Steven Cuevas

Riverside National Cemetery is enforcing a longstanding policy this holiday season for the first time — the military cemetery is prohibiting Christmas trees at gravesites.

A tanker full of olive oil overturned Wednesday afternoon, blocking lanes on the eastbound 91 Freeway near the 60 Freeway, as well as a connector ramp for the 60 Freeway to the Interstate 215 northbound, jamming traffic at the major freeway interchange.

The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has prosecuted more than three dozen cockfighting cases in the past year. Now it’s launched a multimedia campaign to curb the bloodsport – and show in stark detail the impact it has on animals and local communities.

Riverside County supervisors have endorsed a White House-sponsored jobs summit set for January. But before the endorsement, they engaged in partisan squabbling over the motivation for the event.

A group of artists has seized control of – dare we say “occupied”- an electronic billboard along Interstate 15 in Corona. They’re transformed it into a 24-hour art experiment.

Hours after police cleared the Occupy encampment in front of Los Angeles City Hall, authorities in Riverside moved in on a smaller encampment in Riverside. They cleared about 90 people from the downtown area and arrested three. The Occupiers are determined to return.

A group of Coachella Valley hot air balloon operators lost their legal fight to recover legal fees racked up battling a lawsuit over flight restrictions. A Valley olive ranch had tried to ban flights above its property.

Veteran La Quinta Councilman Stanley Sniff has died. He was 85 years old. Sniff spent 25 consecutive years on the City Council and was a founding father of La Quinta.

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.