MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (AP) — Future rebuilding efforts after the hundreds of millions of dollars in destruction caused by a wildfire burning north of San Francisco will be an opportunity to improve poor, sparsely populated Lake County, California officials said. “We can and we will make this better. I’ve seen it time and time again, disaster…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) — The big tourist season is now over, and Yosemite National Park is bearing the brunt of the many people who came to visit and left their trash there. Every year rangers set up what’s called the ‘Annual Facelift’, which is their call to the public to help collect all the debris that’s…… MORE
Mental Health Issues need to be taken seriously rather than stigmatized – that’s idea behind the Fresno County Board of Supervisors approval of a plan to address the mental health of those “doing time” Fresno County Supervisors voted to approve the Mental Health Services Act – a 3-year plan at over $160-million dollars to help…… MORE
Hanford police are looking for a robber who struck during lunchtime, Tuesday, September 22nd. Hanford police officers responded to the alleyway near Fifth and Douty Streets. where a man told officers he was returning to work around 12:45, and was approached by a Hispanic man holding a knife in the alley. He handed it over…… MORE
Joshua DuBois, former Special Assistant to President Obama, and Vatican journalist Marco Politi talk to Christiane Amanpour about Pope Francis’ U.S. visit.… MORE
President Obama and the First Lady greet Pope Francis on his first visit to the White House.… MORE
PG&E Grows Solar with $25,000 Grant to GRID Alternatives Central Valley. Through their 10-year partnership, PG&E and Grid Alternatives are hosting a job fair at Manchester Center, bringing together 16 companies from the local solar industry, with more than 180 job opportunities to Central Valley residents. The Job fair runs Wednesday, September 23rd, until…… MORE
The baseball world loses a legend with the passing of Yogi Berra on Tuesday, September 23rd. Berra spent almost all of his 19-year career with the New York Yankees and was a three-time Most Valuable Player and 10-time World Series champion.… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first pope from the Americas is ready to elevate to sainthood an 18th-century missionary who brought Catholicism to California. Pope Francis planned to canonize Junipero Serra during a Mass on Wednesday outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, the first canonization on U.S. soil. The…… MORE
A nature photographer is fighting a legal battle with Wikipedia over a selfie taken by a monkey that has gone viral.… MORE
