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The one percent sales tax, which is being funneled into the city’s police and fire departments, has already paid for three battalion chief and the renovation of a fire station. The question now is whether the measure, which passed easily, will keep producing.  Twelve months after Hemet voters approved Measure …

Ross Matthews, the television personality best known as “Ross the Intern” on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, will be Grand Marshal of the 25th annual Palm Springs Festival of Light Parade. The parade, which regularly attracts about 100,000 people to downtown Palm Springs, is scheduled to be held Dec. …

Palm Springs has filed a “friend of the court” brief supporting equal rights and non-discrimination for the LGBTQ community. The brief, signed by 70 other cities and the U.S. Council of Mayors, was submitted Monday in connection with the upcoming case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Masterpiece Cakeshop, LTD v. …

A major manufacturer of kitchen, bath and facial tissues is moving to Moreno Valley. Solaris Paper will occupy a 862,000-square-foot industrial building that is under construction at Pro Logis Park Moreno Valley Eucalyptus, said Mike Lee, the city’s community and economic development director. About 175 people will work there. Solaris …

Redlands has cleared four homeless encampments on public property during the past several weeks, after police told the transients they had to vacate and remove their possessions from the properties. In October, a contract crew cleaned two sites that contained possible hazardous waste in a city-owned orange grove between California …

The Riverside Police Department has received $608,000 from the California Office of Traffic Safety that it will use to help stop traffic-related deaths and injuries. Announced earlier this month, the grant will pay for a one-year program of “special enforcement and public awareness efforts” that are part of Riverside’s effort …