Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: California is establishing new organic waste disposal rules. Scientists have quantified the impact of education on reducing a single Californian’s carbon footprint. The U.S. Justice Department is suing California over its plan to abolish private prisons. PG&E wants to raise rates on customers to reimburse money it spent on wildfire mitigation and insurance.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: The California Legislature received 181 discrimination and harassment complaints in the last year, many more than expected. The U.S. Coast Guard brings haul of seized cocaine to San Diego. A former employee of the California Senate will receive $310,000 in a settlement of a lawsuit claiming that former state Senator Tony Mendoza retaliated against her for reporting sexual

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, including: After being sued over its refusal to make them public, Riverside County has released whistleblower complaints that were substantiated. The federal judge in the San Bernardino terrorism case has said he is likely to deny the defendant's request to withdraw his guilty plea. San Bernardino has dropped its appeal of court

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: Thousands of California childcare providers handed in union signatures Wednesday. 178 people who were in the Wuhan region of China have been evacuated to Travis Air Force Base. The U.S. conducts a test flight of unarmed Minuteman 3 missile. California firefighters return from battling Australia fires. The California State University and Cal State San Marcos agree to pay $240,000

Environmental groups calling themselves the “communities on the front lines of climate change” rallied on the steps of the state Capitol today to launch the “Regenerate California” campaign. The campaign, which seeks to strengthen clean energy and phase out the use of fossil fuels, comes after the California Public Utilities Commission announced a new rulemaking process to transition the state away from natural gas. Environmental advocates praised the rulemaking as timely, given the number of

Women can earn $1 million less than men by retirement age when combining the lifelong pay gap with common workforce interruptions. With that in mind, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management’s Orange County Inland Empire market executive Lanän Clark spoke to KVCR about women and the wealth gap. The average woman spends about 44 percent of her life out of the workforce. Clark: “And it could be for different reasons - caring for her children, her parents or sometimes even a spouse. And in that case, it is

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: Fifteen million ballots have been mailed to California voters in advance of the March 3 rd presidential primary, but not all counties are handling the election the same way. A state lawmaker would like California to take over PG&E a year after they filed for bankruptcy. Instead of scrambling for caucus votes in Iowa, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has been busy

Inland Empire Representative Pete Aguilar hosted a workshop today on how nonprofit organizations can help ensure a full count in this year’s census. The event held in San Bernardino hosted representatives from dozens of local organizations involved in the census. Dr. Karthick Ramakrishnan is a professor of public policy and political science at the University of California, Riverside and director of the Inland Empire Census Complete Count Committee. He says the Inland Empire is considered “hard

The Riverside County Office of Foreign Trade will present a series on export trade designed to give businesses in the area training on how to export internationally. The series, called the Export Trade Assistance Partnership, is a cooperation between the Riverside County Office of Foreign Trade and the Small Business Administration. Basically, it’s a training program designed to give businesses strategies and a network of contacts to succeed internationally. Veselina Farooq is with the Riverside

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: Riverside County Office of Foreign Trade will present a series on export trade. Volunteers conducted a survey of all the homeless people living in Riverside County. There’s discussion in California about whether four native bumble bee species should be listed under the California Endangered Species Act.