A groundbreaking ceremony was held today in Fresno on the Bullet Train, the high-speed rail system that will transport passengers between Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours. Construction will soon begin on the project’s first phase, a 28-mile stretch from Fresno north to Madera, according to …
Read More »Toro takes a bow for water conservation
The Toro Company in Riverside is being credited with helping to conserve water statewide through its FreeSprinklerNozzles.com program. That program, which was started in 2010 by the Riverside Public Utilities and Western Municipal Water District, has now retrofitted more than 1.3 million high-flow sprinkler nozzles with the Toro Precision Series …
Read More »Toro takes a bow for water conservation
The Toro Company in Riverside is being credited with helping to conserve water statewide through its FreeSprinklerNozzles.com program. That program, which was started in 2010 by the Riverside Public Utilities and Western Municipal Water District, has now retrofitted more than 1.3 million high-flow sprinkler nozzles with the Toro Precision Series …
Read More »Former RV facility to reopen
A division of Berkshire Hathaway has purchased the former location of a recreational vehicle manufacturer in Hemet. Forest River Inc. bought the plant once used by Skyline Corp. from KPL Scaffold in China last month, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. Cost of the transaction was not revealed. Skyline …
Read More »Grant will help fight Inland poverty
The Inland Empire Economic Partnership has received a $300,000 grant that will help the non-profit organization start a program designed to move local families out of poverty and into the middle class. The donation, from the James Irvine Foundation, will be used to help start The Launch Initiative, a regional …
Read More »Amazon.com, Ontario International Airport made news in 2014
The Inland Empire was a busy place during the last 12 months, as the industrial market sped on and housing market struggled to regain its footing. The labor disputes at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach could spill over into 2015 The opening of a massive fulfillment center …
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