City / County News

San Bernardino has received a state grant that it will use to upgrade the broadband equipment at its main and three branch libraries. The new hardware at the Norman F. Feldheym Central Library will create data speeds of one gigabit per second, a “significant increase” compared with the system’s current …

Menifee will forego its annual State of the City address this year. Instead, in its place, the city will celebrate the 15th anniversary of its incorporation. The Menifee Birthday Celebration is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at the recently built Mt. San Jacinto College Stadium, 28237 La …

The 16th annual Believe Walk is scheduled to be held Oct. 1 in downtown Riverside. Sponsored by Stater Bros. Charities and Inland Women Battling Cancer, the event raises money for multiple cancer-fighting entities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Since it started in 2008, the Believe Walk has raised $8.4 …

Riverside is ramping up its effort to reduce its homeless population. The city council on Sept. 12 voted unanimously to create the Department of Housing and Human Services, which will focus exclusively on helping all homeless people living in Riverside find a place to live. The new department will have …

Victorville is scheduled to hold its annual Fall Festival on Oct. 7. The event will take place from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Victorville City Hall, 14343 Civic Drive, according to a statement on the city’s website. The 20th-anniversary festival, which is free and open to the public, will …

Riverside County has received a $12 million state grant that it will use to reduce homelessness in the San Jacinto riverbed. The money from the Encampment Resolution Funding Program will pay for “housing, street outreach, and wrap-around services,” to address the issue of homelessness in and around the riverbed,” according …