Ashley Ludwig has been a columnist and online news editor since 2007. She is a resident of Riverside County and covers the Patch sites and stories across southern California.
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Before joining Patch, Ashley Ludwig worked as a staff writer for the Valley News Newspaper in Southwest Riverside, covering both print and online editions. She co-founded the Southern California online magazine DailySoCal.com. She served as a freelance journalist for various publications, including the North County Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, and Southwest Riverside News Network (SWRNN.com), as well as articles and book reviews for the former Pages Magazine.
She owns the local Southern California Wine Country blog: Temecula Grapevine.com. Wife and mother of two daughters, she has written multiple romantic suspense novels, and chick-lit romances. Find them on Kindle and in print on Amazon.com.
A content creator and information architect since the late 1990s, Ludwig also project-managed multiple ad campaigns with Adwire for the entertainment industry, as well as worked with Books in Print, Bowker with the New York Times Bestseller Lists. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences.
A wind-driven blaze forced 100,000 from their homes, with another full day of howling winds ahead. As they seek shelter, here's how to help.
Micah Chazz Harris, 22, of Temecula is being held in lieu of $1 million bail at Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.
Fires burned in San Bernardino County and RivCo in both Anza and Coachella Valley. SoCal Edison says over 5K customers were without power.
The actress who plays Nicole Kidman's sister in 'Scarpetta' left the crowd laughing, crying at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
The resale shop known for buying and selling gently used designer clothing and shoes to Temecula teens is shuttering its store in January.
Coachella Valley Firebirds and Official Conservation Partner, The Living Desert, Team Up to Raise Awareness for World Desert Day.
Riverside County Sheriff's Department investigating a rape and kidnapping descended on an Oak Cliff Drive home over the weekend.
Tuesday morning, winds grew in the Inland Empire, a fire erupted along the Santa Ana riverbed near a homeless encampment, and it's snowing.
Aaron Bowers was shot and killed in Temecula over the weekend, and now his loved ones seek answers and support.
The 13-year-old girl was reported missing from her Jurupa Valley home over the weekend, officials say.
Shoppers across Riverside County Walmarts helped ease hunger this holiday, buying these 20 products and raising $175K for Feeding America.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department Southwest Station deputies swarmed a Temecula neighborhood early Saturday, where a man was shot.
The car crashed into a creek below the OC freeway and the men's identities are being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
The Huntington Beach Kneeboard Surfing USA Titles, planned for Valentine's Day 2025, will include dozens of the sport’s top competitors.
The ABC Recovery Center, a nonprofit helping those with addiction, is in the middle of a vital expansion, according to Supe V. Manuel Perez.
Toast Temecula, Toast Murrieta, and 1909 are running an annual fundraising campaign with an ambitious goal of raising $50,000 for charity.
A man died after becoming wedged between his car and a parking apparatus at the Irvine shopping mall.
A man died after becoming wedged between his car and a parking apparatus at the Irvine shopping mall.
The small plane crashed minutes after takeoff, striking the roof of the busy Michael Nicholas Furniture Factory in Fullerton.
The Ortega Highway was down to one lane in Orange County after a deadly motorcycle crash.
