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Riverside is asking the people it does business with how it can do a better job. The city’s purchasing division is surveying its vendors – past, present, and some it may hire in the future – to find out how it can improve its purchasing and contracting practices, according to …

Actor-comedian Cheech Marin apparently had the right idea when he donated his collection of Chicano art to the Riverside Art Museum. Since it opened two years ago, the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture has generated an estimated $29 million into the local economy, enough to make it …

Rancho Cucamonga has opened a fourth electric vehicle charging station at the Rancho Cucamonga Sports Complex. The $1.2 million project, which opened Jan. 29, is expected to make it more convenient for Rancho Cucamonga residents to own and operate an electric vehicle, according to a statement on the city’s website. …

San Bernardino residents who wish to obtain an an accredited high school diploma and career certificate online may get help doing so from the city’s public library. The library is offering scholarships to residents 19 years old and older in partnership with Career Online High School, which is part of …

One of former President Biden’s last acts as the nation’s chief executive has revived a High Desert city’s opposition to the Chuckwalla National Monument on the east end of Riverside County. Two weeks before leaving office, Biden signed an executive order that made the 640,000-acre Chuckwalla territory a national monument, …

Staff from the San Bernardino Animal Services Department assisted victims of the Pacific Palisades and Malibu fires with locating lost pets. After receiving a request for help on Jan. 15, the department joined forces with Riverside and San Bernardino counties and Mission Viejo in south Orange County, according to a statement …