City / County News

The San Bernardino County Transportation Authority is recommending an extension of Measure I, the half-cent sales tax that went into effect in 1990. Earlier this month, the authority’s board of directors voted unanimously to ask the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors to place the extension on the Nov. 3 …

San Bernardino has approved a $330 million budget that includes nearly $10 million for infrastructure projects. The 2026-’27 fiscal year budget, which the city council passed unanimously earlier this month, includes a general fund with a reserve of approximately $105 million, according to a statement on the city’s website. The …

Ontario’s next step in reviving its downtown is an artistic one. The Downtown Ontario Improvement Association and the city’s Museum, Arts & Culture Department have started a program designed to improve the appearance of storefronts along a stretch of Euclid Avenue. “The People’s Storefront” is inviting local artists to create …

Riverside County has approved the recommended $10.3 billion budget for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. The budget, which the board of supervisors approved unanimously, “reflects a slowing revenue environment, rising operating costs, and increasing demand for County services,” according to a statement on the county’s website. The budget includes $3.1 billion …

The Barstow City Council has approved a 4,500-acre integrated rail facility that BNSF plans to develop on the west side of the High Desert city. Barstow International Gateway (BIG) will include a rail yard, intermodal facility, and warehouses that will move freight from international containers to domestic containers more efficiently, …

A Broomfield, Colo. -based company will provide high-speed internet access to more than 50,000 homes and businesses in Corona and Riverside. Intrepid Fiber Networks will provide multi-gigabit broadband to both cities through a process called build fiber-to-the-premises infrastructure, in which internet access is goes directly to the user from a …