Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: A proposal in Legislature would create a task force to help solve cases of missing and murdered Native American women. A California law in effect this month provides added protections for millions of renters across the state. A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California shows Bernie Sanders leading the California Democratic primary race. The marina and surrounding

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: Consumer Watchdog says California should make the beverage industry take responsibility for recycling bottles and cans. Health advocates say Governor Gavin Newsom left out a few key solutions in his effort to combat homelessness. Jet fuel lands on schoolkids near Los Angeles. More than 15,000 marijuana plants were eradicated and six people were arrested during raids in Aguanga

Governor Gavin Newsom visited Riverside today as part of his weeklong tour addressing homelessness across California. The visit was to Riverside’s Access Center, where homeless people in Riverside can access a wide range of services including housing placement and employment opportunities. Newsom was joined by Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey, Assemblymember Jose Medina, and state Senator Richard Roth. Here’s Governor Newsom on homelessness in California. Newsom: “This is a crisis, this is

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Today’s highlighted story: The common perception of pit bulls is that they’re aggressive, but UCR professor Katja Guenther says that reputation may tell us more about ourselves than the dogs.

Pit bulls are generally thought to be aggressive animals, better suited to fighting than being good pets. But UCR professor Katja Guenther says that reputation may tell us more about ourselves than the dogs. Katja Guenther is a professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of California, Riverside. Much of her research explores human-animal relationships – most notably, the one between pit bulls and their owners in Southern California. Guenther says one reason so many pit bulls end

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: Habitat for Humanity has broken ground on a three-home building site in San Bernardino designed for low-income residents. Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to take bold action on the state’s homelessness crisis. Five million independent voters in California could play a decisive role in the state’s March 3 Democratic presidential primary.

Affordable housing continues to be an ongoing issue in the Inland Empire and the state of California as a whole. With that in mind, Habitat for Humanity has broken ground on a three-home building site in San Bernardino designed for low-income residents. On Wednesday, representatives from Habitat for Humanity, Bank of America, and the city of San Bernardino attended a groundbreaking event. The site for the new homes is near the Carousel Mall District, on 9 th and H Street. Al Arguello is the

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) We continue our preview of the March primary. This week we take a look at who’s running for state Assembly and Senate in the Inland counties. THIS SEGMENT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP, PUBLISHER OF THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE , SAN BERNARDINO SUN , INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN , AND OTHER SOUTHERN

San Bernardino County Supervisor Dawn Rowe may have to vacate her seat following an appellate court ruling yesterday. An appellate court has ruled against the county’s request that Rowe stay in her seat while it appeals an earlier superior court ruling that voided her appointment. In September of 2019, Superior Court Judge Janet M. Frangie ordered Rowe’s appointment to the Third District seat be rescinded because it violated the state’s open-meeting law, the Brown Act. Frangie’s ruling states

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: Experts meet to reduce wildlife collisions on California roads. Governor Gavin Newsom called for spending three-quarters of a billion dollars to get homeless people off the street in California. The poor performance of telecom companies during last year’s planned power outages was the focus of a state Senate committee hearing.