Category Archives: Local News

With $175M Unrestricted, FUSD Still Proposes Layoffs - Staff Call Foul
Fresno Unified employees are sounding the alarm over proposed district layoffs, warning that the cuts would make schools less safe, less clean, and less supportive for students. Educators and classifi...
Gabe Navarro Mar 25, 2026

Newsom Walks Back Israel 'Apartheid State' Comment
(KMJ) Governor Gavin Newsom is walking back controversial comments he made earlier this month, when he referred to Israel as an "apartheid state." In a new interview with Politico, published Tuesday, ...
Blake Taylor Mar 25, 2026

Social Media Addiction: KMJ Team Coverage
The world of social media was rocked this week after two groundbreaking trials found Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube liable for targeting kids through addictive design features. The KMJ team cov...
Blake Taylor Mar 25, 2026

Lawmakers Seek Fertilizer Cost Transparency
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced a bill that would require mandatory price reporting of fertilizer. Bloomberg says the move is a bid for more market information after the war in I...
Don York Mar 25, 2026 fotokostic / Depositphotos.com

Update: Driver ID'd in Deadly 3-Car Crash, Alcohol Suspected
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KMJ) -- The driver suspected of causing a deadly 3-car crash in Fresno County Wednesday morning has been identified as Nathan Lopez. Investigators say the 24-year old Reedley ma...
Blake Taylor Mar 25, 2026 maxym / Depositphotos.com

Raisin City Schools Employee Arrested
(KMJ) An employee of the Raisin City School District has been arrested on felony charges of annoying a child and lewd and lascivious acts with a minor. 49-year-old Carlos Rivas was taken into custody ...
Blake Taylor Mar 25, 2026

25-year-old Los Banos Woman Shot and Killed in Hanford Identified
HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Los Banos woman has been identified in an early morning homicide in Hanford. Authorities have identified her as 25-year-old Sully Elizabeth CortezNeri. The shooting happene...
Liz Kern Mar 24, 2026

12 Arrested in Online Child Predator Sting out of Merced
MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Twelve men are now sitting in a cell instead of behind a screen. They're suspected of trying to arrange contact with potential victims online who they thought were children. "...
Liz Kern Mar 24, 2026

USDA Promotes "Product of USA" Voluntary Labeling
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins just announced details of a new national public awareness campaign to inform meat, poultry, and egg producers about the "Product of USA" voluntary label...
Don York Mar 24, 2026 ZemunDesign / Depositphotos.com

The Ag Center - Commodity Report for Tuesday, March 24th
Don York Mar 24, 2026
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Daily Buzz Question 4.2.26
Pres. Donald Trump says the Iran War will end ‘shortly’. How confident are you it will?
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