2+ week, 1+ day ago  (382+ words) In the past, I've tried to decipher and share details of some of the many street names in Riverside and how they came to be. Here are a few others with unique history in our area. In 1907, Tetley began to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (674+ words) Southwest Riverside County with its mass of subdivisions and strip malls is hardly a filmmaker's ideal. Yet that blandness is exactly what local filmmaker Shane Aquino was looking for as he's made what he believes to be the first movie…...

1+ mon, 12+ hour ago  (561+ words) Three Riverside patrol officers who had disabled military veteran license plates on their personal vehicles were fired Tuesday, April 28, Police Chief Larry Gonzalez said Wednesday. The officers, Timothy Popplewell, Raymond Olivares and Richard Cranford, were given notices of intent to…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (338+ words) It's TIIIMMMMMEEEE." " Mariah Carey Thanksgiving has come to a close and the winter holidays are in full swing at the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in downtown Riverside. The 33rd year of the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa Festival of Lights kicked off…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (749+ words) An Inland Empire state senator wants to keep cops away from ballot boxes. To that end, Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, D-Riverside, on Tuesday, April 28, announced new legislation to prevent a repeat of Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco's controversial investigation that seized…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (838+ words) An Inland Empire state senator wants California to do what Riverside County won't " split the county Sheriff's Department from the coroner's office to avoid what critics call a glaring conflict of interest. Sen. Sabrina Cervantes' bill to do that made…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (787+ words) After 13 festival fundraisers, the Spanish Town Heritage Foundation is ready to see a piece of family history " and the region's Latino heritage " preserved for generations to come. The family-run nonprofit group in Riverside has long been behind the scenes of…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1433+ words) As a small girl in Highland, Baily Wilkins attended San Bernardino schools. She watched her mom teach special education students there. So it made sense when Wilkins later returned to her school district as a substitute teacher at Emmerton Elementary…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (249+ words) Garden Party" is the theme of the Riverside Community Flower Show Association's 78th annual Riverside Community Flower Show and Garden Tour, to be held April 25 and 26. The flower show, at the Riverside Elks Lodge, 6166 Brockton Ave. , is open 9 a. m. -5 p. m. both days, and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1163+ words) It was the mid-1990s, and Central Perk on "Friends" was America's best-known coffee shop. Little wonder that in Riverside, two entrepreneurs were thinking of calling their University Avenue coffee shop University Perk. Then their landlord suggested a better pun. Thus was…...