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Apple Valley will step up its efforts to decrease unsafe driving. A grant of nearly $70,000 will allow the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department to focus more on drunken drivers, violators of the state’s hands-free cell phone laws and other drivers dangerous to pedestrians and bicycle riders, according to a …

Moreno Valley has approved the second phase of its ongoing pavement rehabilitation program. If all goes as planned, five years of road rehabilitation will be condensed into nine months, with construction expected to begin next year, according to a statement by the city. The city council unanimously approved the second …

Phase one of Moreno Valley’s $50 million pavement rehabilitation program is underway. The project will repave nearly 190 miles of arterial, and neighborhood roads throughout the city, according to the statement on the city’s website. Council members approved the project in February, and in June agreed to spend $29 million …

Jeff Burum, an Inland Empire commercial and residential developer for more than three decades, wants San Bernardino County to secede from California. Some people, starting with the county board of supervisors, believe that’s an idea worth considering.    Longtime Inland Empire developer Jeff Burum is convinced that San Bernardino County is not …

The Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival will return to being an annual event under an agreement approved Tuesday by the board of supervisors. A new partnership between the county and Pickering Events LLC puts that company in charge of operating the Riverside County fairgrounds and fair for five …

San Bernardino has received a $150,000 grant from the Irvine Foundation that will help pay for an economic consultant. Bruce Katz, director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University in Philadelphia, will develop an investment plan that will help the city match its financial needs with public and …