Meet Fresno City Councilman Henry Perea, candidate for the 31st Assembly District, 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Dinuba.

A Merced man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend's brother during a burglary will have to pay for his crime.

A Merced man was convicted Tuesday in the shooting death of a Dinuba man earlier this year.

A growing number of school districts in the Valley and around the country are reporting dramatic success with an English-immersion program developed by a Clovis educational consultant.

The segment from Strathmore to Jovista, near Delano, already has been approved for abandonment.

Gay marriage opponents pulled off another victory at the ballot box this week by using a tried-and-tested argument: Approve it and children will be taught homosexuality in school.

Another road project has the Tulare County Board of Supervisors flirting with declaring eminent domain for a number of parcels.

Homelessness in Visalia has become a much more visible problem with the St. Johns River encampment and other issues.

In 2008, the Visalia Police Department and Tulare County Probation Department formed a partnership establishing a probation officer position to be embedded with the Visalia Police Department's Special Enforcement Bureau.

Balance is the key as Ashtyn Atkinson, Jessica Runyon, Amanda Monge and Tiffany Diaz each average around six kills per match.

Here's a question for you: How many of you either work outside or have a job with a window that actually allows you to watch the out-of-doors? The answer, I suspect, is that aside from the dwindling number of local residents who farm, very few of us have much daily connection with the world of nature.

A Dinuba man and a Visalia man were sentenced to prison Tuesday in separate child-molestation cases.

Kings County investigators say they've recovered the remains of a Lemoore man who went missing more than a year ago.

Margaret Aslanian, 96, of Fresno died Tuesday. She was a homemaker. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Yost & Webb Funeral Home.

The amount of land being seized by the county to further widening Road 80 continues to grow.