A lawsuit from two nonprofit groups alleges that Community Health took funding intended for its downtown Fresno hospital, which serves many of the region's poorest residents, and diverted those resources to the system's hospital in suburban Clovis. The lawsuit from Cultiva La Salud and Fresno Building Healthy Communities claims that...
EPA Bans Dangerous Herbicide Used on Fresno and Kern County Crops
A dangerous herbicide banned immediately by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been sprayed on crops in many California counties and has contaminated groundwater in low concentrations in the Salinas Valley and Santa Barbara County. The weed-killing chemical, known as DCPA or Dacthal, can harm the developing brains of babies...
Fresno Supervisors Give Controversial Housing Project Time to Secure $32 Million
Fresno County supervisors are giving an affordable housing developer until early 2025 to secure $32 million for a controversial project. Otherwise, the county will withdraw from an application for $11.9 million in state funding. Supervisor Steve Brandau said on Tuesday that the $56 million Libre Commons proposed by developers UPHoldings...
Clovis Voters Will Decide Whether to Raise City Sales Tax
Clovis voters will decide whether to raise the city's sales tax by a penny. Monday night, the Clovis City Council voted 5-0 to place the item on the Nov. 5 ballot. The city said the 1-cent sales tax hike would generate $28 million in annual revenue for the general fund....
State Center Trustees Put $698M Bond Measure on November Ballot
Update, 5:38 p.m.: The State Center Community College District Board of Directors voted 7-0 to put a $698 million bond measure on the November ballot. There was little discussion by the board before the vote, but the trustees heard from a number of audience members in person and online expressing...
LGBTQ Library Material Came Under Fire in Fresno. Now California May End Book Bans.
The presentation was unassuming, just a handful of picture books arrayed on the side of a bookcase — the ABCs of a Pride parade, biographies of the gay World War II codebreaker Alan Turing and 50 LGBTQ+ people who made history, the sex education manual "It's Perfectly Normal," a retelling...
Ownership Change at Summer Fox Brewing. What Does It Mean for Classic Tower District Space?
A behind-the-scenes ownership change at a popular Fresno brewery means two new labels for the company. Meanwhile, work is nearing completion for the former Audie's Olympic space in the Tower District. Summer Fox Brewing began as a project between two Fresno couples. But now one of those couples has stepped...
ArtHop: A Night of Resistance, Confusion, Emotion, and Scams
Despite directives from city officials banning their presence, street vendors turned out for Thursday night's ArtHop in downtown Fresno. It was difficult to tell if the vendor ban, the hot temperatures — or both — produced a smaller crowd. Suffice to say that ArtHop went on amid vendor resistance and...
Misty Her Chops 170 FUSD Goals to Two: Boosting Student Outcomes, Customer Service
Fresno Unified Interim Superintendent Misty Her has been busy this summer crafting her 100 Day Plan with goals designed to lift up students in the state’s third-largest school district. She’s been working in temporary quarters in an FUSD building at the corner of Fresno and Fulton streets while the Educational...
Fresno Wins Quarter-Billion Settlement Over Tainted Drinking Water
In the largest known settlement of its kind, the city of Fresno won $230 million from the Dow Chemical Co. and Shell Oil for contaminating wells with a chemical they hid inside of a pesticide. For decades, Dow and Shell put 1,2,3-Trichloropropane into nematocides, according to settlement terms acquired by...