IE tomato prices hit an eight-year high as tariffs, freezes, and diesel stack up
The Citrus Belt Review: Romas and slicers run $1.50–$2.50 a pound across Inland Empire shelves right now — and wholesale buyers are getting hit harder than shoppers.
Desert Healthcare District gives $677K to five Coachella Valley nonprofits
NBC Palm Springs: Grants spread across homelessness, air quality, and healthcare scholarships in the desert.
Morongo gives $450K to 111 nonprofits
Morongo Band of Mission Indians: The tribe's outreach program has now moved more than $1.7M to 400-plus groups since 2022.
Orel Hershiser Chevrolet takes over M.K. Smith Chevrolet in Chino
Champion Newspapers: The Dodgers legend's dealership group buys a Chino fixture operating since 1941.
SDG&E floats a 144-mile transmission line through Temecula
NBC Los Angeles: The Golden Pacific Powerlink would run extra-high-voltage lines from Temecula through Anza-Borrego and into San Diego County — a route that puts a major utility build squarely in southwest Riverside County's path.
PCCP and Alliance Residential buy a Riverside complex for $65.3M
Connect CRE: A 2023-built, 184-unit garden-style community trades in a submarket the buyers are betting on for long-run demographic demand.
Redlands moves its Saturday market to 7 a.m. and looks for the exit
Redlands Community News: Council shifted the Downtown Morning Market to 7–11 a.m. and told staff to find a new site and a third-party operator — a move driven by parking complaints and a market that runs at a loss.
Riverside council candidates raised nearly $500K for three seats — and one race ran on $5,000
The Riverside Record: Ten candidates for three Ward seats pulled in almost half a million combined, but the spread runs from Gracie Torres' near-$100K to Jessica Qattawi's roughly $5K — a gap that tests whether money buys a council seat in a city with no contribution limits.
Walmart buys its Riverside cold-storage facility for $223M
The Real Deal: Walmart bought the building it had rented since 2010 — a bet on cold storage while the rest of the IE industrial market sits at 8.1% vacancy.
Mission Inn's missing artifacts hinge on a question nobody settled in 1992
The Raincross Gazette: Two paintings came off the wall May 20, and the fight over who owns them rests on a good-faith handshake from the Christmas Eve closing that the city never put in writing.
Redlands Unified cuts 24 more teaching staff, 43 this month
Community Forward Redlands: 17 of the 24 cuts are counselors; the district started the year planning to eliminate 91 positions before vacancies and attrition pared it down.
Riverside's VMT mitigation bank wins a SCAG sustainability award
The Raincross Gazette: SCAG recognized the city's first-in-county program that lets developers offset traffic impacts under CEQA at $98 per VMT reduced — the lowest known statewide rate — and routes the money to local transportation projects.
Calvary Murrieta Christian School closes Friday, ending 33-year run
A 1,400-acre housing tract hits the market near Lake Mathews
ConnectCRE: Entitled land at this scale rarely trades in SoCal — and this one already carries a tentative tract map, central to Corona, Riverside, and Menifee.
Geodis lays off 238 at Rialto warehouse as IE freight cuts mount
Chino Hills Chick-fil-A files WARN for 98 temporary layoffs
California WARN tracker: Franchise operator GladUDid lists the 3640 Grand Avenue location as a temporary closure effective July 11; classification suggests a remodel rather than a permanent shutdown.
Frito-Lay shuts its Rancho Cucamonga warehouse, ending a 56-year run
Montclair tells HCD it's now compliant after state housing violation notice
City of Montclair: The city was the only IE jurisdiction on the state's March 24 noncompliance list. An urgency ordinance adopted April 20 — three days before the state deadline — is the city's answer.
Coachella council faces 1,000-resident revolt against Stronghold data center
NBC Palm Springs: Meeting ran more than five hours. Security removed Stronghold executives at one point. Water and environmental concerns drove the opposition, and council members signaled they may slow the project down.
Redlands Police drone deploys on e-bike chase, mental health call, armed standoff
Community Forward Redlands: The "Drone as First Responder" program — also called "Mav-1" — launched earlier this year. The department logged three deployments in the week of May 13.