☀️ Good morning! Today is Friday, June 7. Danielle, here. We almost broke a heat record yesterday – the recorded high of 107 tied a 121-year-old record, according to the National Weather Service in Hanford. The excessive heat warning remains in place until 8:00 p.m. tonight.
💃🏽 There’s always a lot going on downtown, and this evening is no exception – from a live drag show, Big Diva Energy, at Full Circle, to a screening of The Breakfast Club at the Crest Theatre, a Prince tribute at Saint J, or reggaeton dance night at Mezcal. Downtown Fresno Partnership
Councilmember pushes to fund eviction protection, form full unit combatting wage theft
Councilmember Tyler Maxwell on Thursday motioned to fund the Eviction Protection Program in next year’s city budget and establish a full unit to combat wage theft in Fresno. Both matters, which are handled by the City Attorney’s Office, were not included in Mayor Jerry Dyer’s budget proposal for the 2025 […]
Fresno police chief under investigation over allegation of ‘inappropriate off-duty relationship’
The City of Fresno is investigating Police Chief Paco Balderrama over an allegation he had an “inappropriate off-duty relationship” with a non-city employee, according to a Thursday evening news release. Back in February, Balderrama alerted Mayor Jerry Dyer and City Manager Georgeanne White of a potential allegation surfacing. City officials […]
New details reported in Fresno’s $600k phishing scam. ‘High probability’ it could happen again?
Fresno finance department employees failed to follow loosely established safeguards that would have prevented a more than $600,000 internet phishing scam in 2020. That was the conclusion the Fresno County Grand Jury reached in a new report out this week that gives city residents the first detailed account of the […]
