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Unofficially, March 24th will be Aldi Day in the Inland Empire. The global discount supermarket chain is scheduled to open eight stores in Riverside and San Bernardino counties that day, the company’s first stores in Southern California, according to a statement released Monday. Each of those stores will host a …

The Rancho Cucamonga Chamber of Commerce has a new executive director. Karen Gaffney, who has more than 15 years experience in chamber of commerce management, took over her new position last month, according to a chamber statement. Gaffney, who spent the last five years running the San Dimas Chamber of …

The U.S. economy added 242,000 jobs in February, according to data released Friday. Despite that, the national unemployment rate remained at 4.9 percent, unchanged compared with January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in its monthly jobs study. Most of those job gains happened in health care [57,000], retail …

The $4 billion project would be developed by a company in Canada, but more than a few people are skeptical the project will ever happen. Want to go to the moon? How about Coachella instead? As strange as that may sound, that could be an option as early as 2022 …

Curt Watts has been named head of Cathedral City’s economic development department. Watts, who has held similar positions in Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage, will work with Economic Development Manager Leisa Lukes to attract new businesses to the desert city and encourage development there, according to a city statement. Watts …

Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam will speak March 11 at Riverside City Hall. Putnam, called “the most influential academic in the world” by the Times of London for his research into social capital, will discuss his latest book, “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis,” according to a statement released …