Hanford News

Get the Latest CBS47 News Update from Friday Afternoon, November 6th. Family and friends of a Merced soldier killed in Iraq will be saying their final good byes this weekend.

For political junkies, the race for a South Valley Assembly seat has it all -- a long-standing feud, campaign cash pouring in and an unpredictable finish.

Sales-tax revenues in the central San Joaquin Valley fell sharply in the second quarter of this year, marking some of the worst declines in decades and posing scary budget threats for local government.

The dream political matchup of Fran Florez versus Pete Parra for state Assembly turned real Tuesday with Parra announcing he's definitely running in the 30th District Democratic primary next year.

A small group of Afghan public safety officers is in Fresno this week to learn from their U.S. counterparts in a rare training program.

The family of 65-year-old Robert Lee Adams made an emotional plea to the public last August.

Three Fresno police officers shot and wounded a man Monday morning after he fired several rounds into a southeast Fresno church and then stood in an intersection waving a handgun at officers, police said.

A man who sneaked a bag of his feces into a San Diego courtroom during his trial, smeared it on his lawyer and threw it at jurors has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.

A funeral service for Lance Cpl. Alfonso Ochoa Jr., the 20-year-old Marine from Armona killed in Afghanistan, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at First Christian Reformed Church in Hanford.

The race for the valley's 30th district assembly seat could get very interesting in 2010.

On the day Adrian Gonzalez was born, the odds were against him. "They told me he would last three hours, not even through the day," Martina Villarreal, Adrian's mother said.

HANFORD, Calif. a " Kings County planners have approved the expansion of a hazardous waste facility in Kettleman City, even as state health officials continue weighing the project's possible impacts.The facility is one of the largest hazardous waste dumps in the country, and a large employer in the county's rural reaches near Interstate 5.Monday, ...

A retired Kings County woman has died of complications from the swine flu, the first swine-flu-related death in the county, health officials said Wednesday.

A woman was airlifted to a Fresno hospital this morning after the pickup she was driving blew a tire and crashed near Hanford.

People in the home state of Lance Cpl. Alfonso Ochoa Jr. - the 20-year-old Kane'ohe-based Marine killed in action Saturday in Afghanistan - were saddened yesterday by news of the young man's death.

About 30 union members today protested the upcoming layoffs of prison teachers in Hanford, saying the job cuts will lead to more crime and cause parolees to return to prison because they will lack education and skills.

The Hanford Police Department is warning parents to be on alert on Thursday morning, following an attempted kidnapping.

Nathan Hubbard, 21, Buchanan High School graduate Marine Lance Cpl. Christian Vasquez, 20, of Coalinga Army Cpl.

When Joshua M. Mills was young, he aspired to two careers, and only one was in the military.

Specialty diecaster Thresher Industries Inc. reports it has acquired a self-pouring casting machine, allowing it to increase the size of the parts it produces.