FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — The majority of reservoirs in the State Water Project and federal Central Valley Project are approaching maximum capacity, following the recent storms. Shasta, Oroville, Trinity Lake, Folsom, Don Pedro, San Luis and Pine Flat are all well above average for this time of year. The latter two are seeing large volumes of…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — The lawsuit accuses Eric Bauman of groping and harassing former Communications Director John Vigna and party activist Spencer Dayton. It also alleges that Bauman discriminated against former Democratic Party Operations Director Tina McKinnor because she is black. The lawsuit is the third filed since January alleging misconduct by Bauman, who resigned in…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — California Inspector General’s Office says a flagship prison medical facility built to improve the state’s substandard care, is itself providing poor treatment. A newly-released report gives an “inadequate” rating to the correctional health care facility in Stockton. The state spent $820 million to build the 6-year-old facility, which holds nearly 3,000 inmates,…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — Refinery issues are being blame for a 14 cent weekly increase, in the average price for a gallon of fuel in the Golden State. AAA says California’s now averaging $3.54 a gallon, following the temporary closure of the Valero refinery in Benicia. Other issues were reported at a Phillips 66 refinery down in…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — A federal jury has awarded the family of 45-year-old Casimero “Shane” Casillas $4.75 million, after he was shot by Fresno police in September 2015. Civil rights attorney Bill Schmidt tells KMJ News: Casillas was shot three times, after an officer said he feared for his life, because Casillas was about to…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — The California Supreme Court has upheld former Gov. Jerry Brown’s rollback of a retirement benefit, that allowed public workers to pad their pensions. At issue in the decision was a provision of a 2012 pension reform law, which eliminated the ability of public workers to pay for more years of service, for…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — A federal judge is demanding that the Golden State pay $399,000 to 3 pro-life pregnancy centers and a law firm, after the Supreme Court deemed a state law promoting abortion unconstitutional. The law had required that “crisis pregnancy centers” offer information about how to obtain a tax-payer funded abortion. Centers who didn’t…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — 2018 was the worst year since the Great Recession for media companies in the U.S. According to new figures from Challenger, Gray and Christmas, media companies planned to cut nearly 15,500 jobs. Nearly 12,000 of those were in news organizations. Job cuts in the industry were up 281 percent from 2017.…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — A very wet winter is greatly reducing drought conditions in the Golden State. The U.S. Drought Monitor reports that more than 34 percent of the state, including the Sierra Nevada, much of the Central Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area, is free of any significant dryness. The monitor says heavy…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — Mendota has been ranked the worst city in which to live in the U.S., according to a new 24/7 Wall Street report. The city is home to the smallest share of college graduates, a 49.5 percent poverty rate, and low home values. Other valley cities listed as the nation’s worst include…… MORE
