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Palm Springs has ordered its essential businesses to make their employees and patrons wear face coverings throughout the COVID-19 epidemic. The order, issued Monday, reinforces an identical order issued by Riverside County, according to a statement on the city’s website. All businesses must post signs explaining the requirement to people before …

Riverside County has created a smartphone app and an online form to report anyone who violates state or county designed to stop the spread of the Coronavirus. RivCoMobile – which also provides services and information to residents – has a “Coronavirus” feature on the landing page that can be used …

Moreno Valley has declined to raised its utility rates. Council members Tuesday refused to vote on a resolution that would have kept the city’s utility rates commensurate with Southern California Edison rates, according to a statement on the city’s website. “Raising utility rates is the last thing we would even …

Riverside has been given 15 trailers from the state Department of Emergency Services that it’s using to help homeless people during the COVID-19 pandemic. The trailers at Riverside Airport are available to homeless people who are showing symptoms of the viral disease but who are able to care for themselves, …

A former Sears building in Riverside will serve as a temporary hospital for Riverside County during the COVID-19 epidemic. The 90,0000-square-foot building in the 5200 block of Arlington Ave. will be the county’s second federal medical station, with 125 beds and equipment from the U.S. Department of Health and Human …

San Bernardino County residents must wear a face covering while out in public in order to help slow the spread of the Coronavirus. An order to that effect was issued Tuesday by Dr. Erin Gustafson, the county’s acting public officer, according to a statement on the county’s website. Violators may …