Steven Cuevas

Members of Occupy Riverside are inviting city officials and the public to share a Thanksgiving potluck dinner Thursday evening. It’s at the Occupy encampment in the city’s downtown area that’s become a source of tension between authorities and activists.

Occupy demonstrators at the University of California, Riverside got a surprise visit Monday during a campus rally. University officials, including Chancellor Timothy White, stopped by.

California's labor commissioner has slapped a warehouse staffing agency from the Inland Empire with fines in excess of $600,000. State inspectors uncovered a host of labor violations, including denial of overtime pay at Premiere Warehousing Ventures. Workers hit the same company with a class action lawsuit last month.

Colton officials have acted to prevent Occupy Wall Street-style encampments from taking hold there. Its city council unanimously approved an ordinance that bans camping on public property, despite objections from some Occupy protesters.

Activists held a rally Friday outside Riverside police headquarters to protest excessive force officers allegedly used against Occupy demonstrators last weekend. Police arrested 11 people in that melee.

Thirty military veterans from Riverside County earned their high school diplomas this week, decades after they put aside their studies and went off to war. The annual Operation Recognition ceremony was held in Moreno Valley this week.

Riverside County supervisors approved a new fee on big solar farms Tuesday. Supporters say the annual fee will offset the effects of those projects on infrastructure and the environment, but solar developers say it will jeopardize projects already in the pipeline.

A Riverside County jury has found a Hemet man guilty of masterminding a string of violent attacks against police officers.

About two dozen protestors chanting anti-Wall Street slogans were back in place Monday morning after police broke up an anti-Wall Street encampment in Riverside on Sunday. Law enforcement arrested 11 members of Occupy Riverside after they refused to clear out of a downtown plaza near City Hall.

Solar energy farms may soon have to pay for the right to plant their reflective panels in the sands of Riverside County.