The Palm Springs City Council last week voted unanimously to extend its urgency moratorium on data centers by 22 months and 15 days, for a total of two years.

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The Riverside Unified School District Board of Education Thursday unanimously approved a resolution opening up enrollment to nonresident students for the upcoming school year.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office Thursday confirmed it was investigating an accusation of surreptitious recording stemming from an incident at the September 22 Temecula Valley Unified School Dist...

Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday signed into law Senate Bill 1379, which called for the separation of the Riverside County sheriff and coroner.

Beaumont Unified School District is hoping voters will support an $86 million bond initiative, Measure B, this November for maintenance, repairs and upgrades across its facilities.

The Hemet City Council this week voted unanimously to name Ernie Reyna as the next city manager following the retirement of Mark Prestwich earlier this year.

Riverside’s Housing and Homelessness Committee Monday moved forward with researching possible updates of its mobile home park rent stabilization rules to clarify which fees could be passed down to ten...

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office has returned ballots and other election materials to the Riverside County Registrar of Voters, according to the registrar’s office.

More than a hundred residents of Perris, Moreno Valley and surrounding areas showed up to last week’s scheduled 46th District Agricultural Association/Southern California Fair board meeting in opposit...

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The Riverside Police Department announced Thursday that 17 smoke shops across Riverside, including nine in the Magnolia Avenue Corridor, have been shut down after months of investigations into alleged...

The California Supreme Court dealt dual blows to Riverside County Sheriff Bianco today, finding that his department’s ballot seizure was unlawful and that California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s direc...

Today marks the fourth anniversary of The Riverside Record, the nonprofit news outlet I founded in 2022. A lot has happened since then.

Today marks four years since The Riverside Record published its first story, and as both a Riverside County native and the publication’s first full-time reporter, I am honored to be part of this local...

Gov. Gavin Newsom last week signed into law more than a dozen bills pertaining to elections, including three authored by Sen. Sabrina Cervantes.

The Riverside City Council Tuesday unanimously decided to hold off on amending city code to add regulations on e-bikes, opting instead to have the ordinance further reviewed by a council-led committee...

The Riverside County Supervisors Tuesday unanimously voted to provide $100,000 in funding to support Murrieta Valley Unified School District’s telescope project. The money will come from the District ...

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Despite repeated pushback from two of its trustees, the Riverside Unified School District Board of Education voted 4-2 to maintain the board’s ability to host public comment before a topic’s presentat...

The Riverside City Council Tuesday unanimously upheld a high-end wine and spirit store’s appeal to open the business at the site of a former party supply store in Ward 3.

The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office last week charged Beaumont City Treasurer Anup Giresh “AJ” Patel with six felony counts related to the motel business he operates in the city.

In response to the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI), the Riverside City Council Tuesday established a temporary committee tasked with researching the technology and creating citywid...

The Riverside Land Use Committee Monday unanimously voted to direct city staff to draft a 90-day moratorium on data center applications to be brought before the Riverside City Council for discussion a...

The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office last week charged Menifee City Council District 4 Candidate Randy Madrid with four felony counts following a public corruption investigation.

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Several Riverside organizations, including Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson’s office, this week announced a new spin on a longtime local athletic rivalry between the city’s two Division I universities.

There are two Riverside Unified School District Board of Education seats up for grabs in the upcoming November 3 general election.

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Riverside County supervisors this week approved a five-year, $18.2 million contract extension with Axon Enterprise, Inc. to provide body cameras and related services to the Riverside County Sheriff’s ...

Two motels near Riverside’s Ward 6 portion of the Magnolia Avenue corridor could be converted into affordable housing for seniors, according to a report shared Monday with the Housing and Homelessness...

Last week, Coachella became the first city in Riverside County to adopt an ordinance permanently banning data centers the same day Palm Springs adopted a temporary moratorium on the land use.

Riverside County Vector Control this month reported its first two confirmed detections of West Nile Virus in unincorporated Riverside County for the 2026 mosquito season.

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Hundreds of residents gathered Wednesday in Temecula for San Diego Gas & Electric’s second open house to discuss the Golden Pacific Powerlink.

The Riverside Unified School District Board of Education Thursday vowed it would be more transparent with the public on how it plans to spend bond money after reviewing the findings of a state audit r...

A federal jury this week awarded $13.5 million to the family of a man who died while in pre-trial custody at the Cois M. Byrd detention center in Murrieta, though the family will only receive a fracti...

The council voted 4-0 Tuesday to approve a non-binding collaboration with the nonprofit Institute for Veterans and Emerging Technology Skills and its for-profit counterpart StemWorx.

The nonprofit, which operates in 30 cities across the country, is focused on reducing recidivism by offering short-term employment, coaching justice-impacted people as they apply for full-time work an...

Residents filled every seat and covered almost every inch of the walls in the Riverside City Council chambers Tuesday as they came together to celebrate longtime community leader Dell Roberts.

Following Monday morning’s California Supreme Court hearing, attorneys for the UCLA Voting Rights Project, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said they were...