Category Archives: Local News

Teen Smoking Rate Hasn’t Changed Much

Teen Smoking Rate Hasn’t Changed Much

Aaron Abeytia Aaron Abeytia anchors afternoon newscasts on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ. Read More…       Listen to the report as aired on News/Talk 580 AM & 105.9 FM KMJ FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — Tobacco use among middle and high school students hasn’t changed much in the past 5 years. According to the FDA’s Center for…MORE

Free Entry To Yosemite For ‘National Park Week’

Free Entry To Yosemite For ‘National Park Week’

FRESNO (KMJ) — A celebration of national heritage is taking place right across the country and right here in the valley. Yosemite National Park, alongside every other National Park in the country, is taking park in ‘National Park Week’. It starts Saturday April 16th. “It’s our centennial year, so 100th anniversary of the National Parks…MORE

Deputies Continue to Investigate Body Found In Fresno County Canal

Deputies Continue to Investigate Body Found In Fresno County Canal

(KMJ) – Two farmer workers made the discovery Just before 3:00 pm Thursday.  The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office says that’s when Deputies were called in regarding a body found in a canal.  Deputies responded to the area of Barstow and Floyd, which is north of Biola, and found the body a middle-aged Hispanic man lying in a…MORE

Fresno Man Arrested In Clovis Stabbing

Fresno Man Arrested In Clovis Stabbing

(KMJ) – Thursday night around 8:50 p.m.,  Clovis Police were called to a disturbance at Peach and Shaw.  Witnesses there told officers a woman had been stabbed.  and that the suspect had ran away through the neighborhood.  Clovis Police say the victim who had been stabbed multiple times in the back but was alert and…MORE

Porterville Man Grateful To Life Saving Game Warden

Porterville Man Grateful To Life Saving Game Warden

A Porterville man is grateful for a game warden – who saved his granddaughter, and her mother during the Valley Fire. The fire was raging, and Bob Phillips says his 18-month old granddaughter Jessie was with her mother in their home behind the fire line. “They were just oblivious to what was going on.” –…MORE

Valley Teens Developing Energy Saving Ideas To Win Money

Valley Teens Developing Energy Saving Ideas To Win Money

CLOVIS (KMJ) — Teams of High School students have been developing ideas on how to help reduce energy use, as part of a competition set up by ‘Junior Achievement’. The program invited teenagers from Clovis, Fresno, Kingsburg, and Fowler schools, to pose them the question ‘how do you create a business or program that will…MORE

Majority of Calif. Voters Say U.S. is Headed in Wrong Direction

Aaron Abeytia Aaron Abeytia anchors afternoon newscasts on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ. Read More…       Listen to the report as aired on News/Talk 580 AM & 105.9 FM KMJ FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — 60 percent of voters in the Golden State feel the country is moving in the wrong direction. The latest Field poll shows…MORE

Calif. Investing in More Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Calif. Investing in More Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Aaron Abeytia Aaron Abeytia anchors afternoon newscasts on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ. Read More…       Listen to the report as aired on News/Talk 580 AM & 105.9 FM KMJ FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — Allowing drivers of electric cars to travel from San Diego to the Oregon border. The California Energy Commission has approved nearly $9…MORE

Atwater Student Stabs Another – Investigators Working Out Why

Atwater Student Stabs Another – Investigators Working Out Why

ATWATER (KMJ) — Investigators say they currently have no idea why a teenager stabbed a fellow student in a north valley school. The incident took place at Atwater High, which is in the City of Atwater itself, Wednesday morning. Police say two students between the ages of 15 and 16 appear to be involved, with…MORE