City / County News

Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey is scheduled to deliver the annual State of the City address Jan. 25 at the Riverside Convention Center. The speech, which is being produced by the city and the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce, will be Bailey’s sixth State of the City address, according to a …

Palm Springs is looking for volunteers to help conduct its part of Riverside County’s annual count of homeless people. The 2018 Point-In-Time Homeless Count is scheduled to be held Jan. 23, according to a statement. In Palm Springs, volunteers are needed from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. They will survey …

Moreno Valley had a solid 2017, with new business licenses increasing 10.2 percent. The city, which claims to have created an estimated 14,000 jobs during the last four years, welcomed a number of new businesses last year, including Cafe Rio Restaurant, Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, Jerome’s Furniture, Karma  Automotive and Wiseway …

Riverside has a established a tax amnesty program for businesses. The program began Jan. 1 and is scheduled to run through June 30, according to a statement on the city’s website. The Business Tax Amnesty Program helps companies that have either fallen behind in their payments or did not know …

San Bernardino is soliciting bids from developers interested in developing the city’s planned 5th Street Gateway Project. The project is planned for a vacant 6.5-acre parcel downtown immediately east of Interstate 215, according to a city staff report. City officials are recommending that some of the land be used for …

The Menifee Police Department has started an online traffic collision program that is available to the public. The system is for non-emergency, non-injury traffic collisions as well as hit-and-run traffic collisions that don’t have suspect driver or suspect vehicle information, according to a statement on the city’s website. All collisions …