City / County News

San Bernardino has received a $150,000 grant from the Irvine Foundation that will help pay for an economic consultant. Bruce Katz, director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University in Philadelphia, will develop an investment plan that will help the city match its financial needs with public and …

Councilman Ed A. Delgado has been named Moreno Valley’s mayor pro tem. A 25-year Moreno Valley resident, Delgado was elected in November to represent the second district, according to a statement on the city’s website. Delgado serves on the city’s economic development, public safety and parks and community services subcommittees. …

Victorville fire department personnel have approved a contract that gives them their first increase in salary and benefits in four years. The five-year agreement, which department members approved unanimously, calls for a 23.6 percent salary increase for firefighter-paramedics during the first year of the agreement. The contract also provides a …

Construction has begun on affordable housing that will serve foster youth in Riverside County. Three single-family homes in the 16000 block of Perris Boulevard in Moreno Valley are being converted into 12 single-occupancy units that will be available to young people moving out of foster care and low-income families with …

Riverside County has agreed to help speed up the development of affordable housing in the Coachella Valley. The board of supervisors Wednesday unanimously approved putting $2 million into the Coachella Valley Regional Housing Catalyst Fund, according to a statement. The money will be taken from the Fourth District’s federal American …

For the first time in six years, Riverside County has recorded a decrease in unsheltered homeless persons. That number dropped eight percent compared with 2020 in this year’s point-in-time count, which was conducted in February, according to a statement on the county’s website. Riverside County officials are attributing the decline to …