San Bernardino has approved a $330 million budget that includes nearly $10 million for infrastructure projects. The 2026-’27 fiscal year budget, which the city council passed unanimously earlier this month, includes a general fund with a reserve of approximately $105 million, according to a statement on the city’s website. The …
Read More »Ontario hopes art will make its new downtown more attractive
Ontario’s next step in reviving its downtown is an artistic one. The Downtown Ontario Improvement Association and the city’s Museum, Arts & Culture Department have started a program designed to improve the appearance of storefronts along a stretch of Euclid Avenue. “The People’s Storefront” is inviting local artists to create …
Read More »Riverside County passes budget
Riverside County has approved the recommended $10.3 billion budget for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. The budget, which the board of supervisors approved unanimously, “reflects a slowing revenue environment, rising operating costs, and increasing demand for County services,” according to a statement on the county’s website. The budget includes $3.1 billion …
Read More »Massive High Desert rail facility approved
The Barstow City Council has approved a 4,500-acre integrated rail facility that BNSF plans to develop on the west side of the High Desert city. Barstow International Gateway (BIG) will include a rail yard, intermodal facility, and warehouses that will move freight from international containers to domestic containers more efficiently, …
Read More »Parts of Corona, Riverside to get high-speed internet
A Broomfield, Colo. -based company will provide high-speed internet access to more than 50,000 homes and businesses in Corona and Riverside. Intrepid Fiber Networks will provide multi-gigabit broadband to both cities through a process called build fiber-to-the-premises infrastructure, in which internet access is goes directly to the user from a …
Read More »Riverside appoints interim city manager
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 …
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