Off-road vehicles are not allowed on any county service area roads and can only be ridden on private property with the written permission of the property owner. But there are areas nearby where you can legally ride your ORV. Hilary Sloane…
Updated 8:45 a.m. September 3 A man was killed early Wednesday morning when he was hit by a car on Old Woman Springs Road in Yucca Valley. The man, who has not yet been identified, was crossing Old Woman Springs Road, outside of a crosswalk,…
Attendees at the July 20 meeting of the Homestead Valley Community Council heard an update about the Scenic Highway 247 plan. The council established a Scenic 247 committee in 2012. Over the years, history, public outreach, photography,…
CalTrans and the California Highway Patrol have partnered to share an anti-littering message with the public. Reporter Joshua King has the details… This week will see the resuming of a statewide effort to remove litter from state highways.…
The Town of Yucca Valley will be performing maintenance on the medians along Highway 62 on Tuesday, May 5. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the number 1 lanes in both eastbound and westbound directions will be closed from Barberry Avenue to Old Woman…
Last week, we reported that citations from the California Highway Patrol are up 87 percent statewide for motorists who are caught speeding at 100 miles per hour or faster. Ernest Figueroa says motorists are also speeding in our Morongo Basin… …
John Hilton - "My beautiful picture" Have you ever wondered who named the roads you travel? Where the names came from or why? The folks at the Morongo Basin Historical Society also want to know and have issued a challenge to come up with the…
For the third time in about two months, a semi-trailer hauling carrots overturned its load in the Morongo Basin. Monday, a truck pulling two trailers of carrots was driving northbound on Old Woman Springs Road about 1:30 p.m. when a black sedan…
Sheriff’s detectives are investigating an attempted carjacking in Yucca Valley Saturday. According to a Sheriff’s report, about 5:45 p.m., a man driving a gray Nissan Altima with Oregon license plates, intentionally rear-ended a man driving a…
Snow blanketed the Morongo Basin from Morongo Valley to Twentynine Palms Thursday. Accumulations ranged from a dusting of snow to up to two feet in the higher elevations in Joshua Tree National Park. Some parts of Highway 62 experienced…
A Phelan man was arrested Sunday, accused of driving under the influence causing injury. California Highway Patrol officer Jake Griffth said Edward Saenz, 25, was driving an Acura RSX northbound on Old Woman Springs Road about 7:30 p.m. Sunday.…
A call about squatters on a vacant lot in Pipes Canyon resulted in the arrest of a Yucca Valley man for being a felon in possession of a weapon. Deputies were called to a vacant lot near Pipes Canyon Road and Old Woman Springs Road about 6 p.m.…
This story was updated at 9:11 on 10/2/19 Tony WatkinsFacebook The Sheriff’s Department has identified the suspect who was shot and killed by deputies during a pursuit from Apple Valley to Yucca Valley Sunday as Anthony Watkins, 36, from…
The driver of a semi- truck who was shot and killed by deputies following a pursuit late Sunday night tried to kill deputies several times during the 62-mile pursuit from Apple Valley. The victim, whose identity has not been released yet, was…
For years now, community groups along the 78 miles of State Route 247 between Yucca Valley and Barstow have pushed to have the historic, two-lane road officially designated a “Scenic Highway.” Now the possible conversion of almost 8,000 acres…
A Big Bear man who crashed head-on into another car on Old Woman Springs Road in December 2017, killing both occupants of the other vehicle, was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for vehicular manslaughter. Michael Daugherty, who will…
Listen to this story here: Janet Kodish: “You got to have a hardware store!…
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