Conducting a concert with instruments played at Nazi concentration camps is personal for Fresno State music professor Thomas Loewenheim. The touring Violins of Hope arrives in Fresno on Saturday. The violins, violas and cellos once belonged to European Jews of the Holocaust. Loewenheim said 90 percent of his family perished in...
Fresno Council Picks Its Own Map for Next Decade of Elections
After using nearly $100,000 of taxpayer dollars to have a consultant draw new electoral maps, the Fresno City Council went with its own map on Thursday. It's a status-quo map that largely left many council districts intact — after eight public hearings and workshops, hundreds of comments and untold hours...
Unsafe Conditions Continue for Children Under Fresno County CPS Custody
In the two months since Fresno County social workers revealed that foster youth were being housed in harsh, unsafe, and unsanitary conditions, it appears there are continuing problems. Children once staying at the Child Welfare Services Office in downtown Fresno — the main hub for Fresno County’s Child Protective Services...
CNN Rides With Sheriff’s Deputy to Document Fresno’s ‘Meth Hell’
"Meth has taken control of a large swath of Fresno County," CNN reported Tuesday. "There were more meth overdose deaths in Fresno County in 2020 than those of any other kind of drug, according to the coroner's unit." CNN reporter Kyung Lah went on a graveyard shift ride-along with Sheriff's...
Fresno Redistricting? We Made a Map.
Anyone can be a demographer and submit the next electoral map for the city of Fresno. So, as an exercise in democracy, GV Wire submitted one. It's Public 109 on your scoresheet. The city council will consider the next round of maps submitted by the public on Thursday at 6...
Fresno State Library Namesake Was a Nazi Sympathizer. Task Force Will Review Renaming.
Fresno State's library has borne the name of longtime librarian Henry Madden since 1981, but the university is considering a name change after anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi beliefs were uncovered in his personal papers, university president Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval said Monday in an open letter to the university community. Madden's personal papers,...
CHP Searches for Car Involved in Killing of Fresno State TikTok Star
Devan Nicole Elayda, a Fresno State student and TikTok star, was killed early Saturday morning in a hit-and-run on Highway 180 near Cedar Avenue. Elayda, 23, was driving on Highway 180 when it is believed that she decided to exchange seats with a passenger, according to the California Highway Patrol....
Career as a NASA Engineer? This Fresno Teen Shoots for the Stars
Angelica Sandez wants to study aerospace or mechanical engineering at the Imperial College London in England after she graduates this spring from Career Technical Education Charter High School in Fresno. Her dad is still struggling with the idea that his youngest child could wind up at a college half a...
Second Lawsuit Claims City’s Scoring of Cannabis Applicants Flawed
The city of Fresno is facing yet another cannabis lawsuit, and if Perfect Union gets its way, the entire licensing process may be halted. Fresno County Superior Court Judge Mark Cullers will hear the marijuana retailer's request — known as a stay — at a hearing next week. Perfect Union...
Special Report: Small Farmers Struggle as Ag Titans Boswell, Vidovich Wheel Water for Profit
Farmers in the heart of California’s agricultural belt – Kings County – sense something is awry with their water supplies. In this intensively farmed, perennially dry county, water is leaving at a concerning rate. “We’ve all seen it,” said walnut farmer Steve Walker. “We haven’t sat down and put dye...