Murrieta News

Red Top Cab, cab driver Carl Nielsen, 71 may have to take a random drug test if the City of Temecula ordinance change is adopted for random drug tests for its cab drivers in Temecula, March,05, 2014.

Cellphone artists Dennis Rahn and Randy Mellinger were among the many who visited the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve to see the vernal pools that appeared after the Feb. 28 storm dumped eight inches of rain in the hills above Murrieta.

Recently I found myself at Avaxat Elementary School in Murrieta getting the necessary paperwork to register another Hunneman boy for school.

FALLBROOK The Fallbrook Quilt Guild is offering a scholarship for up to $1,500. Applications must be received by April 21, 2014.

An Orange County man is suspected of stealing a mail carrier truck from Southwest Riverside County this week.

Dozens of volunteers turned out in Long Beach this week to help find a bone marrow donor for a 2-year-old Pasadena girl with leukemia-- and now it's Murrieta's turn.

We have a pretty good hint of what kind of election season we are going to have later this year in Murrieta, when the seats of three City Council members - Mayor Alan Long, Kelly Bennett and Rick Gibbs - come up for releection.

Murrieta has grown explosively in recent years to become one of Riverside County's largest cities, but it has maintained a "small-town feel," Mayor Alan Long said in a speech Thursday, March 13. In the annual State of the City address, delivered to a crowd of about 200 at Murrieta Valley High School, Long displayed video interviews of happy ... (more)

A Murrieta city employee has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling more than $20,000 from the general employees union while she was treasurer of that group, police said.

MURRIETA After 23 years, with the blessing of their hierarch Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church of the Temecula Valley has purchased a building that will be the new home for their parish.

Real estate values have increased significantly across the Temecula-Murrieta Valley and as a result property taxes will be going up since many homeowners benefited from a temporary reduction in value under the provisions of Prop 8. As a result of the increase in equity, many homeowners ages 55+ will want to sell the homes they've been in for ... (more)

A Temecula man who stabbed and slashed a jogger in an unprovoked attack that nearly ended the woman's life is slated to be sentenced today in Riverside County Superior Court.

Vista Murrieta finished atop the Southwestern League and made it into CIF Division 1AA quarterfinals before losing to Brea Olinda, 63-59.

A former Menifee high school girls' basketball coach accused of engaging in sex acts with a student is slated to be arraigned on felony and misdemeanor charges.

A Murrieta jury began its second day of deliberations Thursday in the trial of an ex-con accused of beating a homeless man to death with a rock during a confrontation at a Lake Elsinore transient camp.

Five years ago, BloodtypeG's first appearance on stage as a full band was at a special memorial concert with a group of 10 musicians who came together on the fly for a good cause.

Kaiser Permanente and Murrieta officials are taking the initial steps to create an environmental impact report for a potential medical complex here at Interstate 215 and Keller Road.

Through March 30. The Ethnic Studies Program and the Cross Cultural Series in partnership with Biblioteca San Joaquin Murrieta Library directed by Richard Soto will display the "Bracero Guest Workers and Women Workers of 1942-64 Exhibition" in the Multicultural Enrichment Center, Room 101 at Woodland Community College.

A man accused of nearly killing a Homeland resident in a drive-by shooting was charged today with attempted murder.

Cecilia Ros Murrieta eases a cork out of a tall bottle with a silhouette of a woman wearing pinup-style victory rolls on its label.