Inland Empire Community News

This year, 25 campers participated in Augusta Communities’ 16th four-week summer day camp for children living in manufactured home communities in Montclair, Camp Blue Sky. For many of these children, Camp Blue Sky is their only opportunity to participate in structured summer programming because of the cost barriers associated with outside programs, according to Nancy Neill of Augusta Communities. Throughout its history, the camp has been free or low-cost to families.

Four City of Riverside public agencies coordinated an enforcement operation, leading to the arrest of 17 individuals at a Fairmount Park encampment near downtown Riverside Sept. 2. The 17 individuals were taken into custody by Riverside Police Department for various violations, including illegal camping, outstanding warrants, probation violations and trespassing, according to authorities.

Four City of Riverside public agencies coordinated an enforcement operation, leading to the arrest of 17 individuals at a Fairmount Park encampment near downtown Riverside Sept. 2. The 17 individuals were taken into custody by Riverside Police Department for various violations, including illegal camping, outstanding warrants, probation violations and trespassing, according to authorities.

By Lucas Curry, Associate Faculty member and Co-Chair of the Film and Journalism Departments at San Bernardino Valley College This might be one of the more entertaining films of summer 2026, and I’m afraid no one will see it in theaters. The film opens at a small-town drive-in restaurant, the kind that only seems to exist where time hasn’t moved, as a group of musicians forms and begins playing.

Fontana Courtplace, a new, two-phased affordable housing community, is underway in the City of Fontana with a $4 million federal investment secured by Congresswoman Norma Torres to transform a vacant lot into a developable property.

More than 300 union members, elected officials and supporters marched through downtown Riverside on Monday for the Inland Empire Labor Council’s inaugural Labor Day Parade and Unity Picnic, calling for living wages, stronger workplace protections and a greater worker voice as artificial intelligence reshapes the economy. The Sept. 7 parade began at Magnolia Avenue and Ramona Drive and ended at Main and 12th streets before participants gathered at White Park.

More than a decade after 14 people were killed in the Dec. 2, 2015, terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center, three San Bernardino County filmmakers set out to tell a story they believed had too often been framed around the attackers rather than the people whose lives were changed.

An executed settlement between Colton Joint Unified School District and the developer of the Bloomington Business Park shows CJUSD could receive up to $27 million while retaining ownership of Zimmerman Elementary School, but the agreement also requires the district to withdraw its opposition to the project and commits CJUSD not to file or support specified project-related litigation. CJUSD says Zimmerman, which sits adjacent to the development area, will remain open.

A yearslong push to establish a Property and Business Improvement District (PBID) in downtown San Bernardino returned to the City Council on Aug. 19, but council members stopped short of advancing the proposal and instead called for it to become part of a broader discussion about downtown revitalization. The PBID appeared as a receive-and-file item, meaning no decision was required.

Students and families gathered at Moreno Valley College’s Welcome Center Saturday for Super Saturday, where new and returning students received help with class registration, financial aid, academic counseling and campus resources ahead of the fall semester. The Aug. 22 event brought many of the practical pieces of starting college into one place. Students could meet directly with staff, tour the campus and connect with programs designed to support them throughout their academic journey.