#riverside-county

#riverside-county

Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Wayne owned the ranch, known as Rancho Pavoreal, along with a partner from 1938 to 1948, according to a 1993 archeological assessment of the property.During this time, he starred in westerns like "Stagecoach" (1939), "Red River" (1948) and "Fort Apache" (1948).

Two people were killed Friday in a helicopter crash in a hilly, unincorporated area of Riverside County.The Riverside County Sheriff's Office said deputies were called to the crash site near Pulsar View Road and Chastity Road in an unincorporated area of Perris at 12:39 p.m.
Upon arrival, they found a downed helicopter.

Southern California home prices fell in November, marking the fifth time in six months that prices declined amid a broad slowdown in the housing market.The six-county region's typical home price dropped 0.9% from October to $815,911 last month, according to data released Monday by Zillow.The typical price - which Zillow defines as roughly the average of the middle third of the market - is now 6.3% below the peak reached in May.

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Two tornadoes that caused significant damage in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties Tuesday were part of a series of wild weather events across California this week.But they were not as uncommon as you might think."People feel like we don't get tornadoes in California, but we do actually get them here," said Carol Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

Downed trees and possible power outages.Thanksgiving in parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties kicked off with a red flag warning and hot, dry gusts of Santa Ana winds that are expected to peak Thursday afternoon and taper out by Friday morning.A high wind advisory is in effect until 3 p.m. for the San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita Valley, the Ventura valleys, as well as for the Santa Monica and Los Angeles County mountains.

Surging mortgage interest rates threatened to squash Michael and Christine Hawkins' dream of home ownership.But this fall when the couple saw a Canoga Park condo languish on the market, they devised a plan.They'd submit a "low ball" offer they could stomach if they cut back on vacations, shopping and eating out.

The first smatterings of golden poppies have begun to appear on the hillsides of Lake Elsinore, and local officials are bracing for the onslaught of traffic and ecotourists who are soon to follow and marvel at what could be a "superbloom" of wildflowers.In 2019, the quiet city in Riverside County saw thousands of people drive into town to take in the bursts of color.

Cayla Barnes ' athletic talents have taken her far from Eastvale, in Riverside County, where she grew up playing soccer and roller hockey before she followed her older brothers out to the ice and launched a stellar career.Barnes, 23, has won a gold medal and a silver medal while representing the U.S. in the last two Winter Olympic hockey tournaments.

A Virginia sheriff says that he ordered two of his deputies to search the home of a colleague who killed three people in California, and insists they acted to protect the public.Washington County Sheriff Blake Andis also says he told Riverside police, who are leading the investigation into " catfishing" cop Austin Lee Edwards, about his deputies' Nov. 25 search of Edwards' home.

State authorities this week announced they will close Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Riverside County and stop using a privately owned facility in Lassen County.Officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement that they took into consideration a number of factors - including the cost of operating the institutions, the effect the closures would have on nearby cities and the local workforce, and public safety needs - in deciding to close Chuckawalla Valley and end its lease of the California City Correctional Facility.

KB Home's Jeffrey Mezger & KB Home's Shadow Mountain in Menifee (KB Home, Linkedin, Getty, KB Home/CC BY-SA 4.0/via Wikimedia Commons) KB Home has big ambitions for tiny dwellings.The developer aims to build the state's first all-electric, solar- and battery-powered microgrid community of single-family homes, to be located in the Inland Empire.