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Riverside County has received 26,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, nearly 4,000 of which will be used at six clinics that opened Thursday. The clinics in Lake Elsinore, Perris, and Indio are for people in Phase 1A (all tiers) and Phase 1B (tier one, which includes people 65 and older), …

Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson will deliver Riverside’s State of the City Address on Jan. 28. The virtual event, scheduled to start at 5 p.m., will be a look back at 2020 and a look ahead to what’s in store for the city in 2021, according to a statement on the …

Apple Valley has adopted regulations regarding street vendors, measures designed to comply with town zoning regulations, and county healthy requirements. “We want to help protect all of Apple Valley’s current business owners who have fought tirelessly to ensure their doors stay open,” said Mayor Curt Emick in a statement. “This …

Riverside County is not getting nearly enough COVID-19 vaccine. More than 700,000 county residents are eligible to receive the vaccine, yet the county has gotten only 114,000 doses, according to a statement on the county’s website. Nearly 80 percent of those doses have gone to hospitals, physicians, clinics, and pharmacies, …

Apple Valley is seeking people to serve on its new budget advisory committee. The committee, which the town council voted to form Tuesday, will advise the council on where and how the town’s revenue should be spent, according to a statement on the town’s website. The 15-member panel – 10 …

Riverside County has activated its Type III All-Hazard Incident Management Team, which will help put together a COVID-19 vaccination program for more than two million county residents. The team will work seven days a week to secure locations and set up sites that will be able to treat thousands of …