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Edward Enriquez has been named Riverside’s interim city manager. Enriquez, the city’s assistant city manager since 2022, takes over for Mike Futrell, who resigned June 16, according to reports. Council members met in closed session during their regularly scheduled meeting that evening and discussed possibly discipling Futrell, whose agreement to …

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors has approved spending $900,000 on upgrades at the Rancho Cucamonga Family Resource Center. Improvements will include a new roof, outdoor painting, signs, restroom upgrades, landscaping, a repaved parking lot, and new furniture, according to Second District Supervisor Jesse Armendarez III. Armendarez, whose district …

Construction on the Ramon Road Bridge Project is scheduled to begin this fall. The bridge, which connects Palm Springs and Cathedral City, handles about 40,000 vehicles a day while providing access to Palm Spring International Airport, according to a statement on Palm Springs’ website. The east-west bridge was built in …

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors has approved a $10.9 billion budget for the fiscal year 2026-’27. That represents a decrease of $26.1 million – 0.24 percent – from the current fiscal year budget, but enough to pay for 27,592 positions countywide, a net increase of 94 positions year-over-year, …

Indio has announced plans to build a police headquarters, the next phase in the desert city’s Public Safety Campus. The $45 million project at 46800 Jackson St. will be the department’s “primary hub” for the department’s officers, sergeants, community service officers, support staff, and command staff, according to a statement …

The San Bernardino County Transportation Authority has approved a budget of more than $1.4 billion for the fiscal year 2026-’27, the largest outlay in its history. The budget, which follows months of planning and a review of each the authority’s policy committees, includes approximately $1.1 billion in new revenue and …