Category Archives: Local News

(KMJ) More than 2,000 pot plants have been seized in a series of raids by Madera County deputies in Oakhurst, O’Neals and Coarsegold. Sheriffs officials say agents seized 579 marijuana plants fr...

After more than one fossil hunting death at nearby Hang Glider Hill, the director of a Bakersfield fossil museum is warning people that the land is unstable — not to mention private property. KB...

A Fresno man already facing a death sentence for a sexual assault and murder conviction involving a Fresno girl in 1985 goes on trial for another rape next month. The Fresno Bee reports that a Fresno ...

Fresno Unified is celebrating a rise in the number of students graduating.Fresno Unified Superintendent, Michael Hanson credits the hard work by teachers, parents and students and recommendations the ...

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FRESNO (KMJ) — The Central Valley Honor Flight has left Fresno Yosemite International Airport – bound for Washington D.C.There were 68 veterans on board – from 27 hometowns with Fres...

Students at a local college got a rude awakening Sunday after Corinthian Colleges announced it will be closing all of its remaining 28 campuses, displacing 16,000 students. Heald College in Fresno inf...

California is sending a team of 57 urban search and rescue workers to Nepal to find people buried under rubble after Saturday’s massive earthquake. Officials say the team left Los Angeles Sunday...

  Broken bottles, rusted cans and jagged pieces of metal now cover Lake Tahoe’s drought-plagued shores. KOLO-TV of Reno reports that Lake Tahoe’s water levels are a full six feet belo...

  A purse found on a Northern California man helped link him to what police are calling a “Mrs. Doubtfire” robbery. Brandon Alfred Calantoc is in custody in connection with the April ...