OC firefighter recovering in rehab after suffering brain injury in rollover crash
After a rollover crash left eight Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) firefighter severely injured in 2024, the grueling journey of healing and recovery continues. Matthew Nichols, one of the injured firefighters, is learning to speak again at a rehabilitation facility after suffering a train trauma in the crash....
13 transients were arrested after a police sweep in Anaheim
Earlier today, police officers, working alongside the Anaheim HALO team, conducted directed enforcement and engagement focused on ongoing quality-of-life concerns in our community, according to the Anaheim Police Department. During this effort, the police officers made contact with 21 unhoused individuals. Thirteen...
Video Observer: Disposing of Household Hazardous Waste at Anaheim Collection Center
After the holidays, there’s always an abundance of e-waste, whether that’s used or aging cell phones, old TVs and radios that people never thought to throw out, or old printers that no longer work, according to the workers at the household hazardous waste collection facility in Anaheim. If you’re unsure of where or...
Downtown Riverside Launches Valet Parking Service Friday
A valet parking service intended to make finding a space easier — but at a cost — during high-volume traffic nights in downtown Riverside will get underway Friday. The Downtown Valet Program is set to run between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. Friday and return on the same hours Saturday and Sunday, following which the service...
‘I’ve never seen a city that listens to what businesses need like Eastvale,’ marvels...
Jackie Krentzman is a Bay Area-based writer and editor. When Martha Moreno, a commercial real estate agent, was working out a deal to open a regional bagel shop in Eastvale, she came to the process with her usual set of concerns about drawn-out permitting. But to her surprise, Cassidy’s Corner Café was pouring coffee...
Riverside County CalFresh Recipients Can Request Replacement Benefits After Winter Storms
Riverside County residents who lost food purchased with CalFresh benefits during the recent winter storms can request replacement benefits through Jan. 22.The state extended the typical 10-day reporting window to 30 days after storms that began Dec. 23 brought heavy rain, flooding, power outages and road closures...
CAL FIRE firefighter dies while fighting Riverside County house fire
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) firefighter Daniel Cook died of an undisclosed medical emergency while fighting a house fire in Riverside County on Dec. 31, 2025, according to an official Facebook post by CAL FIRE and the Riverside County Fire Department. The Riverside County...
Dear Hospital uses storytelling to help address health care worker burnout
ORANGE, Calif. — State data shows nearly 60% of counties in California will face a nursing shortage. By 2033, the state is estimated to be short more than 61,000 nurses, partially due to retention. But a program called “Dear Hospital” at Rady Children’s Health Orange County is working to...
Ontario secures $30M state funding for housing, transit improvements along Holt Boulevard
National CORE and the City of Ontario have been awarded $30 million in state funding for affordable housing and transportation-related improvements along the Holt Boulevard corridor in downtown Ontario. The funding comes from California’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program, which supports projects...
SUV Crashes Off SoCal Overpass, Falls 100 Feet
An overnight crash in Southern California turned a stretch of freeway into a disaster scene […]

















