The Victor Valley Transit Authority has reached an agreement with a multinational transportation company to operate the authority’s transit services. Keolis, which operates buses, rapid transit, trams, coach networks, and other forms of public transit, is scheduled to begin operating Oct. 1, according to a statement. Terms of the five-year …
Read More »Alaska Airlines adds PSP flights
Alaska Airlines will soon begin non-stop service from Palm Springs International Airport to San Jose, Reno/Lake Tahoe, Nevada and Boise, Idaho. Starting Dec. 17, the airline will offer daily flights to San Jose and Boise and five flights weekly to Reno/Lake Tahoe, according to a statement. All of the routes will …
Read More »Profile in Business: The Alliance Group
A conversation with Joseph Freeno, 59, president of The Alliance Group in Rancho Cucamonga. The design-and-build construction firm with eight employees specializes in concrete tilt-ups, mostly for the industrial sector. The Northern California native spoke last week with IE Business Daily about the state of the local economy, the beginnings …
Read More »Amazon to hire 100,000
Amazon plans to hire 100,000 regular employees in the United States and Canada. The workers will be employed at the 100 fulfillment, sorting and delivery locations the company is opening this month, according to a statement. Nearly 5,000 of those hires will be in the Inland Empire, said Eileen Hards, …
Read More »Esri develops COVID-19 app
Esri in Redlands has released a smartphone app that tracks COVID-19 in all states and counties. The app, which is updated daily with data from Johns Hopkins University, provides trend lines for new cases, cumulative cases, and deaths, according to a statement. Users can quickly see where the pandemic is …
Read More »ONT passenger count perks up slightly
Nearly 200,000 passengers used Ontario International Airport in August, 43 percent of what it handled exactly one year earlier. Domestic travelers totaled more than 193,000 and International travelers about 3,0000, according to data released by the Ontario International Airport Authority. That was the third-best COVID-19 related recovery of any U.S. …
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