Will Fresno County voters see any transportation taxes on the November ballot?
The front-running group in the scramble to replace Fresno County’s 40-year transportation sales tax doesn’t have the numbers they need yet to qualify for the November ballot. But backers insist the fight isn’t over. The “Better Roads, Safe Streets” campaign learned this week that they didn’t meet the needed benchmark to qualify for the ballot…
Fresno greenlights $5 million for San Joaquin River trail extension west of Highway 41
Fresno is very close to building a trail extension to connect Woodward Park to the Palm Avenue GB3. The Fresno City Council on Thursday authorized an application for $5.1 million in state climate-bond money toward a long-planned extension of the Lewis S. Eaton Trail into the River West area along the San Joaquin River. The…
After four decades, Fresno gets a state park. Here’s what it means for the San Joaquin River Parkway.
After four decades of piecing the San Joaquin River Parkway together parcel by parcel, the state is preparing to hand six of its properties — 874 acres in all — to California State Parks, giving the long-stalled greenway its first permanent institutional landlord. The new San Joaquin River Parkway State Park is one of three…
How a Fresno judge shut down landmark environmental suit against Caltrans’ Highway 99 expansion
On the coast of Monterey in the early 1990s, residents of Carmel-by-the-Sea went to federal court to stop Caltrans from building a freeway through Hatton Canyon, a stretch of wetlands and rare Monterey pines just east of town. Caltrans’ plan called for a new bridge over the Carmel River, two new interchanges, and a widening…
Fresno law firm dodges $10,000 fine, says use of AI do not meet its standards
A law firm representing the City of Fresno will not have to pay a $10,000 fine after a Fresno County judge found 11 fake and improper case citations in one of its court filings. In an April 14 tentative ruling, Fresno County Superior Court Judge Kristi Culver Kapetan wrote that she wouldn’t subject Aleshire &…
Mayor Dyer pressured Fresno Unified trustees not to oppose SEDA. It worked.
Mayor Jerry Dyer wants to unleash a new Clovis in southeast Fresno — and text messages obtained by Fresnoland show he personally pressured the Fresno Unified school board to stay quiet about what it could cost the district. Hours before the board voted to shelve a resolution opposing the 9,000-acre Southeast Development Area (SEDA) plan…
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