Last week, Peter Aldana, Riverside County’s assessor-county clerk-recorder, announced that the county’s total real estate assessment valuation has exceeded $400 billion for the first time. The 2023 assessment of $404 billion is $35 billion more than the 2022 total. Real estate assessments’ growth on the Hill was greater but below the countywide increase of 9.6%….

The Sept. 18 meeting of the Fern Valley Water District Board ofDirectors was longer than the agenda implied. Director Mike LaFataraised several questions during the discussion of the July and AugustDistrict checks and payments. His principal concern related to the service contracts which GeneralManager Victor Jimenez purchased for the recently acquired new vehiclesand one of…

In April, the Riverside County Grand Jury delivered a report critical of the county’s Registrar of Voters Office’s preparation and conduct of the November 2015 election. The grand jury visited seven different polling places in the county. In its response, which the Board of Supervisors approved in late July, the registrar agreed to change some…

By JP Crumrine Correspondent             On Wednesday, May 18, the Riverside County Planning Commission will again discuss major changes to Ordinance 927, “Regulating Short Term Rentals” (STRs).              The commission reviewed changes to the ordinance at its April 20 meeting, and asked its staff to make changes and bring the new revision to the commission for the…