A Fresno County judge on Friday denied prosecutors’ request to try a 17-year-old girl accused of being the getaway driver in the killing of Caleb Quick as an adult gvwire.com/2026/05/15/a...

Get Ready to Vote: View Candidate Forums for June 2 Primary gvwire.com/2026/05/15/g...

Until last month, California was poised to join nearly a dozen other states that ban cell phones in K-12 schools. gvwire.com/2026/05/15/b...

China has agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets, with a potential for the order to rise to as much as 750 planes. gvwire.com/2026/05/15/t...

A man was arrested Thursday after police said he attempted to steal a rental van from an Enterprise Rent-A-Car location in Visalia. gvwire.com/2026/05/15/v...

Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Friday, as inflation fears triggered by the Middle East conflict drove up Treasury yields and threatened to halt an AI-fueled rally. gvwire.com/2026/05/15/w...

President Donald Trump on Friday announced a new National Garden of American Heroes in the District of Columbia to help mark the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the United States in July. gvwire.com/2026/05/15/t...

Benjamin is a sweet, fluffy orange and white boy is looking for a calm, loving home. gvwire.com/2026/05/15/c...

The CEOs of Meta, Alphabet, TikTok and Snap have been invited back to Capitol Hill to answer questions from U.S. lawmakers about children’s online safety, according to a Senate aide. gvwire.com/2026/05/15/t...

A substitute teacher was arrested Wednesday after police said he physically grabbed a student at a middle school in Visalia. gvwire.com/2026/05/15/s...

Starbucks is laying off 300 U.S. corporate employees in its regional support offices as it seeks to return to “durable, profitable growth,” the company announced early Friday. gvwire.com/2026/05/15/s...

President Donald Trump on Friday suggested a Russian missile strike on a Kyiv apartment building that killed 24 people, including three children, could set back efforts to find a peaceful settlement to Moscow’s war in Ukraine. gvwire.com/2026/05/15/t...

Claude AI experienced a possible outage Thursday, according to Downdetector.com. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/c...

Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer said the next five years would likely be tight for the city budget. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/f...

Fresno County sheriff’s deputies seized 22 pounds of fentanyl in two separate Interstate 5 traffic stops over the past month, authorities said Thursday. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/f...

Kings Canyon Joint Unified School District, which serves Reedley, and Sanger Unified are receiving praise for accelerating student math skills. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/r...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the abortion pill to be prescribed through telemedicine and dispensed by mail, restoring for now a 2023 federal rule challenged by Republican-governed Louisiana that had made access to the medication easier. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/u...

The Defense Department has abruptly canceled the deployment of more than 4,000 troops to Poland, part of a realignment of American forces in Europe announced this month that has caught many military officials off guard. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/u...

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks abruptly resigned on Thursday, an agency spokesperson said, adding to turnover among top Trump administration immigration officials in recent months. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/u...

Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing further budget cuts and expanding the state’s reserves despite a recent surge in tax revenue — an attempt to balance the books in anticipation of a looming long-term deficit in the coming years, he said. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/n...

The Fresno Unified School Board voted to formally oppose the city of Fresno's Southeast Development Area plan in a 4-0-3 vote. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/f...

Former Newsom chief of staff Dana Williamson takes a plea deal in a federal corruption case that rocked Sacramento. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/e...

California Health Sciences University will honor its largest graduating class of new doctors and master’s students Sunday during its 2026 commencement and hooding ceremony at the Save Mart Center at Fresno State. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/c...

A Fresno County sheriff’s deputy was arrested this week on felony sexual assault and assault charges stemming from an alleged on-duty incident in Fresno. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/f...

A Fresno County sheriff’s deputy was arrested this week on felony sexual assault and assault charges stemming from an alleged on-duty incident in Fresno, the Fresno Police Department said. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/f...

One person was killed Wednesday night in a four-vehicle crash in Visalia that shut down part of Demaree Street, authorities said. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/v...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates separately carried out strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks conducted against them during the war in the Middle East, two current and one former senior U.S. officials said. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/s...

The U.S. House has passed legislation that would allow nationwide year‑round sales of gasoline containing 15% ethanol, handing a major win to biofuel producers and farm groups while raising concerns among refiners about higher compliance costs. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/u...

The Fresno Police Department will conduct a bicycle and pedestrian safety operation Saturday aimed at reducing dangerous driving behaviors that put people walking and biking at risk. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/f...

Another day, another slew of local campaign mailers. But Fresno City Council District 1 candidate Naindeep Singh’s stood out above the rest. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/t...

Erica Elizabeth Gonzales is wanted on a felony warrant of violation of possessing hard drugs gvwire.com/2026/05/14/v...

President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing has been cast by Chinese state media and commentators as a major diplomatic victory for China and a sign of its growing parity with the United States as a global power. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/c...

Two men were arrested Wednesday after Visalia police seized methamphetamine intended for sale and several firearms while serving a search warrant at a home, authorities said. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/v...

Oil prices dipped on Thursday after Iran’s state media said about 30 vessels had crossed the Strait of Hormuz in recent hours while the semi-official Fars news agency cited a source saying Iran had begun allowing transit for some Chinese vessels. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/o...

Israel plans to sue The New York Times and one of its journalists for defamation over an article that said Israeli soldiers, prison guards and settlers had used widespread sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/i...

Lebanon will demand Israel cease fire at face-to-face talks that began in Washington on Thursday, a senior Lebanese official said, as Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel continued to trade blows despite a U.S.-backed truce declared last month. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/l...

Slack, a messaging and communications platform, experienced a possible outage Thursday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. gvwire.com/2026/05/14/s...

A classified CIA assessment found Gulf allies divided over support for the Trump administration’s war against Iran, according to Capital & Empire. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/c...

Despite a third straight year of cuts, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer on Wednesday presented his record-setting “balanced” $2.55 billion budget, adding a new police unit, $1 billion in new construction projects, and $140 million in road repairs. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/d...

The Fresno Unified School Board has taken the next step to finalize district wide layoffs, eliminating hundreds of full-time equivalent positions to survive an ever-growing budget deficit. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/f...

Former Fresno County Superintendent of Schools Larry Powell says stronger schools and housing development can work together to improve communities and student performance. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/l...

The Trump administration will block new home healthcare and hospice providers from enrolling in Medicare for at least the next six months, according to a government statement posted on Wednesday, citing concerns about widespread fraud. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/u...

There is something deeply funny, and honestly kind of beautiful, about watching a room full of parents physically lean their bodies into turns during a Mario Kart race as if sheer willpower might help their kid avoid a banana peel. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/i...

In a Facebook video from last fall, Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist and housing activist running for Congress as a Democrat in Texas, warned about the Jews working with Christian Zionists trying to bring about the Rapture. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/d...

Three people were arrested Tuesday during a Visalia Police Department operation targeting bicycle thefts after officers used a bait bicycle to catch suspects attempting to steal it, authorities said. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/v...

Shortly after beginning his second stint as governor of California in 2011, Jerry Brown began promoting a two-pronged overhaul of how the state finances public schools. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/c...

More than 600 classic cars, hot rods, motorcycles, and big rigs are expected to roll into Old Town Clovis this weekend for the 6th Annual Old Town Motorama, a three-day event celebrating the Central Valley’s car culture. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/c...

Hunter Lee Mitchell is wanted on a felony warrant of violation of being a prohibited person owning or possessing ammo/firearms. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/v...

When Tesla announced an expansion of its robotaxis to Dallas and Houston last month, some investors touted momentum for CEO Elon Musk’s mission to transform the electric-vehicle maker into an AI-powered, driverless-tech giant. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/t...

A 53-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly threatening employees and damaging property inside a Visalia massage parlor, police said. gvwire.com/2026/05/13/v...