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Riverside’s annual Fourth of July fireworks show at La Sierra Park is back on. The show, which was to have been cancelled for budget reasons, will be staged thanks to action taken by city council members Jim Perry and John Burnard, according to a statement released Monday. Perry and Burnard …

Apple Valley is offering low interest loans for local small businesses. The recently launched Apple Seed Small Business Loan Program provides low-interest financing and leverages additional private capital, both of which will help small businesses grow, according to a city statement. Loans for small businesses are hard to find and, …

Backers of Hemet’s Measure E spent Wednesday sifting through the numbers and wondering what went wrong. As for their next move, assuming there is one, it’s a little early to say. “We’re obviously disappointed, and a maybe little surprised,” Hemet Fire Chief Scott Brown said of the defeat of Measure …

By Ed Hoffman This week, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for President by either party. I hear we are supposed to be celebrating this, but I wonder if there would be the same kind of celebration for another woman – say, Carly Fiorina? Doubtful! As a …

Inland Empire home prices, including distressed sales, were up 5.9 percent in April year-over-year, according to data released Tuesday. That matched both the state and national trend: prices of single-family homes in April were up 6.6 percent in California and 6.2 percent nationwide compared with April 2015, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported …

Californians reduced their water use by 26.1 percent in April compared with April 2013, earning praise from state water officials for again exceeding the state’s water reduction goals. But that praise came with a warning: the drought is not over, and water suppliers will again face restrictions if they don’t …