Corona News

As landfills around the country have closed and the desire to develop has remained, one man's trash dump has become another man's golf course, ball field or ski slope.

Western Municipal Water District's participation in a program that this week will finish delivering 1,500 water-saving toilets at no cost to Riverside County homes, hotels and commercial buildings is in limbo because of doubt about whether Western will receive promised rebates.

Corona teacher Bill Cross needed a kidney and liver because of heart failure when he died about two weeks ago at age 46.

Bob and Meta Soko, who turned an airport restaurant into a landmark of Corona, are turning over management of their 35-year-old eatery at the Corona Municipal Airport to an Orange County real estate man.

Three men who punched and robbed a person in an Eastvale business parking lot Monday were caught in Corona when they tried to sell the stolen merchandise to another store.

A jury of three men and 10 women has been chosen to hear Alabamaa s lawsuit against prescription drug manufacturer Watson Pharmaceuticals of Corona, Calif.

Joe Bird, of Riverside, paced in front of a blank wall at the UC-Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery on Monday afternoon, stopping every so often to strike and hold a pose with crossed arms, like a hip-hop star from 1988.

Ingen Technologies, Inc. a leading Medical Device Manufacturer focused in the $8 Billion global Respiratory Markets for the growing ageing population and emerging markets for Home , Hospital and Aviation Industries announced today that the company increased the first shipment of Oxyview-Nasal Cannula orders from 10,000 to 62,000 units, and ...

Inland fire departments whose funding has been siphoned amid the economic downturn are finding other revenue sources.

Corona officials are embroiled in a turf war. With water supplies under tight control and the threat of drought looming, the enemy -- lush, green and requiring countless gallons of water to sustain -- is grass.

Corona residents and businesses could see water rates rise several times in the next five years to cover increased costs for maintenance, purchased water and inflation.

Autopsies are scheduled Friday for the pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed near Lake Elsinore, and his female passenger.

The Riverside Land Conservancy this week awarded Ali Sahabi with its Beverly Maloof Environmental Excellence Award, an honor bestowed upon the Southern California developer for his work promoting sustainable development and the advancement of green technology.

Eighteen months after five people died in the collision of two planes over Corona, the city has put up 50 new signs at the airport, held safety seminars and is working on implementing other recommendations made by a task force created after the tragedy.

A driver on Highway 91 in Corona probably had no idea that hot metal fragments were shooting from the vehicle's exhaust pipe last November, igniting a fire that burned 30,000 acres and damaged or destroyed more than 350 homes, fire investigators have ruled.

In addition to $52 million in lost state funding for Corona-Norco Unified School District for 2009-10, the district will have to decide how to cut another $20.2 million for 2010-11, the school board learned Tuesday evening.

A 30,000-acre fire in November that spread across four counties and damaged or destroyed more than 350 homes and other structures was most likely triggered by a vehicle's exhaust, a Riverside County fire captain said today.

The California Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Monday for a former Corona man who killed two men and wounded another in a 1991 knife attack in a Riverside parking lot during a night of cruising.

At roughly 39 square miles today, Corona has swelled to a size that hardly would have been conceivable in 1896, when a small farm community became a city.

A woman resisted an attack by a suspected sexual predator then chased him as she called police in Corona on Friday morning, police said.