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The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday agreed to move forward with a plan that will refine and reorganize the March Joint Powers Authority, the agency that oversees March Air Reserve Base and is in charge of development there. In a 5-0 vote, the board declared that preserving and protecting …

Beaumont is pledging its full cooperation with the Riverside County District Attorney’s office in that office’s investigation into the city’s corruption scandal. City officials are also taking action to make sure such a scandal never happens again, Mayor Mike Lara said in a statement. “We have been cooperating with all …

Charges have been filed against seven former Beaumont officials. The charges stem from a public corruption case in which nearly $43 million went missing from city coffers, Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin announced in a statement released Tuesday. Former City Manager Alan Kapanicas, former Economic Development Director David Dillon, …

Riverside’s hiring freeze, implemented last Friday in an attempt to help curb the city’s $7.2 million budget deficit, could be extended beyond the end of next month, a Riverside official said Tuesday. Officially, the freeze – which also includes a ban on most general fund spending – was to have …

Temecula has reached an agreement to buy solar power from a company in Northern California. The transaction with SMER Research 1 LLC in Loomis, near Sacramento, will allow the city to buy electrical power that it will use at different city facilities, according to a statement on the city’s website. …

Officials from Riverside’s business, education and government sectors are examining ways the city can create an innovation district. The Innovation District Working Group will make recommendations to the city council regarding how to create such an entity and where it might be located, with the goal of creating a 21st …