🍊Your Riverside Weekend- May 16, 2026
Your Riverside Weekend- May 16, 2026 Happy Saturday, Riverside! We hope your week treated you well. Before you head into
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Riverside embraces red tier status as case numbers drop throughout the county
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
Village of shelter units celebrates one year of housing Riverside’s homeless
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
Indian activist rides into Riverside
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
Riverside’s Housing Update: What We Know
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
Students return to their new normal next week after a year at home
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
Council OKs contract for millions in road repairs
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
Our former city manager’s for sale sign serves as a signal to our current council members
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
The city’s final public workshop about Riverside housing is tonight
State law has Riverside on the hook to submit a plan this October that will increase the housing units inside city limits by approximately 26 percent over the next nine years. Tonight it your last chance to participate in the discussion about the formation of these plans. The development of more tha
The future of Ab Brown Sports Complex is uncertain
The future of the Ab Brown Sports Complex in Riverside’s Northside neighborhood has some soccer organizations concerned about whether it will continue to be used for youth leagues or developed into something else. Thousands of children have utilized the complex for decades and leaders of youth sport
UCR students’ recycling company reaches finals in startup competition, need your votes
A recycling solutions company, founded by University of California Riverside students, is one of eight finalists in the Blackstone LaunchPad Pitch Competition– a global competition for startups that offers prizes to three finalists totaling more than $50,000. Until 8:59 this evening, Saru Recycling
A proposed ballot measure reaffirming transfer of millions in funds
In November’s election, Riversiders may be asked to reauthorize a decades-old practice of transferring millions in utility payments to the city’s general fund. The city has been able to transfer money from electric utility to a general fund since Riverside first established a city charter in 1907. V
What the RG is listening to this month
The Riverside Philharmonic Orchestra is honoring Black History Month by performing works from composers of African descent. They are posting weekly videos either highlighting history of classical composers or performing themselves. Their first recorded performance is a quintet playing the music of G