Riverside’s hiring freeze, implemented last Friday in an attempt to help curb the city’s $7.2 million budget deficit, could be extended beyond the end of next month, a Riverside official said Tuesday. Officially, the freeze – which also includes a ban on most general fund spending – was to have …
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Temecula has reached an agreement to buy solar power from a company in Northern California. The transaction with SMER Research 1 LLC in Loomis, near Sacramento, will allow the city to buy electrical power that it will use at different city facilities, according to a statement on the city’s website. …
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The Southern California housing market hit a bump in the road in April, experiencing a year-over-year drop for the second time in 12 months. Sales in the six-county region were down 3.2 percent compared with April 2016, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported its monthly report on the Southern California housing market, which …
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Officials from Riverside’s business, education and government sectors are examining ways the city can create an innovation district. The Innovation District Working Group will make recommendations to the city council regarding how to create such an entity and where it might be located, with the goal of creating a 21st …
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Metrolink will begin service along the 91 Freeway/Perris Valley Line June 6. The new service, the first extension of any Metrolink operation since 1994, will bring the rail line to four additional Riverside County stations: Riverside-Hunter Park-UC Riverside, Moreno-Valley-March Field, Perris-Downtown and Perris-South, according to a statement by Metrolink and …
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Riley Distillery, producer of bourbon and whiskey, started in 2014 and is just now making inroads into the local market. Some changes by the state might make that task easier, according to the business’ co-owners. Like any entrepreneur, Jason Riley would like to see the business he started grow into …
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