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California officials Tuesday tightened restrictions on water use, limiting use by hotels and restaurants and placing an outright ban on irrigation during and immediately after measurable rainfall. The state, now in the fourth year of a drought, is completing this winter with historically low rainfall, forcing the State Water Board …

Riverside County spent more than $6 million on outside lobbying firms during a 10-year period, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. Since 2010, the county has also spent nearly $900,000 related to the California State Association of Counties and the Southern California Association of Governments, the report stated. County …

A judge has been ordered to take another look at her decision to require Los Angeles to release nearly 400 documents to Ontario in connection with the lawsuit between the two cities regarding control of Ontario International Airport. The Fourth State Court of Appeals in Riverside ruled this week that …

Workforce investment boards in San Bernardino and Riverside counties have received $2 million from the U.S. Department of Labor. The grants will be used for classroom and on-the-job training, and will also provide assistance to local businesses and people who are looking for a job, according to a report in …

The proposed expansion of the Riverside County Jail in Indio keeps getting more expensive. Officials now estimate that it will cost $331 million to build the East County Detention Center on the site of the existing jail, a 40 percent increase from the estimates made three years ago, according to …

Voters in Upland will decide next year whether to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in their city. The city council voted 3-2 to include the ballot measure – which would allow three dispensaries to operate in the northwest part of the city – on next year’s general election ballot, according to …