A local water district is set to buy land near a lake in Southwest Riverside County. Rancho California Water District will pay nearly $50 million for the 7,995-acre site at Vail Lake, a popular recreation site, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. The district was awarded the property earlier …
Read More »Retail sales stay strong
August is looking like a strong retail month. National retail sales rose 3.8 percent year-over-year for the week that ended Saturday, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store Sales Index. Sales have increased all three weeks this month compared with 2013, according to …
Read More »Lawsuit accuses Riverside of unfair housing practices
The Fair Housing Council of Riverside County has filed a housing discrimination lawsuit against Riverside. The council maintains that a Riverside ordinance that limits how many people may rent single-family homes in the city, as well as a regulation that requires some people to get a permit before they can …
Read More »Convenience store/service station breaks ground
A groundbreaking ceremony was held today in San Jacinto for a combined Circle K and Mobil service station. The project, at the northwest corner of Sanderson and Esplanade avenues, is expected to be ready for business late this year, according to officials with Southland Development Co. in San Juan Capistrano, …
Read More »Older houses and commercial buildings make it harder to fight the drought.
An official with the California Building Industry Association says replacing older toilets and other water fixtures is crucial and will go a long way toward saving water, but the job won’t be easy. Robert Raymer believes he’s identified a way to help California get through the drought, now in its …
Read More »County Uses Renewable Energy Ordinance to Kill 50 Union Jobs
The first time San Bernardino County applied its Renewable Energy Ordinance, the result was a loss for solar energy and skilled workers in the middle of an economic crisis. The ordinance was used to deny Clean Focus Corporation its application to build a job-creating solar generation facility on 23 acres …
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