Riverside County News

Kevan Mckiddy of Lake Elsinore is one of 60 statewide chosen as a delegate for California Department of Education's Youth Leadership Forum for Students With Disabilities.

A 21-year-old Idyllwild man died Friday, May 17, when he fell about 150 feet from Tahquitz Rock, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said.

The Islamic Academy of Riverside plans its third annual fundraiser dinner at 6 p.m. Sunday at Orange Terrace Community Center in Riverside.

A homeless man using a handheld propane torch to heat up coffee last week sparked a fire that burned an encampment in Lake Elsinore.

Police arrested a woman in Desert Hot Springs this week after discovering items connecting her with identity thefts recently reported in Palm Desert and Rancho Mirage, according to the Riverside County Sheriff.

An ex-con accused of fatally beating a homeless man with a rock during a confrontation in a transient camp near Lake Elsinore must stand trial on murder and other charges, a judge ruled today.

Strong winds are expected to blow through the Coachella Valley and Riverside County mountains this afternoon through early Saturday, especially through and below the Banning Pass and along and north of Interstate 10.

Hundreds of families from all over the world offered to adopt Banjo, but ultimately a couple from Huntington Beach took him home Friday.

For the first time in nearly 4 1/2 years, Riverside County's unemployment rate dipped below 10 percent, state officials reported today.

The unemployment rate in Inland Southern California declined to 9.6 percent in April from 10.5 percent the previous month.

According to Riverside County court documents, his son's mother, Marjani Maldonado, filed for a permanent restraining order against him on Thursday, citing a threat of domestic violence.

Is the human brain naturally bent toward harmonic music? The Riverside County Philharmonic will offer the audience the opportunity to make that determination when it presents the music of Arnold Schoenberg, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff in the season finale on Saturday, May 18 at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside.

Community Access Center, which has been providing services to people with disabilities in Riverside County since 1995, is teaming up with Riverside Fire Fighters to host the 8th annual Wheelchair Basketball Exhibition Fundraiser at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at Poly High School, 5450 Victoria Ave.

Pot-bellied pigs kept in a backyard in Murrieta are causing a stink and neighbors are fuming.

A new state audit identifies almost $95 million worth of former Riverside redevelopment assets that it says have not been properly transferred to the agency in charge of settling the program's debts.

According to Riverside County Fire Department the one acre fire was reported around 1:50 p.m. at Avenue 52 and Tyler Street.

Investigators hold a briefing at the scene of a shooting Thursday, May 16, in which a woman was killed and a man critically injured from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Riverside County sheriff's officials said.

A woman driver died in a rollover crash in Desert Hot Springs today, and her 2-year-old and 18-month old children were thrown from the SUV, a county fire department spokeswoman said.

A air tanker makes a retardant drop on the hills above San Jacinto. Cal Fire has closed several areas in the San Jacinto and Hemet area to hikers because of the threat of wildfire, Dry weather and brush have led Cal Fire to close seven areas in Riverside County to hikers, mostly in the Hemet-San Jacinto area, because of the increased possibility ... (more)

Four people were arrested Wednesday, May 15, in connection with search warrants being served in two locations in Perris, according to a release from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.