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More than 200 Fresno-area residents captured during recent ICE raids
What's at stake? More than 200 people have been taken. More than 200 people have been detained since early October amid Fresno-area ICE raids, Nora Zaragoza-Yáñez, program manager at Faith in the Valley’s watc...
Nov 2, 2026Are they ICE agents, human traffickers or just punks? Fresno advocates still want a mask ban
As immigration enforcement continues across the Central Valley, Fresno advocates have reported an uptick in operations involving masked agents, or people impersonating agents, who lack identification.
Oct 30, 2026Political hit? Racial profiling? Routine Fresno traffic stop? Critics demand probe into candidate’s arrest
Calls are growing for an independent review of Naindeep Singh’s now-quashed arrest at the hands of Fresno police just days before the polls close in next week’s big midterm election.
Oct 29, 2026Tempers flare over Fresno council candidate’s arrest as City Hall leaders threaten to investigate each other
What's at stake? Fresno City Hall's chaos heats up in the wake of the bad arrest of a city council candidate. A city councilmember and the city attorney wagged fingers at each other Thursday in the wake of the...
Oct 29, 2026Fresno Police Chief apologizes to council candidate after negative drug test exonerates him from alleged DUI
Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto publicly apologized to city council candidate Naindeep Singh in a news conference late Tuesday where she announced the results of a drug test that exonerated Singh after he was a...
Oct 28, 2026Here’s what the Fresno Unified school board candidates have to say about school closures. Some refused to answer
What's at stake? As conversations surrounding school closures and potential strategies to mitigate them are beginning to take shape in Fresno Unified this school year, Fresnoland reached out to candidates looki...
Oct 27, 2026Fresno City Council candidate insists on innocence in ongoing investigation, while police remain tight lipped
In a brief news conference Monday, Naindeep Singh, a Fresno City Council candidate, insisted on what he believes will be his eventual “full exoneration” from two citations he received during a traffic stop over...
Oct 27, 2026Fresno City Council approves $1 million for legal defense fund for immigrants
What’s at stake? The council approved allocating a record amount of funds toward legal aid for immigrants in the city facing threats of deportation on Thursday, as well as a new designated zone for vendors in t...
Oct 23, 2026Tower District residents grill Fresno city leaders on police presence at tense town hall in wake of recent shooting
Fresno’s Tower District residents brought the heat to city leaders on Wednesday evening, raising questions about the city’s policing strategies as more police presence hasn’t stymied a string of violence on the Olive Avenue corridor.
Oct 22, 2026Fresno County approves Friant Ranch despite unanswered questions on water
What's at stake: A new town could run out of water in a drought -- and county supervisors voted yes anyways. A new town the size of Fowler was greenlit by the Fresno County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday — de...
Oct 21, 2026Fresno’s Measure D and Measure S: Two Taxes, Two Different Plans
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Oct 20, 2026Does Fresno County’s Friant Ranch new town have enough water to get through another big drought?
What's at stake? Friant Ranch is a billion-dollar new town proposal just south of the community of Friant, aiming to grow to the size of the city of Fowler. For three decades, developers have tried to build a ...
Oct 19, 2026