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New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Smart visited Fresno on May 9, 2025. She shared her story of abuse and perseverance, her mission to bring awareness to victims of sexual violence, and her fight to hold abusers accountable.
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Bobby Salazar, awaits his court hearing on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, before a judge ordered him to pay his $1 million bond or return to jail. The owner of the popular salsa brand and restaurants that bear his name is accused of two arson counts related to a 2024 fire that destroyed his Blackstone Avenue location. He also faces a separate illegal gun charge stemming from a search of his home.
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Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer prepared residents for traffic delays as workers take on fixing roads paid for with a $100 million bond to tackle some of the city’s worst roads on Nov. 5, 2025. The city has about $1.2 billion in deferred road maintenance and about $300 million in deferred sidewalk maintenance, Dyer said. The $100 million will go to repair roads, sidewalks, and median islands.
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The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office dedicated a new memorial honoring 21 deputies who lost their lives in the line of duty on Oct. 29, 2025. The memorial at 1129 N. Armstrong Ave. in Fresno stands as a lasting tribute to courage, service, and the deep bonds shared among those who dedicate their lives to protecting the community.
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Southwest Fresno’s Edison High School celebrated its new state-of-the-art Career Technical Education building, a project eight years in the making, on Nov. 13, 2025. The building houses seven CTE pathways, including biomedical sciences, engineering, computer science, photography, green energy, kinesiology, and a teachers academy.
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Aram I, Catholicos of the Armenian Church at Fresno State, along with archbishops of the ancient church, offered prayers and blessings for victims of the Armenian Genocide at the monument at Fresno State on Nov. 5, 2025.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, speaks after a news conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025.
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The Marjaree Mason Center held a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the transition of all non-residential services to its new Isnardi Foundation Building, which serves survivors of domestic violence in Fresno County, on Feb. 26, 2025. The new building provides crisis response, legal advocacy, therapy, child advocacy, a health clinic, community case management, education, and training for survivors and their children.
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DJ Diesel aka Shaquille O’ Neal was one of the guests for the grand opening of Fresno’s exclusive member’s only club, The PM Lounge, on Nov. 13, 2025. The club at Cedar and Nees avenues will offer Michelin-level food to its membership along with a fine wine bar and golf simulator.
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Artillerymen of the 152nd Separate Jaeger Brigade unload shells for an M114 self-propelled howitzer, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the frontline town of Pokrovsk in Ukraine, Oct. 14, 2025.
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Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, holds his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura's hand, as he appears for a check-in at the ICE Baltimore field on Aug. 25, 2025.
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Psalm Behpoor, right, with his family. A longtime general manager for Pismo’s restaurant, he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement even though he had been cleared for green card restoration after committing a crime as a teen. Behpoor’s story shined a light on ICE’s processes and procedures and rallied the community behind him in August 2025.
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Instead of a big entrance sign, Fresno Ideaworks opted to hire a local artist to paint a massive mural on the front of the building at 1730 H St. Michael Howe is the artist behind the 800 square-foot art piece. The mural, which was featured at the July 3, 2025, ArtHop, is dedicated to those who work with their hands.
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President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to deliver remarks on the U.S. economy and affordability at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 9, 2025.
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An aerial view of the “No Kings Day” on Blackstone and Nees avenues in Fresno. The event was part of a international protest coinciding with Flag Day and President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
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Mindy Casto is sworn in as the 24th and first female chief in Fresno Police Department history on Feb. 28, 2025. Casto joined the police department in 1997.
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Misty Her (6th from the left) is sworn-in as Fresno Unified’ first female superintendent on April 23, 2025. Her comes into the role as a longtime administrator and teacher in a district that for decades has struggled to get students to grade level in reading and math.
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People hold images of dead hostages Ran Gvili and Sudthisak Rinthalak, whose bodies haven’t been returned yet, as Israelis attend a rally on Nov. 29, 2025, calling for the immediate return of the remains of all hostages held in Gaza.
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Mourners pray as Gazan civil defense workers bury the remains of dozens of unidentified Palestinians, returned by Israel as part of the ceasefire deal on Oct. 22, 2025.
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Crowds fill Fresno City Council chambers for a hearing on the Southeast Development Area on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025.
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The lightning-sparked Garnet Fire burns in the Sierra National Forest above Shaver Lake on September 9, 2025.
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The alleged killer of Caleb Quick, shown here circled in red, moments before the shooting. Quick, 18, was fatally shot in the head outside a McDonald’s restaurant near Willow and Nees avenues in what police described as a targeted and pre-planned attack on April 23, 2025.
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Fresno Community members protest along Blackstone Avenue against President Donald Trump’s deportation orders on May 1, 2025. Stan Santos, a spokesperson for the coalition, said the event aimed to show solidarity with working immigrant families in the Central Valley and across the U.S.
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Fresno City Council candidate Brandon Vang (Right) and his wife, May Lee, sit down with GV Wire on March 12, 2025, in an emotional interview about allegations made against his family during the campaign. Vang won the special election to represent Fresno’s District 5.
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