City Council will consider a 45-day moratorium on new tobacco retail permits following widespread illegal drug sales at smoke shops and award a $19.7 million contract to renovate the nearly century-old Cesar Chavez Community Center.
This week’s agendas include a Council vote on a 45-day smoke shop moratorium and a $19.7M Chavez Center renovation, plus earthquake prep tips and a water update.
From securing furniture to retrofitting homes and weighing insurance, here’s how Riversiders can prepare for the next big quake—plus an update on California’s latest water bill.
California Baptist University’s STUNT team claimed its first-ever DI/DII STUNT National Championship title on Saturday in a 19-11 win over Oklahoma Baptist University. The lancers recorded a historic season with a perfect 15-0 record, also claiming the West Coast Conference Championship. Throughout
As an organization facing the continuing hunger crisis in the Inland Empire, Feeding America Riverside | San Bernardino (FARSB) has implemented new ways of serving the food insecure during the pandemic. For months after March 2020, the uncertainty of COVID-19 meant FARSB had to turn away volunteers
The California Baptist University athletics department secured their place at number one school in the nation for NCAA league title wins, tied only with the University of Texas. The CBU Lancers claimed six 2020-2021 conference championships in men’s and women’s cross country, men’s water polo, STUNT
Purchasing meals from food trucks and food vendors has been a staple of big-city life for a couple of decades, however the trend has only come to downtown Riverside in recent years. As a result of this trend, the city of Riverside’s Community and Economic Development department are hosting two virtu
A vision for Riverside’s economic future grows as startups get in line for a University of California, Riverside (UCR) initiative aimed at creating jobs focused on sustainability. Opportunities to Advance Sustainability, Innovation, and Social Inclusion (OASIS), is UCR’s newest regional economic ini
Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of when 30 temporary-shelter units were built near Massachusetts Avenue, which have since housed over 100 individuals experiencing homelessess. In early 2020, Riverside’s Office of Homeless Solutions partnered with City Net Riverside to open and operate the Ri
One year ago on St. Patrick’s Day, Shelby Worthington rushed to freeze 600 pounds of corned beef when restaurant doors across the entire state had to close at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Worthington serves as president of the Downtown Riverside Partnership and is the owner of the downtow
Indian cyclist Somen Debnath rode into Riverside last week on his 17-year tour around the world, greeting Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson before heading to San Diego. What began as a trip to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS throughout India when he was 20-years-old, is now what he calls his worldwide mission
A state-mandated October deadline looms over the city to cough up space for 24,000 new homes, but some Riversiders are left wondering if they are only “best-laid plans.” The Community and Economic Development Department, or CEDD, is working in partnership with six consultant companies as they prepar
City council unanimously approved a $2.6 million contract on Tuesday to commence road construction on more than three miles of major and minor streets in Wards 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Ed Lara, principal engineer with the Riverside Public Works Department, said in Tuesday’s city council meeting that constr
As 12,000 elementary students prepare to head back to the classroom throughout Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) next week, district leadership says secondary students are not far behind. Starting Tuesday, March 9th, the 60 percent of RUSD families who selected the in-person model for the 202
After negotiating an employment agreement in 2018 that would make him one of the highest-paid city managers in California and later getting terminated without cause, former Riverside City Manager John Russo just sold his city-funded home. In February 2018, Russo brought a revised employment agreemen
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