In the News

February 05, 2019

By Ryan Hagen

Michelle Obama said to reach higher. So Norte Vista High School in Riverside is reaching for a visit from the former first lady.

Inspired by Obama’s “Reach Higher” initiative, which encourages students to attend college or professional training after high school, students and staff members at the school have launched a focused effort to get her to speak on campus.

Obama hasn’t indicated whether she might come. But as she tours the country to promote her memoir, “Becoming,” she’s already given some personal attention to Norte Vista.

January 22, 2019

Senator Richard Roth of Riverside is introducing Senate Bill 56 that will set aside a one-time payment for the construction of a new medical facility at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine.

January 15, 2019

State Senator Richard Roth has proposed a bill that would alleviate the Inland Empire's severe shortage of physicians. Click the image to listen to KVCR's Benjamin Purper's report.

January 10, 2019

Hoping to stave off “a public health crisis” from afflicting the Inland Empire, Riverside’s delegation to Sacramento wants tens of millions of dollars in state funding so UC Riverside’s medical school can double its enrollment.

January 10, 2019

By Politico Team

The Los Angeles teachers union delayed its planned strike until Monday but pledged to move forward with its plans — raising the possibility of a new wave of “educator spring” activity resurrected in the blue state of California.

A teacher walkout in Los Angeles — home to the nation’s second-largest school district — would be the city’s first since 1989, and sure to disrupt a city where 80 percent of school kids qualify for free or reduced lunch.

November 27, 2018

By Malcolm Maclachlan

Several fast-growing inland counties are still short on judges, according to a preliminary draft of the latest biennial Judicial Needs Assessment from the Judicial Council. Meanwhile, a Riverside state legislator said he will once again introduce a bill to increase the number of judges in the state.

The Judicial Council will review the report on Friday as part of its regular meeting in San Francisco. A final report will be released after a judicial workload study if it is finished next year.

October 28, 2018

By Leticia Juarez
Cadiz, a water supply company, wants to pump out and sell 50,000 acre-feet of water from an aquifer under the Mojave Desert.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is trying to stop them. "It's those aquifers that keep the plant life growing which nourish the animals -- the bighorn sheep and the desert tortoises," the California Democrat said at a news conference at the Whitewater Preserve in Riverside County.
Feinstein, along with Rep. Raul Ruiz and state Sen. Richard Roth, spoke out against the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project.

October 25, 2018

California U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) joined local leaders Congressman Raul Ruiz (D) and Sen. Richard Roth (D) at Whitewater Preserve to support preserving the water aquifer underneath the Mojave Desert from business interests. 

September 24, 2018

By Andre Mouchard

Before his name was on a local jail, before a criminal justice department at UC Riverside was named in his honor, before his decades in the state senate made him an icon of Riverside and California politics, Robert B. Presley already was something rare:

A war hero.

Presley won the Bronze Star in World War II, while serving in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Italy.