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The Riverside 2025 Strategic Plan will help set priorities and guide policy for the city. Its main goal is to get officials, particularly the city council and city manager, on the same page. Riverside is trying to plan ahead. Five years ahead, to be exact. The city council has approved …

A new antibody treatment that could decrease hospital time for people infected with COVID-19 will be distributed to hospitals and skilled nursing facilities in San Bernardino County. The U.S. government paid for the distribution of 484 units of Bamlanivimab to the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, according to …

Voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposed one percent sales tax that would have raised money for community services, so town officials must decide on some difficult budget cuts. Some have already been announced and nothing is sacred, according to officials. Apple Valley is scrambling for money. Voters in the High Desert …

Mount Vernon Avenue Bridge in San Bernardino is about go away. The 86-year-old structure between 3rd and 4th street just south of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad yard will be torn down and replaced, according to a statement on the city’s website. The bridge is scheduled to be closed …

Riverside has opened the first of several COVID-19 testing sites that feature free, self-administered tests. The tests, which have no contact with another person, were developed by Curative Inc., which has completed more than six million of the tests in 15 states, according to a statement on the city’s website. …

San Bernardino County is upping its effort to help businesses keep their employees safe during the pandemic. The COVD-19 Facility Outbreak/Cluster Reporting form, which the county introduced recently, “makes it easier to notify the county department of public health when a business suspects a potential COVID-19 outbreak at a specific …