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Riverside County has been awarded $25.5 million to create 119 permanent housing units for persons with “severe and persistent” mental illness. The money, from the state’s No Place Like Home program, will help people who are homeless, chronically homeless, or at risk of being homeless, according to a statement released …

The money, part of a larger statewide program, will be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the community through environmental means, including planting trees, installing free solar panels, and if things go as planned, getting people to walk more and drive less.   Riverside’s historic Eastside Neighborhood is about …

Riverside Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson and Police Chief Larry Gonzalez met with Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday at a roundtable and press conference. The event, attended by mayors and police chiefs from California’s 13 largest cities, was a discussion on how to address crime and reduce organized theft statewide, according to …

A planned 71-unit affordable housing project in Palm Springs for senior citizens has received a boost from state of California. The Department of Housing and Community Development’s has donated $6.4 million to West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation, developer of Aloe Palm Canyon, according to a statement. That project, which the …

Riverside, in partnership with several nonprofits and state government entities, has started a $9.1 million completion of the “smart growth” project in its Eastside neighborhood. The Eastside Climate Collaborative is a part of a state-funded $31.2 million initiative meant to improve the neighborhood and reduce the effects of climate change …

There’s an environmental crisis brewing in the Chino Water Basin, and the Monte Vista Water District wants to solve it before it gets worse. The Monte Vista Water District in Montclair is planning to do something it’s never done in its 94-year history: get into the sewer business. District officials …