Dos Rios Ranch State Park opened its gates to the public Wednesday, marking the debut of Stanislaus County's second state park, The Modesto Bee reported. Turlock Lake State Recreation Area, the only other state park in the county, has been closed since 2021 as officials seek a new operator. The...
Arias Asks the Big Question: Is Benching Chief Balderrama About Race?
Fresno City Councilmember Miguel Arias is speaking on the sidelining of Police Chief Paco Balderrama — the first of his colleagues to go public with their thoughts. In comments from the dais during Thursday's council meeting, Arias asked the media to leave Balderrama's family out of stories and openly questioned...
Fresno’s Juneteenth Freedom Run/Walk Inspired by Legacy of Opal Lee
“The 5-mile run distance is twice the length that Opal Lee, the 96-year-old who is known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” walked to collect signatures to make Juneteenth a holiday,” note organizers of Fresno's Juneteenth Freedom Run/Walk. “The initial 2.5 miles were a symbol that, in Texas, ‘the enslaved didn’t...
Fresno State’s Craig School Dean Honored with Humanitarian Award
Dr. Julie B. Olson-Buchanan, dean of the Craig School of Business at Fresno State, was honored by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology with its 2024 Humanitarian Award, presented at the society’s annual conference in April. The Humanitarian Award recognizes members who have enhanced the society through their research,...
What’s the Value of a Fresno Unified Diploma When These ‘Classes’ Are as Easy as A-B-C?
A regulation basketball hoop is 10 feet high. Now imagine that, in some high school gyms, it’s been moved down a notch. Then it continues to edge down from time to time. Would making a basket have the same value under these altered conditions? Definitely not. At what point would...
Trustees OK Bullard High Security Fence, Deny Charter School’s Independent Study Bid
Bullard High School will finally get its long-awaited security fence after the Fresno Unified School Board voted 7-0 Wednesday to approved a $2 million contract for fencing and security gates. The project will align the northwest Fresno high school with many other district schools that have a single point of...
Fresno Dutch Bros, Other Businesses Will Have to Make Way for Railroad Project
The Fresno City Council decided Thursday to buy several properties at Blackstone and McKinley avenues, including a Dutch Bros and one of Fresno's oldest auto shops, to make way for two underpasses. To cross beneath the railroad tracks at that intersection, the city needs to use its eminent domain powers...
Attraction Starring Disney’s First Black Princess Replaces Ride Based on Film Many Viewed as Racist
ORLANDO — A new attraction starring the first Black Disney princess is opening at the company’s U.S. theme park resorts, and some Disney followers see it as a fitting replacement to a former ride based on a movie that contained racist tropes. The new theme park attraction updates Tiana's storyline...
UCLA Names New Chancellor as Campus Is Still Reeling From Protests Over Israel-Hamas War
LOS ANGELES — The president of the University of Miami was chosen Wednesday to become the next chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, where the retiring incumbent leaves a campus roiled by protests over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Dr. Julio Frenk, a Mexico City-born global public...
Trump Returns to Capitol Hill and Whips Up Republican Lawmakers, a First Meeting Since Jan. 6 Attack
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump made a triumphant return Thursday to Capitol Hill, whipping up House and Senate Republicans in his first meetings since the Jan.6, 2021 attacks, embraced by GOP lawmakers who find themselves newly energized by his bid to retake the White House. Despite the federal charges against Trump...