Hernandez Appears Set to Claim Ward 6 Council Seat
Luis Hernandez is on track to win the Ward 6 City Council seat vacated by the resignation of Councilmember Jim Perry, according to preliminary results from the Riverside County Registrar of Voters.
About The Raincross Gazette
The Raincross Gazette is a digitally native newspaper keeping you posted on what’s happening in Riverside and how it impacts you.
The Raincross Gazette is an independent, digitally native newsroom serving Riverside, California, with meaningful Riverside news for the next 150 years — the same way The Press-Enterprise served this city for its first 150. We publish daily on the web and send a newsletter every morning at 5 a.m., covering civic news, local government, business, education, the arts, sports, history, and the everyday life of the city we love.
Our mission is simple: we publish news and events that increase the spirit of neighborliness in Riverside.
What we know about our city determines what we believe about it, and what we believe about our city determines its future.
That's why we do this. Neighborliness isn't a soft idea — it's the belief that the people who live and work in this city are worth showing up for, and that an informed, engaged Riverside is a better Riverside.
Our Coverage
The Gazette is exclusively focused on hyperlocal coverage within the city of Riverside — we don't yet cover the rest of Riverside County, and we won't until we're doing this work well enough that expanding becomes a natural, sustainable next step. Inside city limits, we try to cover every facet of Riverside life we have capacity for: government, housing, business, education, the arts, sports, history, and the community itself.
Our Team
The Gazette is published by Gold Standard Media LLC, a Riverside-based company founded by Riverside native Justin Pardee. The core team:
- Justin Pardee — Founder & Publisher
- Amy López — Managing Editor
- Micaela Ricaforte — Civic Engagement Reporter
- Laniea Dominguez — Advertising Director
Beyond the core team, we work with a growing roster of contributing writers and Community Contributors — Riversiders writing about the neighborhoods, institutions, and topics they know best.
Our Story
For two decades, Riverside watched its hometown paper retreat. First in pages, then in reporters, then in relevance. By the late 2010s, a city of more than 300,000 people was running without a real newsroom watching City Hall, and Riverside was increasingly getting defined by people who don't live here, by headlines written by newsrooms that don't know us.
Justin Pardee, a Riverside native with no formal training in journalism, started the Gazette as a one-man, $5-a-month email newsletter in January 2021, working with a contract reporter through that first year and a small group of freelance contributors as the newsroom took shape. The premise was simple: Riverside deserves a newsroom that wakes up every morning thinking about this city the way we do. A year later, the Gazette expanded into a full web publication. A year after that, the paywall came down, because a city's news shouldn't be reserved for the people who can afford to pay for it.
Everything since has been about building the newsroom Riverside deserves: outside investment to fund expansion, a Managing Editor, a full-time City Hall reporter, and an Advertising Director leading a hyperlocal program built specifically for Riverside-based businesses.
Join us on the journey, subscribe to our free daily newsletter. It's how 15,000 Riversiders start their day, and it's the easiest way to keep up with the city we love. Questions, feedback, story tips, or ideas? Get in touch.
The Raincross Gazette is a publication of Gold Standard Media LLC, Riverside, California.