City / County News

Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District – RivCoParks – has received a $1.7 million grant from the CAL Fire California Climates Wildfire Prevention Program. CAL Fire provides funding for local projects and activities that reduce the risk of wildfires, according to a statement on the county’s website. Those activities include …

San Bernardino County is asking for volunteers to help conduct next year’s Point-In-Time Count. The annual one-night count of unsheltered individuals sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is scheduled to be held Jan. 23, according to a statement on the county’s website. The nationwide count helps …

San Bernardino’s long-planned removal of homeless encampments from its parks is underway. On Nov. 14, city staff began issuing last-minute warnings to unhoused individuals in Perris Hill Park informing them that the facility at 1135 E. Highland Ave. was to be cleaned for health and safety reasons, and that they were …

Palm Springs has approved a $5.9 million settlement with African-American and Latino families whose homes were leveled by the city during the 1950s and 1960s. The city council’s unanimous decision Nov. 14 compensates families who lived on land known as Section 14, which was owned by the Agua Caliente Band of …

Rancho Cucamonga has received a $200,000 state grant that will assist its Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Program. The grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety will help promote “safe practices” for bicyclists and pedestrians, while urging motorists to drive safely, according to a statement on the city’s website. “This …

San Bernardino County has received $11.2 million from the state that it will use to develop interim and permanent housing at its Pacific Village homeless campus in San Bernardino. The grant, from the California Department of Housing and Community Development, is part of the department’s Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention …