Desert Healthcare District board terminates CEO Chris Christensen
NBC Palm Springs: Closed-session vote Tuesday; termination without cause per contract terms.
Assembly votes 67-0 to require 100% U.S. grapes in "American" wine
Europe Tightens, the US Loosens, and the Inland Empire Stays a Hallway
The EU's new Industrial Accelerator Act is the next chapter in bloc-aligned manufacturing. The IE missed the last chapter, and current trends suggest it will miss this one too.
AI clerks tested in Riverside Superior Court motions
CalMatters: Riverside Superior Court signed a $10,000 deal in February with Learned Hand, whose tool drafts orders and research memos using Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models. CalMatters obtained emails suggesting eventual criminal-case applications.
Skechers ends Moreno Valley temp-staffing contract; 725 workers laid off
New federal suit alleges Riverside jail medical lapses, 11 years into consent decree
NBC Palm Springs: Another deliberate-indifference suit against a jail system that's been under federal court oversight since 2015 and met only a fraction of the decree's provisions a decade in.
Riverside seeks $14M federal grant for street safety, AI traffic cameras
Raincross Gazette: Bike-lane upgrades, high-visibility crosswalks, and AI cameras at high-collision intersections, with a possible drone first-responder pilot tacked on.
300-unit infill clears Riverside Planning Commission on a 45-year scrap yard
Raincross Gazette: Brownfield cleanup, the historic Barley Mills Building preserved, and an AB 2097 parking exemption that lets the project skip 86 spaces because it's near transit.
Redlands Community Hospital hiring across IT and clinical
Redlands Community Hospital: The independent Redlands hospital has 42 open roles, including hospital information systems and information system design positions.
FFF Enterprises hiring sales across Temecula HQ
FFF Enterprises: The Temecula specialty pharmaceutical distributor is posting sales roles at its 80,000-sf headquarters, with Account Manager listings at $75K-$125K.
Riverside picks up ~$150K in climate and clean-energy grants
City of Riverside: Three awards from Resilient Cities Catalyst, Bloomberg Philanthropies and ICLEI USA back the Northside Agriculture Innovation Center, youth climate work and clean-energy partnerships.
Riverside lands two CALED awards, launches business site
City of Riverside: Farm House Collective public-private partnership and Riverside Realized strategic plan picked up Awards of Merit; new RiversideBusiness.org goes live.
Redlands Unified to finalize 24 layoffs Tuesday
Community Forward Redlands: Resolution covers teachers, counselors, nurses and student support across multiple campuses; cuts take effect at the school year's close.
UC's 40,000 AFSCME workers ratify four-year deal with 21.5% wage increases
AFSCME Local 3299: Patient care and service workers across the UC system approve the contract 96.4%, with a $30.10 minimum wage by 2029 and expanded layoff protections.
SoCal ports cleared 6.49 million TEUs in 2026's first four months
Pacific Merchant Shipping Association: Combined San Pedro Bay container traffic ran 11–32% above pre-pandemic 2019 through April, even as analysts had forecast year-over-year declines.
Moreno Valley's 220-unit Villa Annette draws $46M bridge refi from Dwight
ConnectCRE: Dwight Mortgage Trust supplies a fresh bridge on the newly built lease-up property; proceeds retire construction debt and return equity to repeat sponsor Latco Enterprises.
Walmart, Clarion buy IE big-box warehouses as vacancy hits 8.5%
Cushman & Wakefield IE MarketBeat: Five big-box sales closed in Q1, each over 390,000 sf. Walmart paid $220 psf for a 507,000-sf Riverside box; Clarion bought a million-sf building from LACERA for $140M.
Drew Hartmann tapped as Riverside Community Hospital CFO
Becker's Hospital Review: From HCA Florida Memorial; succeeds Onel Rodriguez, now HCA Far West Division CFO.
Skechers ends TeamOne contract; staffing agency pulls 700+ workers from Moreno Valley facility
IE Business Daily: TeamOne told the state on May 18 that it will pull more than 700 workers from Skechers' Moreno Valley factory store and warehouse after the contract ended.