Ice skating will be among the menu of options for entertainment during the famed “Festival of Lights” in downtown Riverside, according to officials, returning for visitors to enjoy for the first time in four years.
Cities throughout western Riverside County Monday will mark the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with flag ceremonies, patriotic reflections and other commemorative events.
California Highway Patrol officers will be ramping up operations on highways and roads throughout Riverside County starting Friday to catch drunken and drug-impaired drivers, as part of the agency’s annual Labor Day weekend enforcement campaign.
Riverside County was bracing Thursday for what is expected to be a significant surge of monsoonal and tropical moisture with widespread heavy rainfall thanks to Hurricane Hilary, which was gaining strength as it moves north off the coast of Baja California and could still pack a wallop when it reaches Southern California.
An excessive heat warning has been issued for parts of Riverside County with dangerously hot conditions and temperatures up to 114, the National Weather Service announced Tuesday.
Search and rescue personnel from Riverside County will be among others statewide deploying to the Hawaiian Islands as part of the disaster response to the wildfires that have devastated parts of Maui, officials announced Thursday.
One of the Inland Empire’s largest blood banks is scrambling to find donors amid a supply deficit that’s complicating efforts to treat cancer patients and others in need of transfusions, it was announced Thursday.
