More than 30,000 registered nurses and healthcare professionals across California and Hawai’i began an Unfair Labor Practice strike against Kaiser Permanente on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. Organized alongside the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP), workers gathered at the picket lines to demand safe staffing levels, timely access to quality care, fair wages and a...
On Jan. 30, an estimated 900 people gathered at the Riverside Historic Courthouse before marching to the Cheech Marin Center in downtown Riverside to engage in the nationwide “No business as usual” general strike.
Student groups at the University of Minnesota, including the Somali, Black, Liberian and Ethiopian Student Associations, issued the initial call for a strike following an increased...
Riverside’s State of the City event, held on Jan. 28, 2026, honored award recipients with recognitions like the cultural preservation, the Mayor’s Award and the Riverside Hero Award. Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson took the stage to the upbeat song “Level Up” by the artist known as Ciara, setting a positive foundation for her update on the state of the...
From Jan. 19 to Jan. 23, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026, also referred to as Davos 2026, took place in Davos, Switzerland amidst a time of heightened domestic and global tensions.
At this year’s conference, which marked 56 years of the Forum since its initial 1971 meeting, leaders from various countries and corporations joined together to discuss pressing...
President Donald Trump’s administration has faced major backlash from the American people due to the immigration crackdowns that have taken place since Trump’s re-election. Yet, in the past few weeks, the death of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of an ICE agent has further ignited protests from both citizens and politicians in standing their ground against the presence...
On Jan. 13, 2026, the Riverside City Council voted to reject a $20.1 million state grant intended for homeless housing with four councilmembers voting against the grant and three councilmembers voting in support of it.
Initially, the council voted in favor of pursuing funding on May 20, 2025. The project, University Terrace Homes, aimed to create 30 affordable housing units...
The Mission Grove Neighborhood Alliance (MGNA) hosted the second part of their City Council Candidate Forum series on Jan. 21 at the La Sierra Senior Center located in ward six. Candidates were asked to respond to constituent concerns surrounding the Riverside Transmission Reliability Project (RTRP) and six other topics to give constituents insight into their platform.
In attendance for the...
As of the new year, OpenAI has made plans to begin implementing advertisements to their services as part of maintaining operations and paying back companies. Back in Oct. 2024, Sam Atlman, the chief executive officer of OpenAI, said “I kind of think of ads as like a last resort for us as a business model,” referring to methods of...
On Saturday, Jan. 19, a hiker was found and pronounced dead in Anza. Deputies responded to the 56000 block of East State Highway 74 around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, after receiving a call reporting a group of four hikers had gone for a hike the previous day and had not returned.
The caller also reported that one additional member of their...
On Jan. 21, 2026, the Associated Students of the University of California, Riverside (ASUCR) meeting began at 7:01 p.m. and adjourned at 7:21 p.m., having taken place via Zoom.
The Senate approved Senate Bill SB-W26-002, which aimed to reword language in the ASUCR Elections Code and clarify the Elections Committee’s role in addressing campaign violations.
College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences...