Fresno County News

Fresno County is continuing to see sluggish employment growth, at only about 1.2% this year, according to the latest quarterly economic forecast issued Thursday by the University of the Pacific in Stockton.

The Fresno City Council on a 4-3 vote Thursday morning rejected proposed bicycle lanes on Fruit Avenue in northwest Fresno.

At a rare Fresno meeting of the 125-year-old Geological Society of America, Sanger hydrologist David Cehrs linked city growth to an expanding water crisis in the San Joaquin Valley.

The second suspect in the Firebaugh home invasion that left one intruder dead over the weekend was arrested in Nevada on Wednesday, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said.

A 49-year-old man was shot and killed in Parlier on Wednesday. Investigators haven't released the name of the victim, or identified suspects.

A 25-year-old registered sex offender has been arrested after authorities discovered child pornography on his computer's hard drive as he sat near the children's play area at a McDonald's restaurant in Selma, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

Two men were arrested Monday after deputies caught the pair burglarizing a Fig Garden home, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said.

Fresno County sheriff's investigators say Jeremy Hudler was taken into custody when an investigation uncovered he used file sharing programs to download and distribute the illegal materials.

Both sides in a long-running fight over the future of a southwest Fresno rendering plant made their final arguments in a yearlong lawsuit on Tuesday afternoon in Fresno County Superior Court.

Juicy blackberries, sweet-tasting peaches and hearty nuts are in abundance this time of the year on Fresno County's Fruit Trail -- a self-guided tour of family farms, fruit stands and local restaurants.

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.