Steven Cuevas

Promoters expect about 20,000 music fans to converge at Los Angeles’ State Historic Park Saturday for the 8th annual “FYF” indie rock festival. They promise a cleaner, better-organized show than in years past.

Authorities in San Bernardino County have launched a nationwide manhunt for a Cal State San Bernardino professor suspected of leading a motorcycle gang that dealt drugs across the Inland region.

Eight months after an unknown assailant gunned down two Redlands teenagers, police have still made no arrests. Authorities are renewing their call for help in finding the shooter. Police have released a new sketch and description of the man who shot the teenagers outside a north Redlands apartment building last January.

"The King of the Surf Guitar" Dick Dale celebrates 50 years in rock and roll Thursday with a performance at Fullerton’s Plummer Auditorium. Proceeds from the concert benefit Fullerton College. The show won’t be far from where Dale pioneered his signature guitar rumble.

Riverside County planning commissioners will consider postponing a decision Wednesday on whether to approve a contested quarry project near Temecula. Liberty Quarry would cut into the foothills a few miles south of the city. But the company behind the project is asking for a delay.

The San Jacinto Mountains comes alive with music this weekend. It’s the 18th annual “Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines” festival.

Vector control officials say three mosquitoes trapped in the Coachella Valley have tested positive for the West Nile virus, but human cases are down across the Inland area, and statewide.

A California state Senate resources committee is considering a measure from Long Beach Democratic Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal that could block a contested Temecula granite mine. The proposed Liberty Quarry would carve into the foothills a few miles south of the city.

Hot air balloonists will soon float over the Coachella Valley for the first time in more than two years. They were grounded after the owners of an olive ranch sued them for allegedly flying too close to their property. The olive farm dropped its lawsuit earlier this week, but the balloonists are saying not so fast.

A legal battle between hot air balloonists and a Coachella Valley olive farm could move to a federal court in Riverside. A judge will decide Wednesday whether attorneys for the farm can add the federal government to its lawsuit. The balloonists say it’s just a ploy by the olive farm to delay a trial it can’t win.

More homeless people live in San Bernardino County now than two years ago. A new survey indicates a 66 percent increase during that time.

Five years ago, a team of photographers created the world’s largest photograph by converting an Orange County jet hanger into a giant camera. The 30-by-111 foot image — called “The Great Picture” — is now on public view for only the second time in the U.S. Displaying the giant snapshot can be a monumental challenge. Making it was a lot harder.