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Lizette Velazquez and John Lane have been named outstanding students for 2023 at Cal State San Bernardino’s Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration. Velazquez earned master’s degrees in entrepreneurship-innovation and cybersecurity, making her the school’s outstanding graduate for the recently concluded academic year, according to a statement …

Alejandra Ramirez has been named the 2023 outstanding undergraduate student on Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert campus. The Cathedral City native received a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology at the school’s Natural Sciences commencement, held May 20, at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, according to a statement on the university’s …

Some state lawmakers are recommending that $3 billion be included permanently in the state budget to be spent on affordable housing and reducing homelessness. More than two dozen assembly members and senators have signed a letter supporting the League of California Cities’ request for that funding, according to a statement …

Starting May 30, part of Bear Valley Road in Victorville will be closed to accommodate a bridge widening project. The eastbound lane between Industrial Boulevard and Ridgecrest Road will be shut down from approximately 9 p.m. to 5 p.m. through June 2, according to a statement on the city’s website. …

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation meant to restrict the growth of California’s gaming industry for the next 20 years. Assembly Bill 341, which Newsom signed into law May 21, returns provisions sponsored by the cardroom industry in the 1997 Gambling Control Act which kept California from issuing new cardroom …

Marty Ralph, director of the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at UC San Diego, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Southern California Water Conference. The conference, titled Responding to Water Extremes,” will deal with a future of “weather whiplash,” in which extremely dry conditions will be …