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Discount retailer to unload stores

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Dollar Tree, the popular discount chain, has announced that it plans to sell approximately 330 Family Dollar Stores. The transaction, which was announced Monday, is being undertaken so that Dollar Tree can get approval of its $8.5 billion acquisition of Family Dollar Stores Inc. from the Federal Trade Commission, according …

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Housing prices continue to climb

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The cost of a single-family home grew rapidly throughout the country in April, fueled by increased demand and inventories that remained low. Home prices, including distressed properties, were up 6.8 percent last month compared with April 2014, according to CoreLogic in Irvine. That marked the 38th consecutive month of year-over-year …

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Stater Bros. donates command center

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Stater Bros. has donated a mobile emergency command center to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. The 40-foot trailer, which Stater Bros. stopped using in 2010, is equipped with a communication system, flat-screen monitor, conference and storage areas and space for computers, according to a Stater Bros. release. The trailer …

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It’s Hardly Fair

By Ed Hoffman The overcrowded Republican presidential field has officially hit the point of otherworldly, with three more candidates entering the field in the last week, at least two more expected to announce this week, and up to another half dozen entering before the summer’s end. I’m not even sure …

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Inland manufacturing sector still expanding … barely

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It was mixed news in the Inland Empire’s manufacturing sector in April. First, the good news: The region’s purchasing manager’s index last month was 52.1, according to data released Monday by the Institute of Applied Research and Policy Analysis at Cal State San Bernardino. That was the eighth consecutive month …

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Inland water district clamps down

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Residents of southwest Riverside County are now on a strict water diet. Starting yesterday, the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District began implementing mandatory Stage4a water restrictions, the first time since the district was formed in the 1950s that has placed such tight limits on water use, according to a report …

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