to hear of the dissolution of the Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce.

Cindy and Nick Uwanawich are accused of running unlicensed psychic businesses in Crestline, Idyllwild and San Bernardino.

Share/BookmarkAfter a well-attended successful launch of his third annual Idyllwild Author Series, Eduardo Santiago next presents Reyna Grande, author of "The Distance Between Us" . Grande recounts in her memoir how, when she was two, her family life was devastated by the departure of first her father, then her mother, as undocumented immigrants ... (more)

Share/BookmarkResolution of double payment of health benefits was not announced at the May 14 meeting of the Idyllwild Fire Protection Commission meeting.

Tahquitz Rock, also known as Lily Rock, is a popular destination for rock climbers, one of whom died there on Friday, May 17, 2013.

If you don't want to leave San Jacinto for your entertainment, Sunday, May 19, is a one-stop spot at the Esplanade Arts Center in the Fresh & Easy shopping It's the last performance for Inland Stage Company's production of "Baby with the Bathwater" at 2 p.m. See details here.

A rock climber is dead after falling 150 feet while scaling a rock face in the San Jacinto Wilderness near Idyllwild.

Update @ 12:09 p.m.: The hiker killed in a 150 foot fall has been identified. He was 21-year-old Lucas Dunn of Idyllwild.

Indian Wells police officers arrested a 24-year-old woman for suspicion of driving under the influence after she collided into the rear of another vehicle about 10:00 a.m. today, sheriff's officials said.

Idyllwild home-village hero Casey Abrams performs Saturday, May 18, at the Hemet Theatre.

Riverside County Waste Management Department has scheduled free household hazardous waste collection events Saturday, May 18, in Idyllwild and Pinyon Pines, similar to this past event in Murrieta.

Share/BookmarkWhen you read this column, Idyllwild Fire's May 14 meeting will already have occurred.