
Five Squatters Die in Fire at Abandoned Fresno House
On Sunday, five squatters who pried open a window of an abandoned house in east-central Fresno, allegedly to do drugs, died when a fire broke out; a sixth was injured, the Fresno Bee reports.

On Sunday, five squatters who pried open a window of an abandoned house in east-central Fresno, allegedly to do drugs, died when a fire broke out; a sixth was injured, the Fresno Bee reports.

While employees and customers simply stood and watched, a 27-year-old woman allegedly attacked an elderly Vietnam veteran inside a Fresno AutoZone store.

The Early Assessment Program, supervised by the state Department of Education and California State University, estimates that a paltry 2% of Fresno Unified 11th-graders would succeed in college-level courses.

Two antiques shoppers got much more than they bargained for when a photo they picked up at a Fresno shop for a measly $2 turned out to be a one-of-a-kind picture of the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid.

Central San Joaquin Valley faith leaders and families, thrilled that Pope Francis will visit the United States next Tuesday, have launched celebrations in anticipation of the event.

A California man who rushed into his apartment to save a rack of barbecue ribs from a nearby fire gave an interview to a local news cameraman on the scene–and video of the interview has since gone viral.

A new video release from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) suggests that women did not always consent to the use of their aborted babies’ parts for sale.

On Monday, roughly 50 protesters, some of them smiling broadly as they stood in the middle of the street blocking traffic in downtown Fresno, shouted “Fresno is Ferguson!” and “Black lives matter!” to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Fresno’s Republican Mayor Ashley Swearengin delivered her annual State of the City address on Wednesday, accepting accolades for her role in leading the city out of socio-economic blight.

California’s four-year-long drought is forcing cities across the state to make tough choices about water conservation. Now, one city will be forced to make its toughest choice yet: cleaner air, or more drinkable water?

While Fresno County is suffering from high unemployment–11.6 percent in February 2015, and 12.0 percent in January 2015–Fresno workers have joined the Fight for $15, a national campaign to raise wages and set the minimum wage to $15.

Tuesday morning a man with previous a history of domestic violence walked into a pediatric office in Fresno and gunned down the mother of his five children and then shot himself minutes later killing both of them.

A non-profit organization aims to construct homeless communities using environmentally friendly structures to house homeless men and women.

Republican Mayor of Fresno Ashley Swearengin has decided against running for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Democratic firebrand Barbara Boxer in 2016.

The measles outbreak continues to spread in California and beyond, with a case confirmed Wednesday in Fresno County. Fresno health officials say the man visited the area recently and may have had contact with county residents in public locations, including an area medical center and its maternity ward, potentially exposing babies to the extremely contagious disease.