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Two anti-Donald Trump protesters, one of whom is an East Side Bulldog gang member, are facing multiple felony charges for assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest during a May 27 demonstration outside a Trump rally in Fresno.

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump told an audience in Fresno on Friday: “There is no drought.”

Los Angeles Times columnist Robin Abcarian visited the Donald Trump rally in Fresno last Friday, and reported that she found Latinos who actually support the Republican candidate.

Scenes of mayhem outside Donald Trump’s two California rallies held Friday, May 27th, 2016.

Despite growing anticipation that Donald Trump will take his presidential campaign to the Central Valley, he will not visit Fresno, the region’s de facto capital, when he attends the California Republican Party meeting in Burlingame, in the Bay Area, this weekend.

Donald Trump’s resounding, poll-beating victory in the New York primary sets a clear precedent for the California primary: he is going to compete in the rural areas that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has dominated in the caucus states thus far in 2016.

Trump’s strongest support comes from Californians who feel ignored by the system and betrayed by the GOP. They no longer have faith in political parties or ideological movements.

A California gang member with a number of unusual face tattoos is back behind bars after a routine traffic stop ultimately ended in his arrest on drug and firearm possession charges.

For the first time in decades, the presidential primary in California — on both sides — may profoundly affect the presidential race, boosting turnout and prompting a ripple effect that could change the nature of local races around the state.

Anaheim’s shiny new transit center, ARTIC, has become an illustration of the problems with California’s bloated $68 billion high-speed rail plan.

Fresno police arrested an “aggressive panhandler” in West Fresno, and found he was quite successful at his job: he had $1,800 on his person.

On Thursday, The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO), the Fresno Police Department, and the Clovis Police Department, using search warrants, discovered an underground gun range at a private home in Southwest Fresno.

On Sunday, five squatters who pried open a window of an abandoned house in east-central Fresno, allegedly to do drugs, died when a fire broke out; a sixth was injured, the Fresno Bee reports.

While employees and customers simply stood and watched, a 27-year-old woman allegedly attacked an elderly Vietnam veteran inside a Fresno AutoZone store.

The Early Assessment Program, supervised by the state Department of Education and California State University, estimates that a paltry 2% of Fresno Unified 11th-graders would succeed in college-level courses.

Two antiques shoppers got much more than they bargained for when a photo they picked up at a Fresno shop for a measly $2 turned out to be a one-of-a-kind picture of the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid.

Central San Joaquin Valley faith leaders and families, thrilled that Pope Francis will visit the United States next Tuesday, have launched celebrations in anticipation of the event.

A California man who rushed into his apartment to save a rack of barbecue ribs from a nearby fire gave an interview to a local news cameraman on the scene–and video of the interview has since gone viral.

A new video release from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) suggests that women did not always consent to the use of their aborted babies’ parts for sale.

On Monday, roughly 50 protesters, some of them smiling broadly as they stood in the middle of the street blocking traffic in downtown Fresno, shouted “Fresno is Ferguson!” and “Black lives matter!” to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Fresno’s Republican Mayor Ashley Swearengin delivered her annual State of the City address on Wednesday, accepting accolades for her role in leading the city out of socio-economic blight.

California’s four-year-long drought is forcing cities across the state to make tough choices about water conservation. Now, one city will be forced to make its toughest choice yet: cleaner air, or more drinkable water?

While Fresno County is suffering from high unemployment–11.6 percent in February 2015, and 12.0 percent in January 2015–Fresno workers have joined the Fight for $15, a national campaign to raise wages and set the minimum wage to $15.

Tuesday morning a man with previous a history of domestic violence walked into a pediatric office in Fresno and gunned down the mother of his five children and then shot himself minutes later killing both of them.

A non-profit organization aims to construct homeless communities using environmentally friendly structures to house homeless men and women.

Republican Mayor of Fresno Ashley Swearengin has decided against running for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Democratic firebrand Barbara Boxer in 2016.

The measles outbreak continues to spread in California and beyond, with a case confirmed Wednesday in Fresno County. Fresno health officials say the man visited the area recently and may have had contact with county residents in public locations, including an area medical center and its maternity ward, potentially exposing babies to the extremely contagious disease.