Wildomar News

Motorists who travel Interstate 15 through the Wildomar area may want to plan ahead for overnight closures this week at the Clinton Keith Road interchange.

On April 17, 2013, Kaiser Permanente honored Riverside County volunteers who were 90 years old, from left, Dorothy Wood, Claire Eby-Billheimer and Virginia DuPrez.

A probationer accused of striking a police canine at the end of a chase in Murrieta that started when officers attempted to detain the defendant for allegedly carrying illegal drugs pleaded not guilty today to felony assault on a police service dog and resisting arrest.

Officials say a small brush fire in Riverside County was quickly contained and confined to a single property, but not before it killed two dogs and destroyed a house, a half-dozen sheds, several trailers, more than a dozen vehicles and a pair of boats.

UPDATED AT 4:51 p.m.: One home and a workshop were destroyed, and about a dozen vehicles damaged by a blaze that broke out Tuesday afternoon in Wildomar, a fire official is reporting.

Firefighters contained blaze involving a home, a workshop and several vehicles in Wildomar to 2 acres Tuseday, May 14, fire officials said.

The oppressive heat that set a new record of 105 degrees in Lake Elsinore is expected to last at least another day.

Dozens and dozens of people -- most of them Latino -- walked the streets of downtown Lake Elsinore Friday evening holding signs denouncing what they say is racial profiling by police.

Q: "My wife keeps telling me I'm breaking the law if I drive my car with only the parking lights on," said Murrieta resident Hugh Miller.

R Back row: Teen Miss Sierra Dobbie, Wildomar Mayor Timothy Walker, Miss City of Wildomar Emily LeGro, Jr.

Wildomar's three parks soon will get a lot cleaner, now that the City Council has given its blessing to Methodist church leaders' plan to muster a brigade of volunteers to spend a day working at the parks in late October.

Nadia Scorza, 9, of Wildomar, tries her hand at calf roping in 2011 at Old Town Temecula Western Days.

Backers of a proposed Wildomar charter school urged the Lake Elsinore Unified School board to approve its petition during a public hearing Thursday, May 9. Global Citizens Academy would open in the fall, serve about 150 students and have class sizes of about 23 students.

In the latest legal salvo aimed at Wildomar, two residents recently filed a lawsuit challenging the validity of the documents on which the city relies in making land-use decisions.

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May marks "Asthma Awareness" month, and Carey Poindexter, 14, of Murrieta asked Wildomar City Council to help him raise awareness.

Legislation to restore budget cuts for Riverside County's four newest cities has been parked for the time being.

Despite flourishing weeds and long-vacant grounds, Wildomar's parks and baseball fields will soon undergo transformations in preparation for what city officials hope are better days ahead for the facilities.

Lake Elsinore police officers arrested a woman Wednesday after a resident returning home allegedly caught the suspect amid a burglary attempt, officials said.

For the first time in several years, the water and sewer district serving Lake Elsinore, Wildomar and nearby areas is contemplating rate increases.