Category Archives: Local News

(Photos courtesy: Merced County Sheriff’s Office) (KMJ) – The Merced County Sheriff’s Office says its Deputies located and took down a massive marijuana cultivation and processing si...

(Photo Courtesy: Fresno Police Department) (KMJ) – Fresno Police credit a security guard with thwarting an attempted bank robbery in Downtown Fresno. Officers say 45-year old Richard Martinez wa...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) – Pacific Gas & Electric confessed Tuesday to killing 84 people in a devastating Northern California wildfire. The dramatic court hearing was also punctuated by a ...

(Photo courtesy: Cal Fire SLO) (KMJ)- All lanes of Highway 101 are open as a fast-moving wildfire continues to burn on the Central Coast. The Avila fire closed the highway and threatened dozens of hom...

  (KMJ) – A man accused of being the rapist and killer who terrorized California residents in the 1970s and 1980s has agreed to plead guilty in return for being spared the death penalty. A ...

(KMJ) – The Supreme Court rules that a landmark civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in employment. And, in doing so, gives a resounding victory for ...

Photo: TCSO   PORTERVILLE, CA (KMJ) – Tulare County Sheriffs deputies respond to a deadly shooting in Porterville. Just after 1:00 pm on Monday, Deputies were called to 500 block of E. Rive...

Sept. 11, 2018, Tony Thurmond, Superintendent of Public Instruction in Sacramento, CA. FILE Photo: AP/Rich Pedroncelli   SACRAMENTO-State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announ...

(KMJ) – Hundreds gather outside the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office Sunday to remember a Deputy Sergeant killed in a weekend ambush. 38-year-old Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Sergea...

(photo courtesy: Tulare County Sheriff’s Office) (KMJ) – The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office sends kudos to one of its canine deputies after he makes a major drug find during a recent...