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A new smokehouse restaurant has agreed to open in Indio. Babe’s Smokehouse and Tavern will occupy 2,300 square feet at Canopy at Citrus, a 25,000-square-foot neighborhood shopping center at 49730 Jefferson St., according to a statement. Terms of the lease were not disclosed. The restaurant, near Highway 111, is expected …

Ontario International Airport stayed hot in February, as its streak of year-over-year passenger increases reached 36 months. Passenger traffic grew nine percent during the second month of this year compared with February 2022, as the airport accommodated 413,413 domestic and 36,480 international fliers, according to data released Monday by the …

Sprouts Farmers Market will open a store in Victorville March 15, the company’s first location in the High Desert. A ribbon cutting is scheduled to be held at 6:45 a.m., 15 minutes before the store at 12450 Amargosa Road opens its doors for the first time, according to a statement …

Frontier Airlines will begin operating nonstop flights from Ontario International Airport to Seattle, El Paso and Houston in May. Flights to El Paso International Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston are scheduled to begin May 17, while the flights to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will begin May 16, according …

Macy’s Inc. will close 150 underperforming stores, starting with 50 that will be shut down by the end of the company’s current fiscal year next Feb. 1. The move, called the start of a “bold new chapter” by the New York-based department store chain, will leave the company with about …

Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit that seeks to block a proposed merger of the Kroger and Albertsons supermarket chains. Attorneys for the agency filed the suit Feb. 26, a move that was joined by eight states and the District of Columbia, according to multiple reports. The two grocers – …