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Hesperia’s Redevelopment Review Committee will discuss extending for the fourth time a project at Hesperia Civic Plaza Park. Plans calls for construction of a restroom-concession building that would cover 700 square feet, as well as shuffle board and bocce ball facilities and table for chess and reading, according to report …

Today, Friends of the Big Bear Zoo (FOBBAZ) announced that Subaru of San Bernardino will be the premier sponsor for its inaugural Golf Tournament to be held Friday, February 7 at the Classic Club in Palm Desert. Funds raised at the tournament will be committed to building a new Himalayan …

Officials with Ontario and Los Angeles International Airports will consider changes later this year to the parking management at Ontario International. The airport’s contract with Parking Concepts Inc. expires this year, and officials plan to solicit bids during the next few months to operate the airport’s estimated 6,700 parking slots, …

Gov. Jerry Brown visited Riverside County this week and pledged to take a second look at the state’s diversion of vehicle license fees away from cities, a move that has hurt four new cities in the county. Brown told local government officials that he has heard numerous pleas for help …

Temecula wants more affordable housing. The city wants to create a special zoning designation called an “Affordable Housing Overlay” that would encourage the development of roughly 2,000 affordable housing units on various properties throughout the city, according to a report that originally appeared in The Press-Enterprise. Such a designation would …

A local Native American tribe is suing Riverside County regarding a tax that tribal official believe is illegal. The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians filed a lawsuit in federal court that seeks to prevent the county from collecting a “possessory interest tax”, which the tribe maintains is illegal, according …