A handful of Fresno Unified paraprofessional employees who work with autistic children at Ericson Elementary School returned Wednesday evening to tell the School Board that recent job reassignments are making their classrooms less safe and cutting into education time. It was their second trip this month to address the board...
Assemblymember Arambula Says He’ll Run for Fresno City Council
Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula will forgo a possible final term in the state Legislature to run for Fresno City Council. "I am grateful for my community, for electing me six times to the Assembly, and I'm looking forward to a '26 election when I can continue to serve my community," Arambula...
Business, Environmental Interests Oppose South Fresno Industrial Plan. What’s Next?
Despite neither community advocates nor business interests supporting a plan dictating land use in south Fresno, a top city official pressured planning commissioners Thursday to send the document to the city council. Planning Commission Chair Peter Vang agreed with other commissioners that the city's South Central Specific Plan required more...
Take a Bow, Bulldog Football Fans. Some Power 4 Schools Would Love to Have You.
Even though Fresno State's football season hasn't lived up to expectations, Bulldog fans are doing their best to maintain the program's national profile. After leading all Group of 5 programs in attendance with an average of 39,939 fans per game in 2023, Fresno State has sold out three of its...
Community Hospital CEO Craig Castro Will Retire in Early 2025
After five years as president and CEO and more than 20 with Community Health Systems, Craig Castro announced he would retire in early 2025. Castro came into the position days before the hospital received its first COVID-19 patient, and as CEO oversaw the expansion of Clovis Community Medical Center. "After...
Conor McGregor Must Pay Woman $250K in Sexual Assault Case, Civil Jury Rules
LONDON — A woman who claimed mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor "brutally raped and battered" her in a Dublin hotel penthouse was awarded nearly 250,000 Euros ($257,000) on Friday by a civil court jury in Ireland. The woman said the Dec. 9, 2018, assault after a night of partying...
Judge Delays Trump Hush Money Sentencing in Order to Decide Where Case Should Go Now
NEW YORK — A judge confirmed Friday that President-elect Donald Trump won't be sentenced this month in his hush money case, instead setting a schedule for prosecutors and his lawyers to expand on their ideas about what to do next. Amid a flurry of filings in the case since Trump's...
Trump Gave Interior Nominee One Directive for a Half-Billion Acres of US Land: ‘Drill’
BISMARCK, N.D. — Donald Trump assigned Doug Burgum a singular mission in nominating the governor of oil-rich North Dakota to lead an agency that oversees a half-billion acres of federal land and vast areas offshore: "Drill baby drill." That dictate from the president-elect's announcement of Burgum for Secretary of Interior...
Fresno State Gets $500K Grant for Students Facing Homelessness
Fresno State’s Center for Essential Needs received a $500,000 Rapid Rehousing and Housing Security Program grant from the CSU Chancellor’s Office to develop and enhance programming for students facing homelessness and housing insecurity. Funds will be disbursed to the center from the Chancellor’s Office through June 2028. Diana Karageozian, lead...
NATO and Ukraine to Hold Emergency Talks After Russia’s Attack With New Hypersonic Missile
KYIV, Ukraine — NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with an experimental, hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war. The conflict is "entering a decisive phase," Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Friday, and "taking on very dramatic dimensions." Ukraine's...