Fresno News

A suspect has been booked on suspicion of starting fires in downtown Fresno, including torching the police chief's car.

Fresno Police nearly caught up with a wanted parolee Monday morning, but he bolted before officers moved in-and took off, in dramatic fashion.

The city of Fresno's 2035 General Plan has been available for the citizens to look over and chew on since July 2. This week it will receive three full-scale public airings: 6:30 p.m. today at Fresno City College's Old Administration Building, 6 p.m. Wednesday during a Planning Commission workshop at City Hall and 2 p.m. Thursday during a Fresno ... (more)

The daughter of Supervisor Deidre Kelsey has filed a claim against Merced County seeking $200,000 and a formal apology for damage to her reputation after county officials made public an internal investigation of the Public Defender's Office.

All of the cuts are to technical staff, chiefly in the area for the collection and transmission of station signals.

A Fresno man has pleaded no contest to fatally stabbing another man at an east-central Fresno apartment complex last year.

Southwest Fresno community and church leaders are calling on Fresno Unified School District to reconsider its hire of a white teacher they say will instruct African-American, Latino and Southeast Asian studies at a new middle school.

The sprint-car race honored Murphy, the Australian native who suffered career-ending injuries last July in a King of the West series race at Antioch.

COL___ Just after noon on July 16, 2014, California Highway Patrol officers left a thermometer in a sedan parked in the CHP Central Division lot in northwest Fresno.

Aaron Blair, the new chief executive of the Downtown Fresno Partnership, is pictured in front of one of the many sculptures on the west end of the Fulton Mall on July 24, 2014.

"It's a scary thing to do at 82 years old, to sign a five-year lease," says Janna Mayne, owner of Janna's Needle Art, located at 1085 E. Herndon Ave. in Fresno.

Can the current drought make us smarter? Many are feeling the pain of a dwindling supply of water: Farmlands sit idle, jobs are lost, cities are forced to make conservation efforts and politicians grope for solutions.

Competitor Jonathan Kehler of Modesto tries to complete a rope swing jump on one of the obstacles at the Central California Ninja Warrior Training Course two-day Summer Invite competition in Clovis Saturday, July 27, 2014.

Faith in Community -- made up of about 20 faith groups that do humanitarian work in Fresno -- will open an office in south-central Fresno, just north of Highway 180.

Gov. Jerry Brown has been steadfastly consistent in his speeches: California's future and economic prosperity depends on educating and training its diverse young population to compete in a technology-based world economy.

Fresno police officers intercepted a man carrying what looked like a high-powered assault rifle Friday evening on the Tuolumne street overpass near Highway 99. Sgt.

Melissa Carleton's eyes open and her gaze meets Lande's, but only for seconds before she drifts back to sleep.

Tou Moua, a water conservation representative for the city of Fresno, leaves a home where he left a notice for use of sprinklers during a prohibited time of day, flooding gutters and causing flooding to a neighbor's property Wednesday, July 9, 2014 in Fresno, Calif.

Melissa Carleton, in a minimally conscious state since March, is tended to by husband Brian Lande, and her parents, as well as taking care of two-month-old son, West.

George Hostetter, a Fresno Bee reporter since 1987, knows Fresno and the trappings of its government from the top of his hat to the tip of his shoes, which he wears out with round trips between the office and City Hall.