Fresno News

Two public-interest groups are making a final stand in a long legal battle to stop Friant Ranch, a 2,270-home and commercial development that's been approved for the foothills near the San Joaquin River, 10 miles northeast of Fresno.

A motorist early Saturday led authorities on a chase southwest of Fresno before exiting his car, fleeing on foot and finally pointing a firearm at officers who shot and killed him, the Fresno County Sheriff's Department reported.

This shocking case involves a man on the operating table for open-heart surgery.

Thumbs up to Isis Frausto-Vicencio , a sophomore at College of the Sequoias and a Strathmore High School graduate.

California became the nation's first state to ratify a new constitutional amendment making naturalized US citizens eligible for the Presidency, clearing the way for Governor Bieber's expected run this fall.

A Fresno family is holding a car wash Saturday at Blackstone and Ashlan Avenues to raise funds for a baby due this summer, but which could die soon after because of a genetic condition.

Deacon Berj K. Apkarian, center, of Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church in Fresno swings an incense censer during a prayer service next to the Armenian memorial monument at Ararat Cemetery to commemorate the 98th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Tuesday, April 23, 2013.

Fresno County's unemployment rate trickled upward in March, fueled by a seasonal slump in agricultural jobs.

Rosie Torres, owner of Rosie's Flower Shop, prepares easter lily arrangements on April 16, 2014.

Two friends were found guilty Friday of first-degree murder in the killing of a registered sex offender who was stabbed 58 times and his body dumped near Chandler Downtown Airport in southwest Fresno.

Fresno police are now beefing up patrols after a vicious beating outside a bar that was caught on camera.

Eastbound Herndon Avenue near Millbrook Avenue in northeast Fresno in front of St. Agnes Medical Center for a landscaping project.

A Fresno father of four is paralyzed from the waist down after a pickup truck hit him on his bicycle and then took off.

State police have arrested two California men on drug charges after finding more than 26 pounds of heroin in the cab of their tractor-trailer truck.

Bryan McCoy, 22, was spotted by Fresno police detective T.J. Kazarian while visiting a relative in the 3400 block of E. Ashlan Avenue.

Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin, center, joins residents of San Ramon Apartments to celebrate their renovated units.

Tens of thousands of spring-run Chinook salmon are being released into the San Joaquin River, marking a major milestone in the federal plan to restore native fish populations to the state's second-longest river.

Fresno police say a man walked into two businesses Thursday morning and said he had a bomb in his backpack and demanded money.

The Fresno Police Department is holding a news conference Thursday morning to announce the arrest of suspects allegedly responsible for the murder of a woman at Crossroads bar last month.

The San Joaquin Valley receives fewer federal dollars than the rest of the state, and the economically struggling area deserves a boost from the White House, according to two Valley lawmakers asking President Barack Obama to resurrect an economic-development task force focusing on the region.