Canyon Lake News

Krisi and Bob Doyle walk 3-year-old Sparki Doodle Doyle, a Harlequin Great Dane and a therapy dog.

A wildfire broke out Saturday afternoon just south of Canyon Lake, burning about five acres of light brush and heavy trees, according to Cal Fire.

Riverside County Supervisor Kevin Jeffries will be the featured speaker at a meeting Thursday of the Lake Elsinore Citizens Committee.

Patrick Joseph Colleary, 62, of Canyon Lake, has been charged with perjury and filing forged DMV vehicle registration forms, court records show.

The tiny California city of Canyon Lake has served notice on the state's pension fund that it wants to quit the plan, at a time when cities across the state and the United States are looking at ways to rein in soaring retirement costs.

Sydney Southwick, an eighth-grader at David A. Brown Middle School, was recently recognized for her academics and service with the Marian Huhn award.

UPDATE: According to So Cal Edison spokeswoman Caroline Aoyagi, all power has been restored as of 5:07 p.m. Aoyagi said that crews determined the cause of the outage to be the result of vandalism and copper wire theft at the Newcomb substation.

Update at 5:20: p.m.: SCE reports restoration of power should be taking place momentarily.

The ICS Regional Sanctioned Chili Cookoff is part of the town's Western Days celebration, which features Old West shows and a high noon bank robbery.