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UC Riverside has received a $1.5 million grant to help fight a disease that threatens the nation’s fruit supply. The emergency donation from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture is being used to identify plants immune to Citrus Greening Disease, which leaves fruit “bitter and worthless,” according to a …

Ontario International Airport will soon have its first duty-free retailer. The Ontario International Airport Authority has approved a 10-year agreement with 3Sixty Duty Free and More Inc., a leader in global travel retail operations based in Miami, according to a statement on the airport’s website. The store is expected to …

A firm that produces containers and other manufacturing supplies will move its Jurupa Valley manufacturing operation to a larger building in that city. The Cary Company has signed a 10-year lease on a 139,000 square-foot industrial building at 10220 San Sevaine Way, according to a statement released Monday by Avison …

A regional airline has begun flights between Palm Springs International Airport and Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Aha! Airlines, a subsidiary of Express Jet Airlines in College Park, Ga., began the thrice-weekly flights Monday and will continue them indefinitely, according to a statement on Palm Springs’ website. “We see a huge demand …

Uber has been added to Ontario International Airport’s transportation network. “We are pleased to welcome Uber to Ontario International just in time for the busy holiday travel period,” Daniel F. Cappell, the airport’s chief commercial officer, in a statement. “As the population in the Inland Empire grows, we want to …

Palm Springs International Airport broke pre-pandemic passenger records in November, the sixth consecutive month the airport accomplished that feat. Passenger count for the eleventh month of 2021 was 271,944, a 151.7 percent increase over November 2020, according to a statement. Previously, the record passenger count for November was in 2018, …