Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: 1. PolitiFact Reporter Chris Nichols looks into how safe in-person learning is considering that California’s new stay-at-home order allows for schools that had already opened their campuses to stay open. 2. Fire ripped through the roof of a 10,000 square-foot commercial building in the unincorporated Highgrove area near Riverside early this morning, but is now contained. 3. Replacing

An organic community garden in San Bernardino aims to improve nutrition among the underserved and combat the city’s status as a food desert. The “Jardín de la Salud,” Spanish for “Garden of Health,” is an initiative of Loma Linda University’s Community-Academic Partners in Service, or CAPS, which is part of the university’s Institute for Community Partnerships. The one-acre organic garden serves undernourished communities in San Bernardino, and is run in collaboration with the nonprofit Huerta

San Bernardino Assemblymember Eloise Gomez Reyes was officially sworn in as the Democratic Majority Leader December 7 and is the first Latina to hold the position. KVCR’s Megan Jamerson spoke with Reyes about her priorities for the new legistlative session that begins in January and about the latest state stay-at-home orders.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: 1. Some cities and counties are trying to forge their own path under a new stay-at-home order. 2. LA County deputies arrested nearly 160 people who attended an illegal house party in Palmdale. 3. Bank of America says California has likely paid at least $2 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits. 4. COVID-19 ICU cases in California have jumped nearly 70% in the last two weeks. 5.

Both Riverside and San Bernardino Counties continue to report record highs for COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations at their Board of Supervisors meetings December 8. This comes as all Southern California counties adjust to stay at home orders that will last through Dec 28. Riverside County Director of Public Health, Dr. Kim Saruwatari, told her Board of Supervisors that the intent of the new order is to keep people at home unless it is absolutely necessary for them to go out. “If you do go out,

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: 1. Hundreds of California nursing homes are struggling with COVID-19 outbreaks and risk will be higher with the ongoing surge. 2. Health officials are encouraging people to stay home, with advice on how to get outdoors during the lockdown. 3. Governor Newsom says more healthcare workers are on the way as hospitals are strained under a COVID surge. 4. Santa Ana winds are forcing

The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians is continuing their long-running partnership with the Yurok Tribe to start selling the Northern California tribe’s Mad River Brewing Company ale at San Manuel Casino. As KVCR’s Benjamin Purper reports, it’s part of a tradition of intertribal commerce in California. Jacob Coin is the Executive to the Chair of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. He says while intertribal relationships in California have existed since before the arrival of the Europeans,

As the winter holidays approach, officials at Joshua Tree National Park are asking the community to take steps to prepare for crowds during this traditionally busy season. Park Superintendent David Smith says public interest in the park has gone way up in the past four years. Like national parks across America, they too have seen a pandemic trend of more local visitors looking for safe outdoor activities. “But during the holiday period, like Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year’s, there is

Santa Ana wind conditions and dry vegetation continue to fuel two fires in Riverside County Thursday. The Airport Fire in Corona is 500 acres and zero percent contained. Nearly 200 crew members from Riverside and San Bernardino Counties are working to contain the fire that started late Wednesday evening. As of Thursday morning, the blaze forced the closure of highway 71 in both directions. All Airport Fire evacuation warnings have been lifted, but officials are warning residents conditions could

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: 1. San Bernardino County unveils memorial plans for victims of the Dec 2, 2015 terrorist attack. 2. The US Forest Service is encouraging Californians to cut down their Christmas trees in national forests to help mitigate wildfire danger. 3. State Senator and pediatrician Richard Pan says he is cautiously optimistic about a coronavirus vaccine arriving soon in California.