College student’s design selected for film festival

By City News Service, on March 5, 2013, at 1:31 pm
(Credit: Flickr)

Riverside City College student’s creation for the Riverside International Film Festival is appearing all over downtown this week. Noor Khodr, [...] Read More

Despite tragedy, the Black History Parade will go on in Riverside

By City News Service, on February 8, 2013, at 4:22 pm
(Joe Fanaselle/SWRNN)

The Riverside Black History Parade will be held tomorrow as planned despite the city’s tragic week, according to a spokeswoman, [...] Read More

Olympic gold medal winner Tyler Clary to be honored at Riverside reception

By City News Service, on September 7, 2012, at 12:31 am
Riverside native and Olympic swimmer Tyler Clary (Credit: usaswimming.org)

Riverside native and Olympic swimmer Tyler Clary — who won the gold medal in the 200-meter backstroke at the London [...] Read More

Summer Institute helps area educators create enthusiasm for science

By SWRNN Staff, on July 29, 2011, at 2:44 pm
Dr. Richard Cardullo, UC Riverside Biology Chair, instructs middle school math teachers at the Summer Institute for science. (Courtesy photo)

Eighty middle school science teachers spent the last two weeks in Norco, extracting DNA from strawberries, puzzling out the hereditary [...] Read More

Former Paloma Valley HS softball player remembered with memorial game

By Jose Arballo, on November 1, 2010, at 12:05 pm

Afton Williamson, 20, of Lake Elsinore, died on Nov. 2, along with two of her Dickinson State University softball teammates. Read More

Riverside gets $3 million from Microsoft founder to boost college grad rate

By Maggie Avants, on September 27, 2010, at 8:06 pm

The grant is to be used over a three-year period to align academic standards between high school and college, boosting college graduation rates. Read More