Fresno County News

Across the United States and in the San Joaquin Valley, the number of poor people living in suburbs is growing faster than in urban cores -- the historic focus of anti-poverty efforts and social services.

Fire officials in the Central Valley farming community of Reedley evacuated an elementary school after a winery next door to the school caught on fire.

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Folks in the southwest Fresno County town of Lanare avoid drinking arsenic-laced water from their taps.

A two-alarm commercial fire at La Tapatia Tortilleria in central Fresno late Sunday morning was contained quickly by Fresno firefighters, limiting the damage to less than $1,000, the Fresno Fire Department said.

Fresno County fire crews battled a fire in Mendota that sent a lot of smoke into the air.

Two of them broke out Friday. Around one this Friday a fire broke out near southbound Interstate 5 in Castaic.

A federal parolee wanted in connection with an armed robbery of a Bay Area bank was arrested Thursday evening after leading law-enforcement officers on a high-speed chase that started in central Fresno and ended in Tulare County.

Fresno County firefighters have contained one grass fire east of Clovis and are working on another that broke out Friday afternoon near Auberry.

The Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District has notified the Fresno County Department of Public Health of the positive test results provided by the State's laboratory at UC Davis.

The man who rose to internet fame for an incident in Fresno has been arrested for murder in New Jersey.

Gov. Jerry Brown's new budget proposal pours millions of dollars into California's welfare-to-work program, offering a boost for the Valley, where unemployment ranks among the highest in the state.

Education leaders in the Valley are reacting mostly positively to Gov. Jerry Brown's latest budget proposal, anticipating there will be an increase in state money for local schools.

Linda Penner, Fresno County's chief probation officer for the past seven years, was appointed Wednesday by Gov.

Like hundreds of other Tea Party rallies across the country, the one in Fresno in 2009 may have been targeted by the IRS.

Calfornia's finances appear to be in good shape. That's according to the May revise budget released Tuesday morning by Governor Jerry Brown.

A big boost for valley schools as the annual Gold Buying Event sponsored by the Fresno Coin Gallery raised more than $72,000 dollars for the Fresno and Tulare County Offices of Education.

A felony warrant has been issued for a woman whose horses were taken from her Reedley-area property a year ago after authorities said the animals were neglected and malnourished.

Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims will join a White House briefing Tuesday on immigration reform, the Sheriff's Office said.

A contract between Measure G's political consultant and the Fresno County GOP has divided local Republicans, with some feeling it could lead to the same trouble that in 2009 earned the organization a fine from the state's political watchdog.