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☀️ Good morning! It’s Friday the 13th! This is Rob. Fresno’s slow walk into fall continues today with an expected high of around 91, with temperatures sinking to the mid-80s over the weekend before sliding into the high 70s early next week. The National Weather Service calls for a “slight chance” of rain (I remember rain!) on Monday.
🎉 Fresno residents are invited to Fiestas Patrias 2024 beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, with a parade followed at 12:30 p.m. by a festival on Fulton Street.
🚓 Santa Cruz city leaders approved a new law this week in connection with a recent controversy involving the Hanford Police Department, KVPR reported. The new city ordinance makes it a crime to drop off unhoused residents in the city without first coordinating with Santa Cruz leaders. The issue emerged earlier this year when Hanford police officers dropped off an unhoused woman at a Santa Cruz shelter.
‘Where the hell can we go?’ Fresno’s unhoused residents brace for arrests ahead of new laws
Rabbit and his neighbors woke up early on a recent September morning, knowing they probably wouldn’t be sleeping in the same place that night. The notice a week earlier said the City of Fresno would clear the homeless encampment, and that police and sanitation workers would toss out anything left […]
Fresno OKs new liquor license for longtime business owner despite some objections
The Fresno City Council weighed in on a controversial alcohol license application and a study that could influence the future of industrial truck routes in south central Fresno, among other business at a lengthy meeting Thursday. Councilmembers voted 6-1 to approve a liquor license for Circle “D” Food & Liquor […]
‘I won’t let them drink the water.’ The California towns where clean drinking water is out of reach
In a major milestone, state regulators announced in July that nearly a million more Californians now have safe drinking water than five years ago. But across the state, the problem remains severe: More than 735,000 people are still served by the nearly 400 water systems that fail to meet state […]
