A Fresno bakery owner who orchestrated a years-long food stamp trafficking operation has been sentenced to three years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced Monday. Jorge Luis Rivera, ...

The CEO of a Los Angeles homeless services charity faces federal and state fraud charges after prosecutors said he lived a luxury lifestyle that included lavish vacations and designer clothes paid for ...

U.S. stock indexes ticked higher Monday, while other markets made louder moves, including another record-breaking rush for the price of gold. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% and won back its losses from last ...

Aiming to shake up the Golden State's media landscape, the California Post launched on Monday with a new tabloid newspaper and news site that brings a brash, cheeky and conservative-friendly fixture o ...

Nitricity, a California startup with Stanford roots and Fresno State field trials, is scaling up its effort to transform the fertilizer industry. The company has broken ground on its first full-scale ...

California farmers who grow fruit for canned products suffered a major setback last week as Del Monte Foods announced plans to close its only remaining cannery in the state. The Walnut Creek-based com ...

Popular Fresno restaurant Cracked Pepper Bistro is expanding its menu to feature a breakfast café model built around specialty coffee from local roasters and a new, brunch-centered menu. Chef Vatche ...

Longtime Fresno-based franchise operator JEM Management is closing Wendy's and KFC locations across the Central Valley, part of a broader contraction sweeping the fast-food industry as companies ...

A pair of touring comedians from different generations lit up Downtown Fresno last night, drawing nightlife crowds and brisk business for local restaurants. It’s not often you have such high-profile c ...

A new Visalia-based company believes technology can help support a local journalism industry that has been grappling with the loss of advertising revenue, thinning newsroom resources and a tough ...

U.S. military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday as the Trump administration continues its efforts to take control of the South American ...

Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, a top FBI fugitive accused of moving some 60 tons of cocaine from Latin America into the United States annually and orchestrating several killings, wa ...