A wide-ranging letter from J.G. Boswell Company Vice President Jeof Wyrick accuses SJV Water of misrepresenting the farming giant’s plan to deal with subsidence, land sinking from excessive groundwater pumping, which has impacted huge swaths of the San Joaquin Valley, including around the small town of Corcoran. Wyrick is also the chair...
A Measure C Citizen Oversight Committee Without US Citizens?
The Measure C Citizen Oversight Committee may not include citizens if the proposed tax renewal follows one suggestion. At a meeting on Oct. 16, advisory committee member Veronica Garibay asked why it's a requirement to be a U.S. citizen to sit on the oversight committee. "I recommend removing that given...
Why Did Nearly All Central Valley Lawmakers Back Controversial Housing Bill?
Nearly the entire Central Valley delegation in Sacramento — Democrats and Republicans — voted for a housing measure that some experts say could drastically increase costs. Supporters, such as state Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, said the bill will help increase housing stock. The bill, AB 130, builds on the state’s...
US Cattle Ranchers, Soybean Farmers Are Fed Up With Trump
American ranchers and farmers are increasingly voicing their frustration with President Donald Trump's tariffs and cozy deals with Argentina. Trump's policies, they say, are having a devastating effect on American ag production and the bottom line for farmers. Top of mind this week: Trump's proposal that the U.S. buy beef...
Fresno Housing Killer Buried in Newsom’s Latest Budget. What Can City Council Do?
California came up with a law 12 years ago aimed to lower greenhouse gas emissions by limiting urban sprawl. Complex formulas predicted how far people in new home developments would drive to work, school, or shop and used that to decide how much to tax people in new developments outside...
ABC’s Bob Woodruff to Share Lessons of Survival and Service in Fresno Talk
No one knows the danger of war reporting better than Bob Woodruff. Only a month after being named anchor of ABC World News Tonight in December 2005 — succeeding the late Peter Jennings — Woodruff suffered a traumatic brain injury from a roadside bomb while reporting in Iraq. Woodruff recovered...
CA Releases Student Test Scores, Lowers Expectations. How Did Fresno Unified Do?
The California Department of Education released state assessment results Thursday — showing statewide improvements — alongside updates on what is considered “meeting expectations.” Before Thursday's change, the state considered level 3, standard met, and level 4, standard exceeded, as meeting expectations on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium student tests. The...
Fresno Unified Allowed Registered Sex Offender to Coach at High School, Claim Alleges
Fresno Unified School District allowed a registered sex offender to become a volunteer sports coach and failed to investigate complaints made by student-athletes about the coach's inappropriate conduct while he was coaching at Fresno High School, according to a recent claim. The coach, Dusty William Lewis, was convicted of rape...
What’s Behind the Doors at a North Fresno Social Club Promising Michelin-Level Food?
Over the decades, Fresno has grown enough wealth to support a Michelin-star restaurant, says Gilbert Quesada, director of operations for the PM Lounge. "This is generations of wealth. Their family businesses are now companies and corporations," Quesada said. Instead of Fresno's top earners turning to places such as Las Vegas,...
West Nile Virus Claims a Third Life in the San Joaquin Valley
West Nile virus, a disease that is typically transmitted to people by mosquitos that have fed on blood from infected birds, has so far killed four California residents in 2025, including three in the San Joaquin Valley. In the Valley, West Nile deaths have been confirmed in Tulare, Fresno and...