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California’s unemployment rate rose to 5.3 percent in March, a 1.4 percent month-over-month increase that marked the end of 120 consecutive months of job gains dating to the end of the Great Recession. As bad as those numbers are, they may tell only half the story of how much damage …

Less than three months before it’s scheduled to launch, the Menifee Police Department has hired its third lieutenant. Abigail Valle, who has 16 years experience with the Huntington Park Police Department, joins Lieutenants Denise Keith and Heriberto “Eddie” Gutierrez, according to a statement on the city’s website. Valle’s background includes …

Rep. Norma Torres, D- Ontario, has announced that more than $184.5 million from the U.S. Department of Education will benefit residents of her district as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.  The grant includes more than $43.5 million for institutions of higher learning, and more than …

Redlands-based Esri is providing its mapping and analytics technology to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help it in its battle against COVID-19.  The technology, which Esri is providing for free, is being distributed to FEMA partners and organizations nationwide, according to a statement. This collaboration is part of Esri’s  …

San Bernardino County has received $1.3 million from Pacific Gas & Electric Co, part of a $386 million payment in property tax and franchise fees the company made recently to areas in which it does business. On April 10, the company paid nearly $255 million in property taxes to the …

The COVID-19 pandemic inflicted its first serious damage on Ontario International Airport in March, but only on one side of the ledger. First, the bad side: passenger traffic fell 46.4 percent compared with March 2019, a decline caused mostly by the stay-at-home orders issued by the state and counties, the …