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Walgreens will close 1,200 stores in the next three years, starting with 500 closings next year, the company has announced. The Deerborn, Ill.-based pharmacy chain will shutter about 14 percent of its U.S. locations and reassign most of the employees in those sites, according to multiple reports. Exact locations were …

San Bernardino County has received an $11 million state grant that it will use to remove a large homeless encampment in San Bernardino. The funds will help the county’s Office of Homeless Services relocate homeless people in the Highland Avenue Corridor, which runs parallel to the Foothill Freeway in San …

Perris has opened a skate park at Paragon Park. A ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Mayor Michael M. Vargas, City Manager Clara Miramontes and other city dignitaries was held Oct. 10, according to a statement on the city’s website. The $2.2 million project covers 15,000 square feet and includes in-ground bowls …

California has donated 320 acres to the Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians. The state’s Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy recently handed over the ancestral land in the San Jacinto Mountains to the federally recognized tribe, according to a statement on the tribe’s website. “Returning these lands to the Agua Caliente …

The UC Riverside School of Business has begun using a four-story building needed to handle increased enrollment. The $87 million structure on the south end of campus next to to Anderson Hall opened in late September, according to a statement on the university’s website. It includes two 80-seat classrooms, administrative …

Moreno Valley has added WiFi to three of its parks, bringing the total number of parks and other facilities to 35 in the city with that technology. Westbluff Park, Morrison Park and Rock Ridge Park all recently received the network adapter that makes wireless access to the internet possible, according to …