Enter the Warzone, back with a vengeance. – The only negative to hosting an event like the Tour of California is when the race goes elsewhere the following year, it’s easy for feelings to get hurt. So Visalia should be proud. And Clovis has good company in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara, cities the [...]

Movie director Ken Burns and PBS teamed up recently to peddle the six-episode idea that America’s national parks belong to all of us. While this populist sentiment is appealing, it is a bald-faced lie. The national parks — and Yosemite, in particular — primarily are the insular reserves of government bureaucrats and environmentalists. They are [...]

The Fresno County Coroner’s Office has identified a Fresno woman who died in a single-car accident Saturday northeast of Clovis. She was Savanha Rhodes, 20. The California Highway Patrol reported the woman lost control of her vehicle and it rolled about 1 p.m. near the intersection of Pittman Hill and Tollhouse roads. The CHP reported [...]

Victoria Ann DeSantiago was the little girl no one could forget. Her abduction, brutal rape and murder at the hands of a stranger in 1979 sent shock waves across the Valley. Parents and children were jolted from the comfort of their innocence. To many, Fresno no longer felt safe. Victoria was 8 when she, her [...]

Latest Bronco to ride: Add Kevin Schofield to a star-studded list of Dos Palos running backs. Schofield, a junior following the likes of Kenny James, Earl Austin, Rodney Davis and Dean Collins, has rushed for 895 yards and nine touchdowns in six games after being named the North Sequoia League Sophomore of the Year in [...]