Fresno County News

California Highway Patrol officers are investigating a traffic accident in which one person reportedly died this morning near Orange Cove.

The 10-year-old Huron girl who died Wednesday in a drowning incident at the community's Chestnut Park Public Pool, was identified this morning as Janet Ramirez.

It was suppose to be a simple procedure at Saint Agnes Hospital, but a local family claims they lost their loved one to a nasty infection.

Prosecutors say there is insufficient evidence to charge two volunteer firefighters who were held on suspicion of arson.

Times are good for wheat farmers, but they should resist the urge to harvest their crop residue and sell it for ethanol production, a federal researcher says.

Chanting "agua, agua, agua," busloads of farm workers joined Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Capitol today to demand that lawmakers spend state money on dams and canals to ease a growing water crisis.

More than 41,000 marijuana plants, with an estimated street value of $168 million, were destroyed after they were found in several gardens in rugged terrain in Sierra National Forest, a Fresno County sheriff's ...

The Fresno County Coroner's Office this morning made public the name of the woman killed Tuesday morning when a car she was in collided with a van on Highway 145 south of Kerman.

Midas shops employees from the Central Valley all the way up to the Bay Area are being accused of charging customers for repair work that wasn't needed and in some cases wasn't even done.

Two members of the Laton Volunteer Fire Department have been arrested in connection with over 30 fires in Fresno and Kings counties, including a fire early this month that destroyed the Kings Country Club just ...

The man who died when a tractor he was operating flipped on top of him in Sanger has been identified as Mark Johnson, according to the Fresno County Coroners Office.

The good news for 46,500 Fresno County homeowners is that their property tax bills are now a lot less.

A man stabbed to death in southwest Fresno on Saturday night has been identified as Rene Colin, 35, of Fresno, the Fresno County Coroner's Office said this morning.

California labor department and education officials want to help educate the state's migrant farmworkers to protect themselves from the heat.

There's not much left of the Kings Country Club clubhouse building that burned down July 7 in a suspected case of arson.

California's Department of Education released Wednesday the newest data available for high school dropout rates.

State labor officials are investigating if high heat caused the death of a farmworker in Kingsburg last week in what could be the fourth heat-related death in the fields this summer.

A man shot Wednesday in the parking lot of Denny's restaurant in north Fresno died this morning at Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno police reported.

Former Fresno County sheriff's detective Ron Vaughn Jr. was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison on child pornography charges.

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