Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: Saturday marked the beginning of Spring, but the winter’s disappointing rainfall could mean the region is heading for a drought. Riverside and San Bernardino Counties could be in the less-restrictive orange tier of reopening soon if virus positivity rate keeps falling and more residents are vaccinated. Supervisors are set to approve a modified agreement with the state to fight citrus

Inland Empire groups joined in a downtown Los Angeles rally Monday in support of the Amazon worker unionization effort in Bessemer, Alabama. KVCR’s Megan Jamerson reports, since Amazon is the Inland region’s biggest employer, a successful union vote in the south could usher in changes in Riverside and San Bernardino County. Standing in a crowd of over 200 people, Martha Romero, a community organizer with the San Bernardino based Teamsters Local 1932 says she feels good about the turnout. Not

Saturday marked the beginning of spring, but it also brought an end to a winter of disappointing rainfall across most of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Since the start of the rainy season last November, precipitation was less than half of what is considered normal. The latest numbers could mean the region is headed for another drought, reports Inland News Today . Across inland valleys, about five inches was the average. For the desert it was less than one inch in the Coachella Valley and

During the immigration surge at the U.S-Mexico border in 2019, Riverside County partnered with local non-profits to help more than 2,800 asylum seekers reach their final destinations. KVCR’s Megan Jamerson reports, as arrivals surge once again, action is already underway to assist these families. The Galilee Center , located in Mecca in the Eastern Coachella Valley, is one of the non-profits that works with Riverside County. Helping asylum seekers is an intensive process says Claudia Castorena,

Longtime Inland Empire journalist and KVCR contributor Cassie MacDuff and KVCR's Benjamin Purper review some of the big Inland Empire news stories from the past week: Amazon has opened three medical clinics in the Inland Empire to care for its warehouse workers; Riverside Transit has announced it won’t raise bus fares this summe r; Upland is in the news again; And we remember a former Perris councilman, who died of Covid. THIS SEGMENT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP,

We’re now a year into the pandemic, and while many businesses haven’t survived the intermittent public health lockdowns, some entrepreneurs here in the Inland Empire see a bright future for their businesses as those lockdowns begin to lift. KVCR’s Benjamin Purper caught up with some of those entrepreneurs and has this report. Leo Castañeda owns ProTech Staffing Services, a recruiting and staffing company with offices in Riverside and Phoenix. The company mainly hires temporary personnel for

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: 1) Disneyland has set a reopening date. 2) A cache of fireworks exploded in Ontario Tuesday afternoon, and authorities have identified two missing people.

One year into the pandemic and the changes to how Americans work have not all been fair or equal. KVCR’s Megan Jamerson took a look at the Inland Empire’s biggest sector, logistics, and found the pandemic has raised the stakes for changing the future of warehouse jobs. Joey Alvarado of Hesperia, a 42-year-old husband with two kids, makes $29 an hour at a local Stater Bros. warehouse. “I was able to purchase a new home, purchase a new vehicle, and this is all during the pandemic," said Alvarado.

Today on Inland Edition, Lillian Vasquez speaks with Dr. Manfred Keil, Chief Economist for Inland Empire Economic Partnership, or IEEP. He's also the Associate Professor of Economics at the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Kiel shares information about local employment numbers and opening up the economy, now that there is finally some light at the end of the tunnel with COVID-19 vaccine distribution. For more information or to sign up for the IEEP 2021

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: