In its 33rd year, the festival put on by the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, features more than 10 million lights on the hotel and ...

A Riverside holiday tradition returns this weekend when the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa throws the switch to begin the 33rd Festival of Lights.

The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa's annual Festival of Lights celebration lit up with a bang on Saturday, Nov. 23. Celebratory fireworks accompanied the electric surge of more than 10 million Christmas ...

The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa lit up the sky Saturday night, Nov. 22, as the Festival of Lights started its 33rd year. This year’s switch-on ceremony was dedicated to Duane Roberts, co-owner of the ...

With fanfare, elaborate lights came on all at once on the exterior of Riverside’s imposing Mission Inn Hotel & Spa. Fireworks ...

The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in downtown Riverside has temporarily closed because of a water issue with its boiler system, a spokesperson said Wednesday, Aug. 13. RELATED: It’s been 40 years since the ...

In 1992, the Mission Inn had been surrounded by chain-link fencing for seven years. What was supposed to have been a two-year renovation had dragged on. The owner went bankrupt. The lender completed ...

Riverside's Mission Inn Hotel & Spa is offering first-time-ever tours of the catacombs beneath the hotel this Halloween season. From Tuesday, Oct. 1 through Nov. 30, the tours will bring curious ...

A catacomb is, by definition, an underground chamber used as a burial place. Some are centuries or even millennia old. The most famous are in Rome. In Paris, one atmospheric entry sign reads, when ...

Riverside’s Mission Inn is a favorite stop of tourists traveling through Southern California. It’s also a popular destination for US Presidents. Only here, in the historic hotel’s immense and opulent ...

I mention the City of Riverside in my travel columns from time to time. And there is a good reason for this: I was born and raised there. I resided in the city bordering the Santa Ana River — where it ...