City / County News

Fontana and Moreno Valley have been ranked among the financially strongest cities in the United States by an online publication. The Inland Empire communities ranked second third respectively among cities with a population of 200,000 or more, according to the Jan. 9 edition of The Fiscal Times. Both cities were …

Riverside has set up a website that provides information regarding Measure Z, the one-cent-per-dollar sales tax increase city voters approved last fall. The website, RiversideCA.gov/MeasureZ, explains why city officials placed the measure on the Nov. 8 ballot, along with information on cuts that were made last summer to city services, according …

Residents may now dispose of household hazardous wastes, including antifreeze, batteries, oil and paint, at the landfills in Moreno Valley and Beaumont. The recently expanded household hazardous waste program will be available for free to Riverside County residents from 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, according to a …

The city of Rancho Cucamonga and the Rancho Cucamonga Chamber of Commerce are preparing to host the town’s annual State of the City Address. Mayor L. Dennis Michael is scheduled to deliver the address – this year’s theme is commUNITY – Feb. 23 at the Lewis Family Playhouse at the …

A defense attorney in the Colonies corruption trial took San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos to task on Wednesday, accusing him off filing a bogus case against the four defendants solely for his own political gain. Stephen Larson, counsel for Rancho Cucamonga developer Jeff Burum, concluded his opening statement …

Prosecutors in the Colonies corruption case have no evidence of bribery or any other illegal acts, an attorney for one of the four defendants in the case said Tuesday. In his day-long opening argument, Stephen Larson told the two juries that will decide the case that prosecutors presented a skewed, …