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Palm Springs has announced they are accepting applications for its $1 million COVID-19 Small Business Financial Aid Program. Eligible businesses will receive a zero percent $10,000 loan that will be forgiven if the business stays open for at least six months, according to a statement on the city’s website. The …

San Bernardino County, in partnership with the Inland Empire Community Foundation, has awarded $3.4 million to 216 nonprofits. The funding, distributed through the county’s Nonprofit Assistance Fund, is meant to help organizations that have struggled to maintain services during COVID-19, according to a foundation statement released yesterday. The grants ranged …

California residents who have been hurt financially by COVID-19 may be allowed to defer their property tax payments. Under the Property Tax Postponement Program, homeowners 62 years old or older and taxpayers with a disability may be allowed to defer their 2021 property tax payments on their principal residence, according …

Small businesses in Riverside that have been hurt by COVID-19 could get help from the city with their utility costs. About 3,300 businesses could be eligible for the program, which allows small businesses to apply their deposits to their account balance with the Riverside Public Utility, accord to a statement …

Riverside is scheduled to open its first COVID-19 vaccination site Saturday. As many as 500 vaccinations will be available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the large parking lot north of the Riverside Convention Center, according to a statement on the city’s website. The clinic plans to stay open …

The regulations, aimed mostly at health and safety issues, are a response to state legislation meant to put sidewalk vendors and regular businesses in equal competition with each other. How effectively those rules will be enforced remains a question. Apple Valley has adopted regulations regarding sidewalk vendors, measures designed to …