FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — The snow season is off to a slow start at China Peak, but that won’t keep the slopes from opening this weekend. Skiers know it’s still early to hit the mountain slopes, but China Peak Resort has snowmaking machines working overtime to prepare for opening weekend. “We haven’t had any…… MORE
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Madera Co. Woman Missing, Burned Car Found
MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) — The Madera County Sheriff’s Office is looking for 19-year-old Melanie Stephanie Rios Camacho. Investigators said she left her job at Auto Zone around 10:15 on Friday night. Camacho told her mother she was going to a friend’s house after work. Detectives have uncovered that Camacho told her friend and coworkers she…… MORE
Tulare County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Porterville shooting
PORTERVILLE, Just after 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, TCSO Deputies were called to a shooting in a vineyard near Avenue 152 and Road 200, just west of Porterville, where field workers were harvesting grapes. When they arrived, Deputies learned a man in a gray Honda drove up and began firing toward an empty canal, about 100 yards…… MORE
Progress? FTA, FUSD Appear to Make Progress to Avoid Strike
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Negotiations are continuing into Monday evening as Fresno Unified teachers and administrators work to avoid a strike that’s scheduled to start Wednesday. On Monday, Fresno Unified and the Fresno Teachers Association announced that negotiators have spent several hours over the past couple of days trying to reach a contract agreement. In a…… MORE
Feds: Missing Hells Angels Were Cremated in Fresno
Was a local biker gang destroying evidence of murders by utilizing the services of a Fresno funeral home? It certainly appears so. Federal prosecutors say at least four missing Hells Angels were illegally cremated in a funeral home in downtown Fresno. According to documents filed in court, 54-year-old Fresno Hells Angel Merl Hefferman was involved…… MORE
McCarthy Ousted as Speaker in Historic Vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and threw the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. McCarthy’s chief rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, forced the vote on the “motion…… MORE
Homicide Investigation Underway in Madera County
MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) — The Madera County Sheriff’s Office is now investigating a suspicious death in the area of La Vina as a homicide. Just after 9 a.m. Sunday, the Madera County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a dead adult male at a migrant labor community on Avenue 9 and Road 24. Deputies…… MORE
City of Fresno Shows Drop in Unhoused Population, Expands Mobile Shower Services
FRESNO, CA – Mayor Jerry Dyer is happy to announce that the City of Fresno is expanding its mobile shower services for our unhoused residents. Starting Tuesday, August 15, 2023, a second mobile shower unit is now active and providing the unhoused community with free showers and restroom services. The shower units are funded by…… MORE
DNA Identifies Suspect In Murder Committed Nearly 30 Years Ago In Fresno County
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KMJ) — A DNA sample collected from a murder victim nearly 30 years ago has identified her suspected killer. The naked body of 31-year-old Bernice Wright, a.k.a. Vi, was discovered in a vineyard near Orange and Manning Avenues in Fresno County in October of 1993. The cold case was reviewed in 2021…… MORE
Punishment Or Prevention: California Debates Fentanyl Crisis
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Pamela Smith remembers vividly the last time she saw her only son alive. It was 3:18 a.m. on July 3, 2016, in Fresno, California, and 22-year-old Jackson Smith was lying motionless on a table in an emergency room while a nurse performed chest compressions. Earlier that night, he had taken an…… MORE
