Firebaugh News

This week, I joined many of my Assembly colleagues in an unprecedented effort to modernize how water in California is managed.

Big crowds are expected on Wednesday at the Manchester Mall. But there not at the mall to shop, they are there to get vaccinated.

No water, no work. That's the ripple effect from a three year drought and only a trickle of federal irrigation water.

It was bound to happen: Some people who aren't at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine.

Fresno County's flu clinics began offering vaccines for the H1N1 flu virus Monday.

Nasal spray vaccine to ward off swine flu began arriving Tuesday in the central San Joaquin Valley.

Despite the recession, several new retailers are headed for Fresno shopping centers.

California has received more than 2.6 million doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine, but in the Central Valley, the doses have mostly been in the form of a nasal spray.

Mark Twain coined the phrase "whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over." It's a fight that's gone on for decades.

Valley residents may need to hold onto their hats Tuesday; the National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for the East Central San Joaquin Valley.

Six people were injured Thursday when a van collided with a tractor pulling a harvester on Nees Avenue east of Douglas Avenue just west of Firebaugh.

West Fresno County residents who rely on bi-weekly food drives may lose this service next week unless new funding becomes available.

YOU couldn't really blame farmers and farm workers in the vast stretches of west San Joaquin Valley these days if they were muttering something like "water czar, schmater czar." For even though U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar came to Fresno and Coalinga at midsummer to announce that he's making his chief deputy secretary an ambassador to the ...

A man accused of several bank robberies, including two in Fresno, is in custody in the Fresno County Jail, police say.

A day after a powerful storm soaked California, state Ag leaders reminded us the drought is far from over and farmers on the Valley's west-side say their water woes are no closer to being solved.

FIREBAUGH, Calif. a " U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar toured an asparagus field and met with farmworkers in the parched San Joaquin Valley to learn more about California's water crisis.Salazar on Sunday praised state legislators for their efforts to craft a wide-ranging water deal over the weekend, but said the state's water system was a 'big ...

The preliminary hearing for former Firebaugh High School Principal Jonas Silverio has been rescheduled for Oct.

As he pressed state lawmakers over the summer to close a record budget deficit, Gov.

From the sky, John Diener's farm looks like a swath of Kansas grafted onto the rugged flatlands of the San Joaquin Valley's west side.

Volunteers make up the engine firing up the long food lines in drought-stricken Fresno County communities like Huron and Firebaugh.