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A community reception honoring Elizabeth Diaz, Fresno County's new public defender, will be held Wednesday evening at the Downtown Club.

The framework for First 5 Fresno County's new structure for Lighthouse for Children, to the left, takes shape in downtown Fresno.

A big rig dumped a load of peaches on the onramp from Friant Road to southbound Highway 41 on Tuesday, July 29, 2014.

A man killed in a single-vehicle accident Saturday night has been identified as 32-year-old Steven Joseph Martin of Fresno.

A 35-year-old Springville woman and a Clovis boy were injured Sunday in an ATV accident near Porterville, the California Highway Patrol said.

Five Fresno men were arrested Sunday in connection with an ongoing vehicle burglary investigation in northwest Fresno, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said.

In a Fresno courtroom Tuesday, a tearful Fresno father looked at his shackled daughter and told her he forgave her for trying to kill him and her mother while they slept inside their home two years ago.

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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.