Norco News

Corona-Norco Unified School District will buy 10 acres for the next elementary school in Eastvale for $2.6 million, not the $8 million it had planned to spend less than two years ago for the same property, Assistant Superintendent Ted Rozzi said Tuesday night.

Hyperbaric chambers, treadmills and physical therapy are no longer for humans only.

It's been a long road for Cowboy Bob, a 650-pound burger boy. The world's only Westernized Big Boy statue, unveiled Tuesday at the Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Norco, was two years in the making.

Woodcrest M.A.C. will be held at 7 p.m. at the Woodcrest County Library, 16625 Krameria Ave.

The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will soon slash drug rehab programs for state inmates as part of $1.2 billion in budget cuts - though some fear the severe program reduction may be more trouble than its benefit.

When Dennis Brandt started as a music teacher in Corona in 1969, he was not only connecting to his future of 40 years in education, but he was also finding a link to his family's past.

It's not just dealers who lose when Riverside County residents cross the county line in search of a new car.

The election of two new members to the Norco City Council won't necessarily change the city's direction or its major plans, but may alter the way they are carried out.

Sheriff's deputies today sought a man believed responsible for thefts at Target stores in southwest Riverside County and San Bernardino County since Sept.

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.

Two challengers swept two seats open on the Norco City Council away from two incumbents, according mostly complete results from the Riverside County registrar.

Norco voters agreed to increase the city's hotel tax . Election results for the Riverside County city showed voters boosting the tax from 8 to 11 percent.

Voters on Tuesday in western Riverside County will choose a mayor for Riverside, two Norco City Council members, two seats on the Riverside Unified School District and three seats in the Alvord Unified School District.

Tuesday is Election Day, when voters will head to the polls to decide a variety of local races and ballot measures.

Lately, that call has made its way off the farm and into the backyard as more and more suburban -- and even urban -- dwellers in the Inland area and across the country have taken up chicken keeping.

While students tie red ribbons to "say no to drugs," health educators urge parents to lock up prescription medicines.

In two years, college classes could be established at La Sierra High School and career technical education academies could be launched at each high school in Alvord Unified School District, officials say.

Los Angeles Crenshaw has had one of the toughest out of conference schedules, if not the toughest, in the Los Angeles City Section and they came out of it unscathed.

Rep. Ken Calvert posted a strong fundraising total for the second straight quarter and Rep.

New campaign finance reports are out this morning, providing a fresh look at how the Inland region's 2010 congressional races are shaping up.