Business

Negotiations between Food 4 Less and the United Food & Commercial Workers Union are scheduled to resume Wednesday. The UFCW reached agreements with Vons, Ralphs, and Albertsons in May and Stater Bros. last month, but it failed to agree on a contract with Food 4 Less, according to a report …

A company that rents high-tech pallets for the logistics industry has leased an industrial building in Riverside. Intelligent Global Pooling Systems signed a $5 million agreement on the property at 14855 Innovation Drive in the Majestic Business Center, according to Colliers International. The transaction, which was completed earlier this month, …

A clean energy company is continuing its fight to build a job-creating solar power generation facility on 23 acres in unincorporated Apple Valley. Clean Focus Corporation was denied its conditional use permit request via a 3-0 vote by the San Bernardino County Planning Commissioners on June 19, and is appealing …

One of the nation’s largest banks will pay approximately $7 billion to end a federal investigation into high-risk subprime mortgages the bank made, the kind of loans that helped bring about the Great Recession. Citigroup will make a $4 billion civil payment to the U.S. Department of Justice and another …

The planning commission has given its approval, but some residents say the neighborhood store will bring more traffic to the city. A citizens group has formed to oppose it, but it faces a difficult fight. Despite some opposition, Walmart’s plans to develop one of its neighborhood grocery stores in La …

An unusual High Desert landmark is operating again. The world’s largest thermometer, a 134-foot-tall structure next to Interstate 15 in Baker, was relit Thursday following a major renovation, according to a report in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Local businessman Willis Herron built the thermometer to try to attract motorists …