Fresno News

A political expert wonders if Ashley Swearengin can run for state controller and run California's fifth-largest city at the same time.

Bubble-gum pink insulation foam now covers what soon will be walls at Rutherford B. Gaston Middle School in southwest Fresno.

FRESNO, Calif. -- The career criminal whose participation in a notorious murder spurred California's so-called three strikes law has been arrested again.

Two men who work for "We Be Sober" -- a taxi service with a mission to drive people home safely after they've been drinking in the Fresno and Clovis areas -- were struck by a suspected drunk driver while headed to pick up a customer in Fresno's Tower District in the early hours of Saturday, said Fresno Police Sgt.

Lane closures are planned in Fresno over the next several weeks for sewer and railroad improvement projects, city officials announced Saturday.

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FoodLink for Tulare County, Inc., is preparing for a big change later this year with a planned move from its current Visalia warehouse and headquarters to another warehouse in Exeter.

Hanford High's Thomas Spinks, left, drives through the Monache defense in the finals for the Central Section Boy's Division II basketball championship Friday night, March 7, 2014 in Fresno, Calif.

A huge fire in Downtown Fresno destroyed an abandoned warehouse. The fire happened in an industrial area at the corner of Orange Avenue and Church Avenue in an old cotton mill.

A group from NorthPointe Community Church in northwest Fresno Ron visits the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

A Fresno man whose long rap sheet inspired California's Three Strikes law is back in the Fresno County Jail, charged with corporal injury to a spouse and violation of probation.

The Central Section boys and girls championship basketball games are March 7-8 at Selland Area in Fresno.

EL DORADO HILLS Community Services District's new hires started work recently. Left to right are Director of Parks and Planning Kevin Loewen, Director of Recreation Jill Ritzman and Director of Administration and Finance AJ Holms.

Fresno and Clovis Fire Department personnel respond to an accident involving a vehicle in a ditch at the northwest corner of Herndon and Willow Avenues Thursday afternoon, March 6, 2014 in Clovis, Calif.

A member of the Fresno County Sheriff's Office Eagle One helicopter crew talks to students at Jackson Elementary School in Sanger, Calif., on Thursday morning, March 6, 2014, while crew members work on the helicopter.

Ashley Swearengin, mayor of Fresno, Calif., during the United States Conference of Mayors at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2013.

The Fresno Chamber of Commerce presented its annual honors at the Valley Business Awards luncheon March 6 at the Fresno Convention Center.

Businesses were evacuated Thursday morning after a gas line ruptured near G Street and Divisadero in downtown Fresno.

A 21-year-old Fresno man admitted Thursday that he murdered his father and assaulted his mother inside the family home last December.

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