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Amazon Moreno Valley is Great for City Moreno Valley officials spent the past six months negotiating with Amazon.com to bring a fulfillment center to the city, and their efforts paid off this week. The online retail giant announced Tuesday that it will build a 1.2 million-square-foot facility in Moreno Valley, much to …

Banning Municipal Airport is about to get a new fueling station, the first of several improvements planned for the city-owned airport. The above-ground “fuel farm” will be built on the west end of the airport and will replace an underground fuel tank on the airport’s east side, said Art Vela, …

Jurupa Valley, which became a city less than three years ago, might be forced to return to being a county-run community, although its battle is far from over For Jurupa Valley, incorporation might end before it really got started. Two days before it officially became a city, on June 28, …

According to a report that first appeared in the Press-Enterprise, a Temecula attorney is suing Murrieta regarding the city’s ban on medical marijuana. Ray Johnson, who is best known for filing lawsuits against developers, is challenging Murrieta’s ban on marijuana dispensaries in all parts of the city and its prohibition …

Advocates of local control of Ontario International Airport just got more ammunition for their cause: passenger numbers there dropped dramatically in August. The rate of passenger traffic dropped 14.6 percent compared with August 2012, a worse decline than board members of the Ontario International Airport Authority were told to expect …

Hemet has a new city manager. Wally Hill, who most recently served as San Diego’s assistant chief operating officer, was hired by the Hemet City Council Tuesday, according to a published report. Council members voted 4-0 to hire Hill, who served in San Diego from 2009 until January of this …