Banning News

Banning Cultural Alliance is dedicating a memorial plaque in honor of the 46 military men from Banning who died in wars dating back to World War I. Banning Cultural Alliance will dedicate a memorial in the Banning Woman's Club garden on Monday, May 27.

The Cherry Fire started at 1:47 p.m. near Sunset Avenue and Mesa Street, on the Banning Bench - the same area where the Summit Fire burned in early May.

Madera is a long ways from Riverside County, but Riverside County supervisors nevertheless have gone on record opposing the Brown administration's deal with the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians that would allow the tribe to build a casino off Highway 99 in Madera.

After you have recovered from Breezin' through Beaumont 5K this morning, and watched Banning High's solar boat team in Yucaipa, head over this evening Richard Hanks, author of "This War is for a Whole Life: The Culture of Resistance among Southern California Indians, 1850-1966." CONTRIBUTED IMAGE to the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center, 127 N. San ... (more)

Richard Hanks, author of This War is for a Whole Life: The Culture of Resistance among Southern California Indians, 1850-1966." A lecture on the fight for Indian sovereignty in Southern California will feature speaker Richard A. Hanks at 7 p.m. Saturday May 18, at Dorothy Ramon Learning Center Gathering Hall in Banning.

Strong winds are expected to blow through the Coachella Valley and Riverside County mountains this afternoon through early Saturday, especially through and below the Banning Pass and along and north of Interstate 10.

Bill Hobbs, on left, Jeanne Ruth, Peggy Wheeler and Don Stoner at the first of the Saturday training rides May 4, for the Wild West Bike Ride scheduled June 1 at Gilman Ranch.

The council on Tuesday, May 14, approved a series of resolutions related to compensation and benefits for employees not covered by agreements previously approved with five other bargaining groups.

Call it a soft opening. Without public fanfare, San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital opened its Emergency Department/Intensive Care Unit building at 6 a.m. Tuesday, May 14.

Phineas Banning, the namesake of the city of Banning, will be recognized at the Pass Chorale's performance Sunday, May 19.

A wildfire broke out Monday evening in the Cherry Valley area, quickly charring an estimated two acres, the Riverside County Fire Department tells Banning-Beaumont Patch.

The Banning City Council will consider the last in a series of resolutions expected to save the city money overall by upping the retirement age and reducing pension benefits for new hires.

Banning and Beaumont residents can expect to need the A/C through at least Tuesday, as high temperatures are forecast in the area- with Beaumont expected to get up to 99 degrees Monday.

One person suffered major injuries in a three-car collision on the 10 Freeway in Banning, a Riverside County Fire Department spokeswoman said today.

This week an informal myMotherLode.com poll question was related to a ruling by the California Supreme court which upheld the city of Riverside's right to ban "Pot Shops". The myMotherLode.com poll question was: Should City Officials Be Able to Ban Pot Shops? Two-thirds or 66% said Yes, thirty-two percent said No to banning them.

A Banning resident was arrested after a carjacking and chase in San Jacinto on Friday night, May 10, according to the San Jacinto Police Department.

Two men and a woman suspected in connection with an alleged drug-dealing operation at a San Jacinto home were all behind bars in Banning on Friday, officials said.

Robert Guillen, right, at a Banning school board meeting last September. On a split vote, the board decided Thursday, May 9, to promote Guillen, the district's chief administrative officer, to the superintendent post as of June 1. The promotion came on a 3-2 vote on Thursday, May 9. Contract details will be decided at a June 6 board meeting.

Update 2:33 p.m. More details were released Friday of a carjacking attempt and fatal shooting in Yucca Valley, the ensuing Interstate 10 pursuit through Banning and Redlands, and the final gun battle in San Bernardino that left one suspect dead, a CHP officer and a second suspect wounded.

A man suspected of seeking out and stabbing three people in Hemet has been arrested and booked into the Banning jail, police said Friday.