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The Inland Empire recorded a 7.2 percent unemployment rate in May, down slightly from April and well below the 14.9 percent predicted one year ago. Riverside County’s unemployment rate was 7.2 percent, San Bernardino County’s 7.3 percent, according to data released last week by the California Employment Development Department. One …

Sales of existing single-family homes in California’s eased slightly in May, possibly the result of “buyer fatigue,” according to the California Association of Realtors. Overall sales were 445,600 in May, down 2.7 percent in April and up 86.7 percent year-over-year, the Los Angeles-based association reported Wednesday. At the same time, …

Daryle Williams will be UC Riverside’s next dean of the college of humanities, arts, and social sciences. Williams is scheduled to begin his new job Sept. 1, according to a statement on the university’s website. He is currently associate dean for faculty affairs in the college of arts and humanities at …

Brad Jensen has been named San Bernardino County’s government and legislative affairs director. For the past eight years, Jensen has been the public policy director with the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership, representing that organization in its dealings with public and private coalitions, according to a statement. Jensen was hired …

Things are definitely looking up at Ontario International Airport. Passenger traffic in May was nearly 80 percent of where it was before COVID-19 hit in the spring of 2020, according to data released Wednesday by the Ontario International Airport Authority. Nearly 367,000 passengers passed through the airport during the fifth …

Forever Marilyn is returning to Palm Springs. The 26-foot sculpture of Marilyn Monroe that spent two years in downtown Palm Springs, from 2012 to 2014, will be unveiled Saturday at Museum Way and Bellardo Road. The sculpture, by the late artist Seward Johnson, was first displayed in Chicago in 2011. …