SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California lawmakers have approved a sprawling bill meant to shore up the state’s major electric utilities in the face of another wildfire season. The biggest power companies will have to spend billions of dollars on safety improvements under the bill lawmakers sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday. The measure would…… MORE
(KMJ) – 10-month old Fayth Percy was shot in the head on June 24th in Central Fresno after a man fired several times into a car allegedly targeting her mother. Wednesday, Fresno Police released this photo along with an update on her recovery. Fayth is no longer in critical condition and her family says they…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) – Vice President Mike Pence flew in for a fundraising lunch benefiting President Trump’s reelection campaign at Harris Ranch in Coalinga. Then he spoke at the Freitas family farm, just outside Lemoore. Pence spoke to a crowd of hundreds to rally support for the Trump Administration’s USMCA, the renegotiated trade deal with Mexico…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — The California Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee approved Assembly Bill 5 on Wednesday. The controversial measure calls for reclassifying thousands of independent contractors as employees. Outside the California State Capitol, a rally was held, in which Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon claimed that independent contracting amounts to “corporations trying to oppress workers.”…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) – It was originally believed there was no loss of life caused by last week’s major earthquakes, but that may have changed. Authorities say the July Fourth temblor in the Southern California desert may have killed a man – in Nevada. Tuesday, sheriff’s deputies in Nye county discovered the body of a 56-year-old…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) – A state bill that includes keeping federal environmental laws in place, even if the federal government changes those laws, is raising concerns. The assembly Judiciary Committee approved SB-1 on Tuesday. It’s a bill authored by Senator Toni Atkins of San Diego, who spoke about it earlier this year. “SB-1 is California’s insurance…… MORE
(KMJ) – If your travel plans take you on Highway 41 through Lemoore, you should prepare for delays and detours Wednesday afternoon. Vice President Mike Pence will discuss the USMCA at a Lemoore farm that can been seen from Highway 41. So that is prompting the closure of the highway during his visit. if you’re…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — The second child of Sherri Telnas, the Porterville woman charged with drowning her sons, has passed away. The Tulare County Coroner’s Office says the official cause of death for Telnas’ 7-year-old boy is “fresh water drowning.” Telnas faces life in prison for drowning him and her now-deceased 12-year-old son, in an irrigation…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) – Fresno police are looking for help in catching whoever is responsible for a shooting that left a small child hospitalized. Detectives are investigating a drive-by shooting that wounded a five-year-old boy while he was sitting in the backseat of his mother’s car. Officers were called to the area of North winery and…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) – A bill to limit emergency room bills for patients with health insurance faces a key vote amid strong opposition from hospitals. The bill by assemblyman David Chiu would make sure patients in emergency rooms with health insurance never pay more than their copayments or deductibles, even if they are treated at a…… MORE
