Redlands Unified holds budget and LCAP hearings June 9
Community Forward Redlands: Trustees open the 2026-27 budget for public comment, plus a $906K YMCA afterschool deal and a Beattie Middle School safety upgrade.
Dicus wins outright, Binks and Vara head to runoff in San Bernardino County races
Community Forward Redlands: One countywide incumbent cruised, one lost outright: Sheriff Dicus took 65.6% while Auditor-Controller Ensen Mason fell to challenger Ryan Hutchison.
Chino Hills weighs a one-cent sales tax for the November ballot
Champion Newspapers: The city projects a $4.3 million General Fund deficit for 2026-27, covered by reserves. Council takes up the tax question Tuesday, June 9.
All three Riverside council races head toward November runoffs
The Riverside Record: No candidate in Wards 2, 4 or 6 cleared 50% in early returns; an estimated 270,000 county ballots remain uncounted.
Riverside County supervisors file De Luz election canvass over citizen group's objections
Riverside Record: The group's own audit reconciled after a missing ballot log surfaced; county counsel said the board had no discretion to delay or order a recount.
The IE's job engine has flipped from warehouses to hospitals
Citrus Belt Review: Warehousing employment is down 92,000 nationally from its early-2025 peak, and the IE's own data shows the same trade — logistics shedding, healthcare hiring.
CIELO Fund puts $310,000 into 22 IE nonprofits
Inland Empire Community Foundation: 2026 round pushes the Latino-focused fund past $1.7 million in total investment since its 2022 launch.
Premier, Penwood buy two Rialto Amazon warehouses for $270M
DO Capital breaks ground on 250-acre District at Jurupa Valley
Tenice Johnson joins Friends of the ARC board
Champion Newspapers: Montclair Chamber executive director; replaces Misty Fram on the shelter nonprofit's board.
Dave Gutierrez takes over as Menifee police chief
City of Menifee: Acting chief since February; with the department since 2019.
Mark Muenzer takes over Cathedral City's development department
City of Cathedral City: Fills the seat Firestine left when he became city manager.
UCR takes its MBA fully online this fall
UC Riverside: The only fully online MBA in the UC system based in Southern California, built for working professionals who can't get to campus.
State budget could cut the IE's biggest food bank to a tenth of its CalFood supply
Citrus Belt Review: The May budget revision would cut CalFood roughly 90% — dropping Feeding America Riverside | San Bernardino from $2.3M to about $262,000 a year, just as demand climbs.
ONT cargo climbs while IE warehouse jobs keep bleeding
Citrus Belt Review: Air freight through ONT is up double digits most months this year — even as the region's warehouses shed thousands of jobs. One slice of IE logistics is booming while the other contracts.
Why the data-center fight hasn't reached the Inland Empire
Citrus Belt Review: The IE core has no hyperscale proposals and no bans — because the binding constraint is power, and so far it's kept the fight 75 miles east. The tell: a Riverside company drove past its own home market to build six data centers in Coachella.
IE industrial vacancy climbs to 8.5%, more than double the 10-year norm
Cushman & Wakefield: Vacancy rose another 50 basis points in the first quarter — the warehouse glut that defined 2025 hasn't cleared yet.
George Borba Jr. takes over as CVB Financial board chairman
CVB Financial: Vice chairman since 2012 steps up; Oswalt slides to vice chair after the Heritage merger crossed $20B.
Why buying a used truck is a harder bet in the IE than almost anywhere else
Citrus Belt Review: A used Class 8 truck used to be freight's cheap way in. For an IE owner-operator right now it's a high-stakes bet — caught between a federal emissions deadline that may move, California rules stuck in court, and a price jump everyone expected that still hasn't hit.
The IE apartment market spent four years going from "no marketing needed" to a fight for every lease
Citrus Belt Review: Apple Maps just opened up to ads, and apartment-marketing trade press is treating it as the next channel. The more telling local story: the IE has quietly flipped from a market where units leased themselves to one where Class A communities compete hard for renters — and a new ad channel is a symptom of that, not the cause.