Kurt Angle will once again be in the main event in Fresno, but he will be on the diamond instead of the ring. Angle — a 12-time pro wrestling world champion, Olympic wrestling gold medalist, WWE and National Wrestling hall of famer — will be a special guest of the...
Former Fresno Police Chief Balderrama Makes His Next Career Move
Former Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama has formed a consulting company. One day before his official last day with Fresno, Balderrama filed papers with the California Secretary of State to create El Matador Consulting LLC, on July 24. He listed his Tesoro Viejo address in Madera County for the business...
Lawsuit Alleges Community Health Diverted $1B from the Needy to ‘Whiter’ Clovis Hospital
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...