Gov. Brown Signs $15 Minimum Wage Into Law

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law Monday giving California the nation’s highest statewide minimum wage of $15 an hour by 2022. That and a similar effort in New York mark the most ambitious moves yet to close the national divide between rich and poor. Experts say other states may…MORE

Hanford Man Wanted On Terrorist Threats

HANFORD (KMJ) — Investigators are looking a nineteen year old man, seen fighting with another man in a Hanford home. It all happened close to the intersection of Hanford-Armona Road and 11th avenue, just south of the DMV office. Police say Andrez Nunez was in an altercation with family members, and was locked out of…MORE

CoBank Says Agriculture Faces Significant Global Challenges

  A new report by CoBank says oversupply and lower exports will continue to plague the U.S. agricultural industry for the remainder of 2016. The new Quarterly Rural Economic Review suggests those factors will result in a further, but modest decline in farm revenue for 2016. The increasing global inventory of commodities such as corn,…MORE

VIDEO: Dog Leads CHP On Bay Bridge Chase

SAN FRANCISCO (KMJ/AP) It was a Bay Area chase, that really went to the dogs. A Chihuahua is in animal custody after leading police on a chase across the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge. The CHP tweeted the small black dog “led us on quite a chase” on Sunday, and posted a video of it running…MORE

Two Teens Arrested For Aiming Guns at Fresno Drivers

(KMJ) – Fresno Police says its department received multiple calls early Sunday morning for reports of two people armed with rifles in the area of North Parkway and East Olive. Officers quickly converged on a large group gathered in that area.  As they did one of the subjects, a 15 year old male juvenile, ran. …MORE

Fresno Traffic Stop Turns Into Pursuit Down the 99

(KMJ) – A failed vehicle stop by Fresno Police turns into a  pursuit on Highway 99. Just before 8 a.m. Sunday, Officers tried to pull over what they considered a suspicious vehicle for a minor traffic violation near Parkway and Belmont.  But the driver, identified as Miguel Coronado, instead sped off and lead officers south…MORE

5% Water Allocation for West Side Farmers Called “Despicable”

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Many California farmers and other water customers expect to receive all of their requested deliveries this year from a vast system of canals and reservoirs run by the federal government, while others will likely receive a fraction as the state recovers from several years of drought, officials said Friday. Farms and…MORE

Not Guilty Plea For Pair Facing Hate Crime Allegations

FRESNO (KMJ) — The two people accused of attacking an elderly Sikh man at the end of last year, in what’s been described as a hate crime, were arraigned in Fresno County Superior Court on Friday. 17 year old Alexis Mendoza and 22 year old Daniel Wilson have been charged with multiple crimes, including felonies, relating…MORE

USDA Expects Major Acreage Increase in Corn Plantings

  U.S. corn growers expect to plant 93.6 million acres of corn this year, according to the Prospective Plantings report released by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. If the government prediction holds true, this season will mark the first increase in corn acres since 2012 and the third largest corn acreage since 1944. Driven by…MORE