LOS ANGELES (AP) – California restaurants that managed to survive the pandemic are facing a new crisis: finding workers. With the economy officially reopened, owners are eager to fill dining rooms to full capacity but can’t find enough cooks, food servers or kitchen staffers to do the job. As a result, restaurants are being forced…… MORE
(Photo courtesy: Visalia Police Department) (KMJ) – A South Valley woman is now behind bars after she reportedly stole an ambulance, leading police of a chase through Visalia. Officers in that city responded to a call around 3:38 p.m. Monday near the 700 block of East Noble to assist an emergency medical crew. But while…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) — A shooting took place around 2:12 a.m. Sunday on Delno Ave., near McKinley and Fruit Avenues in Fresno. According to Fresno Police, officers responded after a shot spotter activation went off but found no one at the scene. Police say they got word a short time later that three gunshot victims…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno police are asking for help finding a missing 67-year-old man. Fresno Police say Charlie Vang is from Del Rey but was last seen around 11:30 pm on Sunday, June 13 in Fresno. He was attending a funeral service on Chestnut Avenue, by McKinley Ave. Family called police to file…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) — A woman was taken to the hospital in critical condition after she was hit by a car Friday afternoon in Fresno. Fresno police say the woman in her 20s or 30s was hit in or near a crosswalk in the area Elm and California Avenues in South Fresno around 4:00…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) — A 10-year-old boy was killed by a driver that did not stop or even slow down Thursday night according to Fresno police. Police got the call at 10:30 p.m at Friant and Ft. Washington Avenues in Northeast Fresno. When officers arrived they found the boy, identified as Angel Hernandez, lying in…… MORE
Water in a key California reservoir will fall so low this summer that its hydroelectric power plant will be forced to shut down for the first time, officials said Thursday, straining the state’s already-taxed electric grid. An unrelenting drought and record heat have pushed the water supply at Northern California’s Lake Oroville to deplete to “alarming levels,” which will…… MORE
California legislators are lobbying for a $300 million plan to help hydrogen fuel play a larger role in the state’s economy. The news comes to light after a bipartisan group of lawmakers wrote a letter to assembly leaders asking that $300 million of a $500 million executive order on emission reductions be set aside for hydrogen…… MORE
With millions of Californians set to experience a heat wave in the coming days, the operator of the state’s power grid issued an alert that called for residents to conserve electricity on Thursday. The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) issued a statewide Flex Alert, urging people to cut back their electricity use from 5 p.m. PT to…… MORE
(Photo courtesy: CA Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control) (KMJ) – The state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control says all alcohol sales will cease for the next 45-days at a market in Parlier. Here are the details as shared by the ABC: On June 16, 2021, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) posted a…… MORE
