Fresno police auditor John Gliatta released his findings on Thursday regarding allegations of excessive force during a January 2019 gang raid arrest. The incident, including body camera footage that apparently shows an officer striking a 17-year old seven times, led to a federal lawsuit and has been cited in conversations...
Feds Say Yes to Veterans Boulevard's Final Piece of Funding
The final funding piece for a key roadway project in northwest Fresno, planned for decades, finally came through. The U.S. Dept. of Transportation awarded the Veterans Boulevard Project a $10.5 BUILD Grant on Wednesday for a project with an estimated total cost of $139 million. Listen to this article: ...
Finally, Veterans Boulevard Is Going Somewhere Big and Exciting
Thirty-five years after it was envisioned by Fresno planners, long-stalled Veterans Boulevard moved forward Tuesday morning with phase one of a plan that ultimately should ease some of the city's most congested traffic. This phase is modest: a new $5.5 million section of Bullard Avenue helping residents south of Herndon...
NW Fresno Traffic is a Horror Show. How Would Council Candidates Fix It?
In northwest Fresno, "traffic" is a dirty word. Decades of piecemeal planning and years of rapid growth have spawned long lines of vehicles on major avenues during rush hour. There's a release valve planned for the plugged-up traffic surrounding Shaw and Herndon avenues, but it's been on the drafting board...
With New High School, Central Unified Reaches for the Stars
Pick a word. Stunning. Exciting. Expensive. All apply to Central Unified's newest high school, which breaks ground Saturday morning at Ashlan and Grantland avenues and is expected to be ready for students in August 2021. The cost of the school's first phase is about $121 million. There will be three...
Brandau and Bredefeld Deserve to be Read the Riot Act
Can I just call in Jack Nicholson to give Steve Brandau and Garry Bredefeld the full "You Can't Handle the Truth" treatment? If anyone deserves a big-league butt-chewing from the fictional Col. Nathan Jessup, it's the north Fresno councilmen who find themselves buffeted by the city's newly liberal political winds....
Help Us, Trump! No State Gas Tax Aid for Veterans Boulevard
Advocates for building the Veterans Boulevard interchange in northwest Fresno have suffered a $23 million setback. Staff from the California Transportation Commission did not include the project among 27 proposals recommended for a total of $308.8 million in Senate Bill 1 funding Wednesday (April 25). “We are very disappointed. We thought...
$45 Million Makes Vets Blvd. a Reality
Traffic.  It’s what residents of northwest Fresno have had to deal at Herndon and Highway 99. About 250 residents attended a meeting Wednesday night about the Veterans Boulevard Project. The idea is extend Veterans Boulevard through a series of overpasses from Grantland to Herndon. It's a concept that's been bandied...