Category Archives: KMJ Top Stories

Discovery Center Youth Garden Festival & Grand Opening

Discovery Center Youth Garden Festival & Grand Opening

The October Fall Festival called “A Night at the Museum” is taking place tonight at the Discovery Center. Families can visit the museum and kids will get a pumpkin between 5:00pm AND 6:00pm while they last. There’s a costume contest , scary stories, trunk or treat and more… The proceeds are going to the museum…MORE

Friday Phil Performs At Ahwahnee Middle School

Friday Phil Performs At Ahwahnee Middle School

The Friday Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating its 35th year of educating and entertaining Fresno Unified elementary students. To mark the milestone, the Friday Phil performed at a Fresno Unified middle school for the first time in its history, with Ahwahnee Middle School selected for this special event. The Friday Phil — made up of current…MORE

Paralympic Athlete Inspires Storey Middle School Students

Paralympic Athlete Inspires Storey Middle School Students

Jeff Fabry is a Paralympic gold medalist in archery. He was the special guest for Storey Elementary’s Character Counts! rally, today. The rally is an annual tradition at Storey, featuring students in T-shirts representing the colors of the character pillars, cheers, games and an inspirational guest. Fabry shared how he overcame the effects of a…MORE

Rising Star DeChambeau Talks Golf This Weekend in Madera

Rising Star DeChambeau Talks Golf This Weekend in Madera

(KMJ) – You have a chance to watch one of the rising stars of the PGA talk golf in the Valley this weekend. Clovis Native and 2015 NCAA and U.S. Amateur champion Bryson DeChambeau will hold a meet and greet, as well as a golf demonstration Saturday at Dragonfly Golf Club in Madera. The 21-year…MORE

Livingston Set To Be Invaded By Zombie Run

Livingston Set To Be Invaded By Zombie Run

LIVINGSTON (KMJ) — Zombies and runners are invading the City of Livingston this weekend. It’s not the plot-line of a local horror movie – the “Fear the Dead” 5k Zombie Run is actually taking place this Sunday and participants have to enter either as a human or a zombie. “So they’ll run through the town…MORE

Fresno Police Officer Arrested

Fresno Police Officer Arrested

(KMJ) – A Fresno Police Officer has been nabbed by special agents from the California Department of Justice. Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer issued the following statement on Thursday: “Fresno Police Officer Jesse Ruelas was arrested at his home in Clovis, by California Department of Justice Special Agents, as the result of a search warrant…MORE

Fresno Moves to One Day Per Week Water Schedule

Fresno Moves to One Day Per Week Water Schedule

(KMJ) – New water rules are coming to the city of Fresno. And they arrive a full one month earlier than expected. Thursday Councilmembers approved moving Fresno’s water customers to a once-a-week irrigation rule. The change which impacts residential, commercial and industrial customers will begin on November first. That is one month earlier than previously…MORE

Monster Hurricane Patricia Barrels Into Mexico

Monster Hurricane Patricia Barrels Into Mexico

(CNN) – With 200-mph sustained winds and even more powerful gusts, Hurricane Patricia was the strongest hurricane ever recorded by the U.S. National Hurricane Center as it bore down Friday on Mexico’s Pacific coast. The Miami-based meteorological center, in its 8 a.m. advisory, warned of a “potentially catastrophic landfall in southwestern Mexico” later Friday. While…MORE

Pooch Parade & Canine Carnival In Tower

Whitie’s Pets Pooch Parade takes place this Saturday, and the event will include a parade, canine carnival, costume contest, and vendor fair. Residents of Fresno are encouraged to dress up their dog in a costume, enter in the contest, and parade their dressed up dog in the Tower District, Saturday, October 24, 2015, 1 p.m. to 5…MORE

Ryan Declares Candidacy

Ryan Declares Candidacy

By Deirdre Walsh and Jeremy Diamond CNN Rep. Paul Ryan announced Thursday that he is officially running for speaker of the House, and he is likely to be elected next week. “I never thought I’d be speaker,” Ryan said in a statement. “But I pledged to you that if I could be a unifying figure,…MORE