Watch UNFILTERED Live Tonight (March 14) on GVWire.com at 6 p.m. as we discuss this topic! California public schools are required to provide free menstrual products such as tampons in all girls' restrooms, all gender restrooms, and at least one boys' restroom. But two years after Assembly Bill 367 was...
Starbucks Wants to Add a Downtown Fresno Drive-Thru. It’s Under Appeal.
Starbucks wants to add another drive-thru store in downtown Fresno, and city staff has signed off on the plan. But, two appeals are raising traffic and environmental concerns, which the Planning Commission will hear Wednesday evening at City Hall. The coffee purveyor plans to build on a 7,300-square-foot vacant lot...
Atmospheric River Expected to Hit Fresno Hard Tonight, End Wednesday
Wet weather is in the cards for the next eight to 14 days according to longer-range forecasts by the National Weather Services' Climate Prediction Center, said Brian Ochs, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Hanford. Another warm, atmospheric river-type storm is scheduled to arrive in Central California on...
Fresno Deputies Rescue 3 Elderly Women Trapped by Rising Floodwaters
Rising water from heavy rains and snowmelt knocked out a culvert that trapped three elderly women, including a 104-year-old, in their Squaw Valley area home until Fresno County sheriff's deputies could rescue them Friday, Sheriff John Zanoni told reporters. And it wasn't the only rescue. CalFire Capt. Dustin Hail said...
Latest Storm Puts Mother Nature’s Awesome Power on Display in Valley
After three years of drought, the skies are showering the Valley — and all of California — with an abundant supply of rain and snow. Here are images from GV Wire's videographers, as well as from social media posts, of the moisture-laden warm storm that began Thursday, March 9, 2023,...
Balderrama Responds to Activist’s Critical Tweets: ‘I’m the Chief’
Criticism from a Fresno nonprofit leader about how the city is implementing police reform was a topic at Thursday's city council meeting. Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama told the Fresno City Council that most of the reforms suggested by a post-George Floyd police commission have been implemented. The 40-member commission...
Winter Storm Brings Road Closures, Flash Flood Watches, Surging Rivers
The rain-rich storm drenching Central California had flooded some roadways by early Friday morning, and the foothills in eastern Fresno, Madera, and Tulare counties were under flash flood warnings through 11 a.m. Friday. The National Weather Service extended the flash flood warning for northern Fresno County, including the city of...
Fresno County Expands Flood-Zone Evacuation Warning: ‘Be Ready for Unrivaled Flood Event’
Fresno County officials renewed their dire warnings Thursday about the winter storm that's forecast to drop 2 to 3 inches of rain on the Valley floor and as much as 8 inches in the Sierra starting Thursday afternoon. The minimum stream flows that have been predicted are at the upper...
How Much Will Cesar Chavez Boulevard Cost Fresno Taxpayers?
An 11-mile stretch of prominent south Fresno roads will be renamed for late labor leader Cesar Chavez. But several members of the Black community objected to a portion of a road in west Fresno from being part of the change. Honoring Chavez with a street name change in Fresno has...
Storm Could ‘Push Limits’ of San Joaquin Valley’s Flood Protection
If the coming storm hits as predicted starting late Thursday, San Joaquin Valley flooding hot spots — and some new ones thanks to subsidence — could be swamped. It’s not because reservoirs above the valley floor are full. The culprits are likely to be much the smaller and typically dry...