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Apple Valley’s plan to revitalize its downtown is scheduled to be presented to the town’s planning commission May 18. The Village Specific Plan is a blueprint for development and public improvements in a 651-acre section of the town, as well as a means to preserve that part of Apple Valley’s …

San Bernardino has approved a $2 million street improvement project. The upgrades will be made on a two-and-one-half mile stretch of Sierra Way between 3rd and 30th streets, according to an agreement approved by the city council earlier this month. I.E. General Engineering in Beaumont was awarded the contract. Work …

The county has released a 76-page plan that spells out how it will approach reducing its homeless population during next five years. Two years in the making, county officials are starting to put the plan in place.   Riverside County has adopted a comprehensive five-year report designed to reduce its …

Riverside has received a $4.4 million state grant it will use to create jobs for local youth. The Riverside Youth Job Corps was introduced May 3 by Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson at news conference at the Bourns Youth Innovation Center, according to a statement. Accompanied by U.S. Deputy Secretary of the …

San Bernardino County Fleet Management has been named the top fleet in the United States by the National Association of Fleet Administrators. The fleet management team, which acquires and maintains most of the county’s vehicles, was one of 11 California agencies listed by the association in its annual “100 Best …

San Bernardino County’s unemployment rate in March dropped to pre-COVID-19 levels, according to a county agency. Payrolls increased by nearly 10,000 to a record 976,000, while unemployment during the third month of the year fell to 4.3 percent, the Workforce Development Board reported last week. That was the county’s lowest …