Fresno County

Firefighters and National Guard units early Tuesday airlifted close to 100 people trapped by the Creek Fire in Fresno County and were sending more helicopters to save dozens of others, according to California National Guard.

A close-knit Hmong community was in shock after gunmen burst into a California backyard gathering and shot 10 men, killing four. “We are right now just trying to figure out what to do, what are the next steps. How do we heal, how do we know what’s going on,” said Bobby Bliatout, a community leader. Sunday evening’s attack killed Xy...

A 34-year-old vineyard worker left behind everything when he fled the flames that consumed his apartment in Santa Rosa, California, last month. With no warning of the approaching blaze he had time to grab only his wallet before driving his wife, her son and her granddaughter to safety at 1 a.m. Afterward, a friend offered the family a room short-term...

Employers can legally pay women less than men for the same work based on differences in the workers’ previous salaries, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower-court ruling that said pay differences based exclusively on prior salaries were discriminatory under the federal Equal Pay Act. That’s because women’s...

The suspect in this week’s racially motivated shooting rampage in Fresno entered a courtroom early Friday shouting that natural disasters striking America will increase.

A traffic stop in the San Joaquin Valley Monday led to the arrest of a gang member and also helped police uncover a cache of firearms

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. investigators were at the scene Saturday of a natural gas pipeline blast at a sheriff’s gun range, as four of the 11 people injured in the explosion were released from the hospital.

Hundreds of chickens were killed after burglars broke into a Foster Farms facility in Caruthers, California, investigators said.