FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Californians can now report acts of hate through a phone number and a website. Governor Gavin Newsom’s office says the state is sending an unequivocal message that hate will not be tolerated here in California. The website CAvsHate is a direct response to increased hate, especially against people of Asian, Asian…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Big Tech companies such as Google and Meta might soon have to pay media outlets for posting and using their news content under a proposed California measure attempting to save local journalism. The bill, which cleared an important Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday with bipartisan support, would require Google and Meta…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A Fresno pastor with deep ties to the community is in critical condition after he fell last week. The family of Pastor H. Spees says he fell on Wednesday, while in Florida, and suffered a head injury His family has flown to be with him. Spees is currently in a Level…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — New big rigs and buses that run on diesel would not be sold in California starting in 2036, according to new rules approved by state regulators Friday to wean the state off fossil fuels and combat climate change. The rule would tackle pollution from heavy trucks used to transport goods through…… MORE
FIREBAUGH, Calif. (KMJ) –A woman is sentenced in the killing of a 20-year-old in Firebaugh back in 2019. On Thursday, September 26, Tyrel Truss drove to Mendota to meet a woman he had been communicating with on the internet. Alexa Ramos who was 20 at the time and was from Firebaugh spoke online with Truss…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s corrections agency routinely refers inmates who appear to be “foreign-born” to federal immigration authorities even if they are U.S. citizens and lawful residents, with some improperly detained by the government for weeks after their sentences, said a lawsuit filed in state court Thursday. The lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties…… MORE
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Much of the famed valley at California’s Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting Friday due to a forecast of flooding as rising temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada’s massive snowpack. Park officials said Tuesday that the eastern section of Yosemite Valley will stay shut at least until May…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, CA (KMJ) – On Thursday morning, Assembly Democrats held a special hearing of the Assembly Public Safety Committee to hear fentanyl bills that they refused to hear previously. Hundreds of Californians are dying every month by counterfeit drugs laced with the deadly drug. There were seven bipartisan bills read that would have imposed consequences…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Every day, locomotives pull rail cars filled with food, lumber, oil and other products through railyards near neighborhoods in Oakland, Commerce, San Bernadino and other California cities. They run on diesel, a more powerful fuel than gasoline, and burning all that diesel produces pollution that is harmful for people who live…… MORE
(KMJ) – Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. The City of Fresno raised the Armenian flag at City Hall in honor of the day It was 108 years ago, on April 24th, in 1915, that the Ottoman empire, now known as Turkey began rounding up Armenian political and cultural leaders. One and a half million…… MORE
