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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Northern California on Wednesday, marking the region’s strongest earthquake since 1940 and renewing attention to a recent study that found Southern California’s two largest fault systems are carrying the highest stress levels in at least 1,000 years. The U.S. Geological Survey placed t

COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) - Local Venezuelans are closely monitoring conditions in Venezuela after two powerful earthquakes struck the country on Wednesday, prompting concern for loved ones. The earthquakes were part of a series of notable seismic events reported that same day, including quakes in Japan and North

At approximately 2:12 p.m. on June 23, 2026, California Highway Patrol officers and Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies responded after a car hauler overturned near the eastbound State Route 60 on-ramp at Country Village Road in Jurupa Valley. Emergency crews arrived to find the transport trailer on its side after...

"As soon as I grabbed it, it fell over," Guillen recalled of one of the cats he pulled from the burning building. "You could tell it was in bad shape"

California officials said that FedEx would pay tens of thousands of dollars to resolve allegations that a driving job applicant was unlawfully rejected based on an old conviction. On June 3, 2026, the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) announced FedEx would pay $85,000 directly to a complainant to settle allegati

An Irvine man accused of beating a duckling to death with a recycling bin and seriously injuring another is now facing multiple felony animal cruelty charges, prosecutors announced Thursday. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office charged Randall Lee Bertsch, 71, with two felony counts of animal cruelty, three fel

A renewed push to form a downtown San Bernardino Property and Business Improvement District is moving toward City Hall, where one data point could shape the future of the effort: the city itself would be the proposed district’s largest payer and most influential vote. A downtown property ownership spreadsheet...

Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Councilmember Clarissa Cervantes abstained from the vote to approve a five-year $1.66 million contract with Motorola Solutions. The Riverside Police Department (RPD) is set to receive new body cameras equipped with several artificial intelligence (AI) features to

San Bernardino, CA Vote early. Stay alert. And don’t sit out November. That was the message Rep. Pete Aguilar and a coalition of Inland Empire civil rights and faith leaders carried into a packed room here Thursday, June 18, the day before Juneteenth, as they warned that the ballots of Black and brown Californians are

First 5 Riverside County and Riverside County Fifth District. Supervisor Yxstian Gutierrez will celebrate the completed construction of new infant and. toddler child care classrooms at the Jan Peterson Child Development Center during a. ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, June 15. The project was funded through a partne