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Riverside Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson and Police Chief Larry Gonzalez met with Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday at a roundtable and press conference. The event, attended by mayors and police chiefs from California’s 13 largest cities, was a discussion on how to address crime and reduce organized theft statewide, according to …

A planned 71-unit affordable housing project in Palm Springs for senior citizens has received a boost from state of California. The Department of Housing and Community Development’s has donated $6.4 million to West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation, developer of Aloe Palm Canyon, according to a statement. That project, which the …

Riverside, in partnership with several nonprofits and state government entities, has started a $9.1 million completion of the “smart growth” project in its Eastside neighborhood. The Eastside Climate Collaborative is a part of a state-funded $31.2 million initiative meant to improve the neighborhood and reduce the effects of climate change …

There’s an environmental crisis brewing in the Chino Water Basin, and the Monte Vista Water District wants to solve it before it gets worse. The Monte Vista Water District in Montclair is planning to do something it’s never done in its 94-year history: get into the sewer business. District officials …

The vaccine clinic at the Palm Springs Convention Center has closed and been replaced with a mobile unit that will serve the Coachella Valley. The mobile unit will be staffed by people who worked at the convention center clinic. “The vaccine site at the Palm Springs Convention Center has been …

A group of Palm Springs hotel owners is hitting back against those who oppose “Forever Marilyn,” a 26-foot sculpture of Marilyn Monroe the organization recently brought back to the city’s downtown after a seven-year absence. The non-profit P.S. Resorts commissioned a study of Coachella Valley residents that found 70 percent support …