San Joaquin News

A preschool in southwest Fresno was evacuated after a nearby gas line was ruptured Friday, the Fresno Fire Department said.

IRVINE School leaders on Tuesday agreed to partner with Sun Edison for an ambitious plan to install solar panels at nearly two-dozen Irvine Unified campuses, potentially saving millions in energy costs.

President Barack Obama is trying to overhaul public education by offering states billions of dollars in stimulus money if they improve student assessments, teacher effectiveness, collection and use of data, and support for struggling schools.

Sharon Henry, music minister at Stockton's Valley Ministries MCC church, had a commitment ceremony in October 2004.

The momentous reform of California's water system signed into law last week is largely toothless where it matters most: Action to reverse the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta's environmental decline.

Ten months into the worst dairy crisis in memory, Justin Gioletti hopes to tough it out.

The Fresno County Sheriffa s Department says the suspect in a deadly stabbing in San Joaquin has been captured.

A growing number of school districts in the Valley and around the country are reporting dramatic success with an English-immersion program developed by a Clovis educational consultant.

The suspect believed to be responsible for a fatal San Joaquin stabbing has been found.

Fresno County Sheriff's Deputies were called to the scene of a fatal stabbing Monday afternoon in the City of San Joaquin.

A Valley suspect wanted in the stabbing death of a friend is in custody. Rodrigo Velasquez died Monday after being stabbed outside a market in the Fresno County town of San Joaquin.

We know more about how state lawmakers managed to pass that $11-billion water bond last week.

The Fresno County Sheriffa s Department is asking for your help to find the man they say stabbed and killed a man in San Joaquin.It happened just before 3:00pm Monday afternoon, at Los Amigos Grocery Store .

San Joaquin Valley Democratic Reps. Dennis Cardoza and Jerry McNerney voted for, as Cardoza put it, "the greatest improvement to the quality of health care for all Americans since the creation of Medicare." Republican Rep.

The state will have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in interest each year that could go to education.

Police have arrested a man they say fired shots during an armed robbery in Reedley.

Framed by a shrinking mountain reservoir, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a far-reaching water bond Monday intended to rebuild California's crumbling water system and fund new dams to save up the precious resource for dry years.

Fresno County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the apparent murder of a man outside the Los Amigos market in San Joaquin shortly before 3 p.m. The man had been stabbed, said Sheriff's spokesman Chris Curtice.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said independent scientists will explore alternative ways to protect a native fish species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that could allow more water to California's farm belt.

Has your boss cut your pay? Taken away overtime? Reduced your workweek? Eliminated raises? Chopped your benefits? Put you on an unpaid furlough? Join the millions who have seen their take-home pay flattened by the double whammy of recession and its nationwide 10.2 percent-and-still-rising unemployment rate.