Steven Cuevas

Later this year, several deliveries of low-radioactive nuclear waste will pass through the Inland Empire. The truck shipments will carry retired generator parts from the San Onofre Nuclear Station in San Diego County to a disposal site in Utah.

California is shifting supervision of thousands of state parolees to local jurisdictions. Riverside County is rolling out its plan to deal with the uptick of ex-cons.

Warehouse operations employ a lot of people in the Inland Empire, and now, some of them have filed a complaint with the state stating that they routinely work amid health and safety violations.

A 10-year-old Riverside boy accused of killing his white supremacist father made his second court appearance on Friday, where the boy’s attorney was expected to enter a plea. Instead he requested more time to order a psychiatric evaluation of the child.

On Friday, the attorney for a 10-year-old Riverside boy accused of murdering his neo-Nazi father is expected to enter a plea on his behalf. The juvenile court trial has been on hold while the boy undergoes extensive mental health evaluations. The outcome could help determine his future.

Another marathon public hearing over a proposed granite quarry near Temecula has come and gone with no action from county planners. Operators of the 135-acre Liberty Quarry hope to chisel deep into the foothills a few miles south of the city.

UC Riverside is bracing for a new round of budget cuts as the state cuts its support. The word comes from Chancellor Timothy White, who announced last month that funding cuts would delay the opening of Riverside’s new medical school by at least a year.

Another big crowd will pack the Rancho Community Church in Temecula Monday morning for another long hearing on the proposed Liberty Quarry. The quarry could be a significant source of jobs and tax revenue for Riverside County, but there are environmental risks.

The mayor of Colton has died after suffering a heart attack Thursday as he drove home from the civic center. He was 56. David Zamora was elected mayor less than a year ago, but he spent 30 years serving the city of Colton.

On the eve of wildfire season in Southern California, the nation’s biggest firefighting jet may stay earthbound. That’s the plan, anyway - unless the jet’s Victorville operator and state officials can reach some sort of agreement over a new seasonal contract.

Riverside County’s new registrar wants to expand her office’s electronic voting system. Kari Verjil is asking county officials to spend nearly half-a-million dollars on new ballot tabulation machines that could speed up election night returns.

Five years ago, a team of Southern California photographers created the world’s largest photograph. They did it by building a giant camera obscura at a jet hangar at the El Toro Marine airbase in Orange County. The 30-by-111-foot Great Picture was on display there for just a few days, and later for a few weeks in Pasadena. It’s never been exhibited in this country again, until now. Soon, it’ll be suspended in the atrium of UC Riverside’s Culver Center of the Arts.