Beaumont News

While on a family vacation to Hawaii, Jerry Norquest of Redlands and his sons-in-law Dennis Wolbert of Running Springs and Travis Kimball of Beaumont spent a day diving with sharks.

George Kraus laments the loss of his beloved and battered old pickup that proudly displayed the licensed plate RSTY 71.

With the economy still mired in recession and corporate profits mostly driven from reducing expenses, the Inland Southern California industrial market continued to struggle in the third quarter.

A Yucaipa man killed in an off-road vehicle crash in Beaumont Saturday has been identified by coroner's officials as 54-year-old Michael Bruce Young.

A 54-year-old Yucaipa man was killed when his dune buggy collided with a car that turned in front of him and he was thrown through the windshield, the coroner said Sunday.

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.

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.

A freeway wreck killed one Beaumont man, critically injured another and caused a 2-1 2-hour SigAlert this morning along Interstate 10 in Cabazon, according to California Highway Patrol officers and Riverside County Fire Department officials.

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

Family members of firefighters killed in the 2006 Esperanza blaze will gather in Cabazon today on the arson-set wildfire's third anniversary.

Three years have passed since the Esperanza Fire raged through Riverside County, killing five U.S. Forest Service firefighters, but the federal government still has not finished its investigation into the blaze.

It has been nearly three years since Jason McKay and four others lost their lives in the fast-moving Esperanza Fire in the San Jacinto Mountains.

The Riverside County public defender's office will not be required to assist a murder defendant representing himself, but his defense may still be paid through county tax dollars, a judge said Thursday.

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.

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

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

New homes in the master planned community of Sundance include KB Home's Trillium, where homeshoppers can design the home of their dreams with KB Home's exclusive Built to Order process.

A fugitive parolee initially escaped arrest Tuesday but was found hours later by Banning police.

At least one person was injured today in a rollover crash on westbound Interstate 10 in Beaumont, according to the California Highway Patrol.