Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: New Medi-Cal funding will bring back benefits including eyeglasses, speech therapy, and foot care. There will be a ceiling on the interest rates of some new consumer loans in California. Thousands of California homeowners lose insurance policies as insurers pull out of areas at risk of fire damage. A law meant to boost vaccination rates in California had the greatest effect in

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: A new state law next year ends the prosecution of children under 12 in California, unless they’re accused of murder or sexual assault. California based NASA scientists and researchers from around the world are launching a mission to measure sea level rise from space. Superior Court seeks residents to serve on the Riverside County Grand Jury. CHP’s 30-hour Christmas crackdown on

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Today’s highlighted story: College student organizers around the state are gearing up for California’s early primary in March. They’re hoping for a repeat of 2018, when student voter turnout more than doubled compared to the last midterm election. Experts say it could happen.

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: The San Bernardino city school district’s superintendent has announced he will be leaving. The chancellor of the San Bernardino Community College District has announced his retirement. And the troubled West Valley Water District is in the news again. THIS SEGMENT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP,

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Today’s highlighted story: A guest speaker at the Inland World Affairs Council speaks on U.S.-China Relations, commenting on the Trump Administration and Xi Jinping’s Communist Party.

Considering the trade war, protests in Hong Kong, and more, the relationship between the U.S. and China is filled with uncertainty. But a guest speaker at the Inland World Affairs Council last month says all that tension is the product of two unpredictable heads of government in the Trump Administration and Xi Jinping’s Communist Party. Dr. Julia Strauss is a professor of Chinese politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She visited Cal State San Bernardino on November 18

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: Bank of America announces it’s donating $750,000 to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture, and Industry. California may consider new ways to tax recreational cannabis. California’s congressional delegation is expected to split along party lines when the House votes on whether to impeach President Trump.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Today’s highlighted story: Fewer than 10% of California teachers are men of color, which isn’t keeping pace with the number of black and brown students in our classrooms.

Bank of America announced today that it is donating $750,000 to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry. At a press conference Tuesday, representatives from Bank of America announced the grant, which is the bank’s single largest award to an organization in the Inland Empire. The Cheech Marin Center, nicknamed “The Cheech,” will house comedian and actor Cheech Marin’s collection of Chicano art, considered the largest private collection focused on Chicano art. The center

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: Governor Gavin Newsom is locking in his spending plan to be released next month. Prayer service to be held for the Mt. Baldy search and rescue volunteer who fell to his death while searching for missing hiker. California likely to produce less new homes in 2019 versus last year. Climate change threatens California’s freeway system. Storms nudge most of California out of dry