FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno Unified School Board Member Terrence Slatic and a 15-Year-old Bullard High School student will not be facing any criminal charges, after an altercation on campus. The Fresno County District Attorney’s Office made the announcement in a press release on Friday, Feb. 15, that it will not being filing charges…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) — The ribbon has been cut on a realigned Fresno section of Highway 99. The $290m project moved the road approximately 100 feet to the west to create room for high speed rail. Construction started on the section of road between Clinton and Ashlan at the end of 2015. The realignment work also…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, CA (KMJ) – Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Xavier Becerra announce they intend to take action – including suing over President Trump’s national emergency declaration. Speaking Friday morning at the California State Capitol, Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the U.S. border with Mexico is not a…… MORE
EL PASO, TX (KMJ) – For some, valentines day is not all wine and roses. Not everyone likes their ex – but here’s some tasty revenge. In Texas, the El Paso Zoo will name a cockroach after your ex, then feed it to a meerkat on Feb. 14. The zoo’s “Quit Bugging Me” event…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The man behind the store Patrick James in Fresno’s Fig Garden Village has died. Patrick James Mon Pere passed away peacefully at home on Monday, February 11, 2019. Mon Pere was born in Fresno in 1931, he later graduated from Fresno High School and went on to military service in…… MORE
PARADISE, CA (KMJ) – Governor Gavin Newsom visited Paradise to help communities that were impacted by wildfires. The Governor signed Assembly Bill 73 to provide emergency funding to local governments rocked by recent deadly California wildfires. This is the second bill Newsom is signing as the state’s new governor, to back-fill local property…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — 2018 was the worst year since the Great Recession for media companies in the U.S. According to new figures from Challenger, Gray and Christmas, media companies planned to cut nearly 15,500 jobs. Nearly 12,000 of those were in news organizations. Job cuts in the industry were up 281 percent from 2017.…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A U.S. judge who has berated Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for its role in California wildfires is demanding more answers from the utility. In a court filing Thursday, Judge William Alsup asked PG&E if it was in compliance with a state law requiring it to clear vegetation around electric lines…… MORE
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SACRAMENTO (KMJ) — After his announcement this week plans to scale down the High Speed Rail Project, President Donald Trump demanded on Twitter that the federal dollars being used to pay for it be returned. The original plan was to create a high-speed link from San Francisco to Los Angeles. But in his State of…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state’s consumers should get a piece of the billions of dollars that technology companies make off the personal data they collect. The new governor provided no details about the so-called data dividend that he mentioned in his State of the State address Tuesday. The Democrat…… MORE
