Banning News Archives

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.

Many women survive breast cancer, often at great cost. And when they do, what then? Terracina Surgical Arts hosted a fashion show Oct.

They arrived at the Capitol in the days of Brown and Reagan . Some of their colleagues are young enough to be their grandchildren.

A driver lost control of his vehicle today, causing it to go into a flood channel, and had to be cut out of his vehicle, RiversideCounty Fire Department officials said.

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday unanimously approved a new traffic light on a major thoroughfare alongside Banning High School in Wilmington.

What are the effects of Super Wal-Mart? As in so many areas of life these days, there are lots of rumors, innuendos, distortions, and outright lies that many of us are too quick to accept as "fact." We think that if we read it in the newspaper or hear it from a politician or on TV, it must be true.

"If you can't keep the house of God clean, you can't keep no house clean," says one of the principals in Patrick Shen's terrific documentary about janitors - yes, janitors.

A $30 million medical plaza with an outpatient surgical center and urgent care has opened in Beaumont.

A small earthquake shook the Banning Pass area of northern Riverside County early Friday.

Making sure every downtown building meets modern earthquake safety standards has been a priority for the city since the 1980s, but a lack of data and the recession are the latest reasons why a handful of dangerous buildings continue to stand.

For the second time, the Beaumont Planning Commission gave its approval Tuesday night for a businessman to operate a hookah lounge and billiard hall.

A new law that bans gender discrimination in health insurance prices will bring a welcome end to a lawsuit filed by San Francisco against the state, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera said Tuesday.

The city of Banning is asking voters to approve a doubling of the tax on hotel and motel guests at the polls Nov.

About 400 motorcyclists participated in a 91-mile ride last weekend that began in Riverside and traveled to Banning, Lake Perris, Diamond Valley Lake and Lake Skinner as it raised $13,000 for a foundation that funds memorials for fallen law enforcement officers and their families.

Two men arrested for a Cabazon-area burglary may also be suspects in a similar burglary in Desert Hot Springs, Riverside County Sheriff's officials said.

A Desert Hot Springs karate instructor was arrested today on sexual battery and child annoyance charges involving a former student.

Beaumont was booted from the regional development impact-fee program for noncompliance Monday by the executive committee of the agency that oversees the program in western Riverside County.

A fire that spread to about 20 acres in one hour just south of Banning was declared 100 percent contained Saturday afternoon, a Cal Fire spokeswoman said.

A brush fire quickly scorched 20 acres in an areaA south of Banning Saturday and fire officials saidA it has the potential toA grow toA several hundred acres.

A Banning mother of two is facing a maximum of three years in prison if she's convicted of trying to cash a fake check not once, but twice.