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Brandau Wants County to Start Clearing Homeless Encampments

Local governments no longer have to have available shelter before ordering homeless people to move. And one Fresno County supervisor wants t...

Brandau Wants County to Start Clearing Homeless Encampments

Local governments no longer have to have available shelter before ordering homeless people to move. And one Fresno County supervisor wants t...

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$1 Million Settlement in Fire Death Sparking Fresno Mobile Home Park Controversy

A settlement has been reached in a trailer park fire death that sparked years of continuing controversy surrounding Trails End Mobile Home P...

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Some Black Families in California Gold Rush Town Fight for Ancestors’ Land

COLOMA — In a tiny town where the California gold rush began, Black families are seeking restitution for land that was taken from their ance...

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California Sent a Mentally Ill Man to a State Hospital. Then It Charged Him $760,000

The first bill arrived in Sultan Khan’s mailbox two years after his release from Napa State Hospital. Khan had received psychiatric tr...

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Air Pollution Costs Valley Residents Millions in’Preventable’ Medical Costs: Study

Air in the San Joaquin Valley costs a fortune. So say researchers at UC Merced, who found that three prevalent air pollutants in the region ...

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Cities Nationwide Dropping ShotSpotter: How Has the Gun Detection Tech Performed in Fresno?

The revolutionary technology that promised to be law enforcement’s ears in the fight to combat gun violence has the nation divided on its ef...

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Californians Will Decide — in 2024 — Whether to Ban Slavery. What Will the Measure Do?

In 1850, California joined the United States union as a state that outlawed indentured servitude and slavery, except for those serving out a...

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A Nonprofit Got Jobs for Disabled Workers in California Prisons. A Union Dispute Could End Them

A long-simmering dispute between California’s largest state employee union and a nonprofit organization that hires disabled workers is comin...

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A Lost Credit Card and $7 Cheeseburger Reignites CA’s Debate Over Excessive Bail

By most metrics, Gerald Kowalczyk was a uniquely bad candidate to leave jail before his trial. He had a criminal record of more than 60 conv...

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Cheated Out of Your Paycheck? Help in Fresno Is on the Way

The Fresno City Attorney’s Office received $720,000 from the California Labor Commissioner to prosecute businesses for not paying work...

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Gena Rowlands, Acting Powerhouse and Star of Movies by Her Director-Husband, John Cassavetes, Dies

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Schools Have Made Slow Progress on Record Absenteeism, With Millions of Kids Still Skipping Class

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