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Members of the Hemet Fire Department are taking their fight to keep the department alive to the voters. Firefighters are collecting signatures that would put a referendum on the city ballot that, if approved, would reverse the Hemet City Council’s decision to do away with the department, according to a …

A plan that will manage conservation and renewable energy in nearly one-quarter of California has been unveiled by the federal government. The Desert Renewable Energy and Conservation Plan covers 22 million acres, including much of the inland valleys and deserts in Southern California, according to multiple reports. U.S. Interior Secretary …

U.S. officials have approved plans that will restore the Salton Sea. The plan, approved Friday by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, makes it possible for local officials to proceed with a conservation plan that includes management of wildlife and some recreational use at two refuges, according to a report …

More water will be pumped into Lake Elsinore this year than in past years to make up for what has been lost during the drought. That move has led the agency that oversees the lake, the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, to increase what it usually spends in one year …

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors has voted to provide fire protection to Hemet, with some conditions. Board members voted 4-0 Tuesday to move forward with such an agreement, but only if Hemet completes its negotiations with its firefighters union and implements paramedic service, according to a report in The …

For the first time ever, California will regulate pumping of its groundwater. Gov. Brown signed legislation Tuesday that requires some local jurisdictions and water districts to manage their wells, while giving state water agencies power of enforcement – including water meters and fines – if those wells aren’t managed properly, …