Volunteers woke up early on Wednesday, January 29 th to conduct a survey of all the homeless people living in Riverside County. About 60 volunteers showed up to the La Sierra University Church at 5:30a.m. to sign in for the homeless Point-in-Time Count. Over 1,000 people registered for the count in all of Riverside County. The count is a snapshot of homelessness in Riverside County that’s used to determine how much federal money is distributed to fight homelessness in this area. Volunteers use

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: 1) Riverside has a new police chief. 2) Over in San Bernardino County, there’s another court decision in the long-running dispute over an appointed county supervisor. 3) The Inland Empire was the landing spot Wednesday morning for dozens of people returning from China and possibly exposed to the coronavirus. THIS SEGMENT

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Today’s highlighted story: Empire KVCR's Uncovered in the Archives is a show that gives voice to the Inland Empire. Host and Co-Executive Producer Brad Pomerance talks about a recent episode which earned recognition at the 12th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.

Environmental organizations and a local Teamsters union are suing the Federal Aviation Administration and the San Bernardino International Airport. The lawsuit announced Wednesday is over the Eastgate Air Cargo Logistics Center, the air cargo hub slated to open at the San Bernardino International Airport. Environmental nonprofit Earthjustice is representing the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice and the Sierra Club, and the Law Office of Gideon Kracov is representing the

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Today’s highlighted story: Authors of the new book “Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption” talk about what it means to be resilient in the face of climate change.

Several hundred detainees are reportedly on hunger strike at a Southern California detention center run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Hunger strikers at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center northeast of Los Angeles are protesting a lockdown that keeps immigrant detainees in their cells for at least 23 hours a day. Lizbeth Abeln is the Immigrant Detention Coordinator for Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice. Abeln: “The entire west wing is on hunger strike so it's about 600 men. They

You may hear the word “sustainability” used a lot when talking about climate change, but what about “resilience?” KVCR’s Benjamin Purper spoke with the authors of the new book “Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption” about what it means to be resilient in the face of climate change. Authors Alice Hill and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz both served as senior officials in the Obama Administration working on climate change issues. Their new book discusses climate

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Today’s highlighted story: KVCR spoke with Dr. Brandon Grove about the pneumonia-like Wuhan coronavirus which has been detected in Southern California.

The pneumonia-like Wuhan coronavirus has now been detected in Southern California. KVCR spoke to Dr. Brandon Grove, a family medicine physician with Monarch Healthcare in Anaheim Hills, about the virus and what you need to know.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: 1) California's monarch butterfly count remains critically low for the second year. 2) New cases of Wuhan coronavirus in Arizona and California bring the U.S. tally of the pneumonia-like disease to 5. 3) California's unemployment rate held steady at the record low of 3.9% in December.