Banning News

Renovation on a California movie theater led to the discovery of a wallet lost during earlier work, probably in 1946 or 1947, the wallet owner's ex-wife said.

Snow is on its way to downtown Banning -- no matter what the weather forecasters say.

Joe Maiberger and two of his clients were honored at the Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards Wednesday night.

A proposed jail facility west of Palm Springs would not seriously burden the Coachella Valley's water supplies, according to a government agency's findings.

The H1N1 flu nasal vaccine is now available at some Walgreens Pharmacies in the Coachella Valley area.

The 2006 Republican primary for the Inland area's 65th Assembly District was one of several legislative campaigns that spring, seemingly just one more expensive intra-party brawl of candidates and special-interest spending.

More police officers on the streets in Desert Hot Springs translates into more arrests, including dozens of arrests of juveniles, over the past year.

A "PUBLIC salon" on the topic of the Inland Empire's economic bust is set for today in downtown L.A., which is the sort of place you might expect to host a public salon, but not the sort of place you'd expect a discussion of Rancho Cucamonga and Banning.

State Sen. John Benoit was tapped Wednesday to fill the Riverside County supervisor seat representing most of the Coachella Valley.

Facing an operating deficit upwards of $70 million and amid warnings that revenue continues to decline, Riverside County supervisors on Tuesday maintained they still must find a way to staff the new jail expansion in Banning.

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Voters in four Southern California counties on Tuesday chose among scores of candidates for local offices and weighed in on a range of tax measures and other proposals, while voters in a Northern California congressional district picked a Democratic political veteran to fill a vacancy.

Banning voters have approved the city's request to double a local tax on hotel and motel visitors.

Amid strong warnings that discretionary revenue continues to decline and more staffing reductions are on the horizon countywide, Riverside County supervisors today maintained they still must find a way to staff the new jail expansion in Banning.

The security guard at a Banning bar and another man were stabbed Sunday while trying to break up a fight, police said.

An Orange County man will be charged with 127 additional counts of posing as a 14-year-old girl and contacting underage girls to send him nude photos on MySpace.

Riverside County public health workers will start administering free swine flu vaccines to school children in Banning and Coachella this week.

Following a 24-year career with the Rancho Cucamonga Fire Department, Mike Bell has been promoted to fire chief, leading an organization of 125 employees.

A man killed in a drunken driving crash Thursday in Banning has been identified by coroner's officials as 26-year-old Dominic Becerra of Beaumont.

One man was killed and another arrested in a drunken driving crash this morning in Banning.