The IE built three life-sciences incubators. The cluster hasn't followed.
Citrus Belt Review: The corridor roughly doubled its wet-lab capacity this spring. The industry's own job data still doesn't list the Inland Empire as a cluster — and the gap between the infrastructure and the payroll is the story.
ViewSonic takes 171,913 SF at Ontario Ranch after 12 years in Chino
ConnectCRE: A 12-year Chino tenant moves to a never-occupied Class A building — the kind of flight-to-new-product absorption the IE West submarket has been counting on.
San Bernardino County adopts flat $10.9 billion budget, $273.7 million toward targeted priorities
San Bernardino County: Supervisors signed off on a budget that runs essentially flat year over year — down $26.1 million, or 0.24 percent — while carving out $273.7 million for priorities the board set during the process, roughly $250 million of it one-time money rather than baseline increases.
Inland Empire inflation hits 3.4% as gas prices drive the gain
Inland Empire Economic Intelligence: The headline number masks a split: transportation is doing all the work. Strip out gas and autos and the picture is stable to cooling — restaurant inflation is decelerating and shelter costs have leveled off after three rough years.
IE job postings drop below pre-pandemic levels for the first time since 2021
Citrus Belt Review: Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario postings are down 10% year over year — twice the national decline — and crossed below the February 2020 baseline on May 29.
Redlands Unified runs free summer meals at six sites
Community Forward Redlands: The district is serving summer meals at six locations across the city, anchored by a kickoff at the A.K. Smiley Public Library.
Jeff Girod takes over as UC Riverside's chief communications and marketing officer
Inside UCR: Girod moves up from CHASS, where he ran communications for eight years, into the university-wide role — an internal pick after a national search to lead a team that handles media relations, brand, digital, and crisis communications for the campus.
Riverside County opens two public seats on new Audit Committee
Riverside County: Applications run June 1 to July 1; the nine-member committee is the county's first standing body to seat residents alongside supervisors and the CEO for financial oversight.
Riverside Unified faces a $33.1M deficit heading into budget adoption
The Riverside Record: District plans to spend $846M against $29M less in revenue, with another $3.8M pulled from reserves for welfare settlements and a new office building — the projected last year of deficit spending.
Riverside County renews Ben Clark training deal through 2031
NBC Palm Springs: Five-year, $3.2M agreement keeps Moreno Valley College's law-enforcement and firefighting courses running at the county's public-safety academy near March Air Reserve Base.
Riverside considers $1.65M Motorola deal to replace police body cameras
Raincross Gazette: Five-year contract replaces the department's full body-worn camera fleet and upgrades storage — the prior contract expired in September 2025.
San Bernardino Is Building the Charging Network the Mandate Was Supposed to Require
Citrus Belt Review: CARB killed its clean-fleet rules last fall. Six months later, the I-215 corridor has a doubled depot, a 9-megawatt hub, and a $100 million truck order behind it. The demand outlived the mandate.
IE apartment rents turn up as new construction falls 27%
Citrus Belt Review: Rents turned positive in Q1 after two years of softening, and the 2026 delivery pipeline is 27% smaller. The IE ran the national overbuilding cycle in miniature — and the exit is now visible.
Casting lead times jump from 15 to 24 weeks as supplier delays spread
LMA Consulting Group: Claremont supply chain consultant Lisa Anderson says delivery times are at their longest since 2022 — and the Strait of Hormuz only explains part of it.
More IE sellers are pulling homes off the market — and relisting them
Summer's blouge trend hasn't reached Temecula — the grapes already have
Citrus Belt Review: France's red-white co-ferment is the chillable wine of summer 2026. No Temecula producer pours one yet — but the climate argument and the raw materials are already in the valley.
Ethics board weighs writing itself into Riverside's charter
The Raincross Gazette: One proposal would hand board appointments to the future inspector general — and make the board harder for a future council to dissolve.
A UCR housing scholar on why Riverside turned down $20M for homeless housing
Riverside County approves $10.3B budget with a hiring freeze
Riverside County: Supervisors adopted the FY2026-27 plan June 9, leaning on a discretionary-funded hiring freeze and reserve draws to close a structural deficit as costs outrun revenue.
Federal judge clears CBU to cut wrestling
Riverside Record: Preliminary injunction denied June 3; the wrestlers' attorney says reinstatement for 2026-27 is now highly unlikely, though an appeal is planned.