City / County News

Riverside is one of 16 cities nationwide chosen to participate in the 2025 LEED for Cities Cohort, a program led by the U.S. Green Building Council. The building council, a leading authority on greenhouse building worldwide, conducts the Cities Cohort as part of its Local Government Leadership Program, according to a …

Both Riverside and San Bernardino counties are claiming progress in their efforts to reduce their homeless populations, according to data released this month. Riverside County identified 3,990 people who were living in a homeless shelter or on the street during its annual Point-in-Time Count, which county officials and a team …

San Bernardino County is close to receiving a $38.7 million state grant that it will use to build a facility to help homeless people. The county’s Behavioral Health Department has received a conditional award letter from the the state Department of Health Care Services confirming the $38.7 million the county …

Apple Valley’s Measure P Oversight Committee recently held its first meeting during which it considered upgrading the town’s contract with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. After taking their oath of office in the town council chambers, the five-member panel discussed adding one sergeant, eight deputies, and one sheriff’s service …

Riverside has slowed the growth of its homeless population, and steered more people into shelters than it ever has, according to a statement on the city’s website. The city had 614 unsheltered individuals living within its borders, up from 605 one year earlier and 307 in 2022, according to the annual …

Palm Springs has added to the city’s website a link regarding the May 17 bombing of a fertility clinic that left one person dead and four wounded. The link, the first listed at engagepalmsprings.com, provides updates on the terrorist act at the American Reproductive Centers Clinic, 1199 N. Indian Canyon …