Refreshments were served at the November 18 opening of the Murillo Observatory on Badger Hill at California State University San Bernardino. The facility, which features two telescopes, was made possible in large measure through a $500,000 contribution by George and Pauline Murillo. A condition of the bequest was that the observatory be open to the … Read the Rest ->

HESPERIA—Victor Valley Transit Authority employees on Monday began moving into their new headquarters. The 28,820-square-foot administration and operations building was completed at a cost of $19 million, which is less than half the $42 million price projected for the facility in the engineer’s estimate in 2006. By relocating the project from Hesperia Road and Ottawa … Read the Rest ->

BARSTOW—Barstow police chief Dianne Burns remains away from her post at police department headquarters, four months after she took an extended vacation and more than three months after she was placed on administrative leave August 4. Burns was scheduled to return from a two-week vacation on July 18, but had not returned to her office … Read the Rest ->

The Federal Bureau of Land Management on November 17 issued a record of decision that approves the right-of-way for the Desert Express, a proposed high-speed rail line linking Las Vegas and Victorville. Much of the route for the high speed train parallels Interstate I-15, with one significant deviation in the Mountain Pass area, where the … Read the Rest ->

Senator Diane Feinstein has gone on record as being opposed to the Twentynine Palms Band of Mission Indians’ proposal to establish a casino in Joshua Tree. The Twentynine Palms Tribe’s members abandoned previous plans to develop what they hoped to call the Nüwü Casino on 160 acres of tribal land on their reservation south of … Read the Rest ->

Many residents of the Twin Peaks community expressed wariness over the proposed sports and worship complex to be built by the Church of the Woods along Highway 18 in Rimforest. Church of the Woods is proposing to clear forest land on the east side of Rim Forest west of Daley Canyon and to fill in … Read the Rest ->

VICTORVILLE—Victorville Superior Court Judge Steve Malone this week turned back California Attorney General Kamala Harris’s effort to prevent Dr. Prem Reddy and his for-profit corporation, Prime Healthcare Services, from moving into a position that will facilitate an eventual takeover of the non-profit and now bankrupt Victor Valley Community Hospital. For reasons that have not been … Read the Rest ->

The California Public Utilities Commission on November 10 approved Abengoa Solar’s power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric for the electricity to be produced at Abengoa’s Mojave Solar Project near Hinkley. The Mojave Solar Project is a 280 megawatt gross parabolic trough plant. Construction on the project has begun and the solar field, near … Read the Rest ->

ONTARIO – Ontario has elevated assistant fire chief/city fire marshall Floyd E. Clark to fire chief. Clark, 53, reached the department’s top spot after 25 years with the department. On November 15, the city council officially signed off on his replacing Dave Carrier as chief. Carrier, who has filled the department’s top slot since February … Read the Rest ->