Canyon Lake News

Mieke Tankink, who is on the Menifee Skatepark Committee , reports that plans are now in the works to build a skatepark in Menifee, inside Audie Murphy Ranch, a housing development along Newport Rd, near the border with Canyon Lake.

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors this morning postponed a vote that would have extended the contract for fire department services that the county provides to the city of Canyon Lake.

A public hearing will be held Wednesday on a proposal to change the way Lake Elsinore Unified school board members are elected.

Canyon Lake City Council members, acting on a request from Ontario, will consider a resolution Wednesday that would throw their support behind the San Bernardino County city's quest to gain sole control over its airport.

Ben Wicke, center, receives an award for serving as chairman of the Association of California Water Agencies Region 9 board of directors for 2010 and 2011.

The east entrance to Canyon Lake Towne Center will be closed for about the next two weeks to accommodate the widening of Railroad Canyon Road.

The Music Center announced six from Riverside County are among 94 talented high school students who are performing arts semifinalists for the 24th annual Music Center Spotlight Awards in Los Angeles.

The city replaced its aging heating, ventilation and air conditioning system at City Hall and upgraded thermostats and lighting in City Hall and the Fire Department with energy-efficient systems.

An insect that can spread a citrus-killing disease has been detected in Lake Elsinore, Canyon Lake and surrounding areas, which has prompted the California Department of Food and Agriculture to expand an emergency program to eradicate the pest.

It will be months or longer before the first wakeboarder can skim along a private man-made lake in Wildomar.

Deputies were searching Canyon Lake and checking on registered sex offenders in the area today after a man wearing a black ski mask and driving a white van was spotted near school bus stops in the city, authorities said.

Canyon Lake Police officers responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle around 7 a.m. Thursday morning in the area of Vacation Drive and Canyon Lake Drive North in Canyon Lake.