Fresh & Easy neighborhood grocery stores moved one step closer to opening with the announcement Friday that four Valley stores will open by mid-January. The Lemoore store, at the corner of Lemoore Avenue and Cinnamon Drive, is scheduled to open first, on Dec. 2. Three more stores are scheduled to open Jan. 13: the downtown [...]

The solar-energy industry is turning into one of the bright spots in an otherwise gloomy central San Joaquin Valley economy. Solar companies are expanding rapidly, adding jobs and creating opportunities for people laid off from construction and farm jobs. Economic development officials think solar and other forms of alternative energy are well-suited for the central [...]

By Tracy Liu   What do you really know about poverty? Did you know that global hunger affects 923 million people? That is bigger than the population of the United States, Canada, and the European Union combined! Did you also know that 60% of those people are women? What about that each year, an estimated [...]

Clovis West High isn’t turning in its volleyball uniforms today because, somehow, the Golden Eagles found something more after delivering 70 minutes of excellence Tuesday night. What they did to open the night at home against the perennial state power Torrey Pines-San Diego was astonishing — a 6-0 lead and a 25-20 win in set [...]

Five days after delivering their “A” game on the Central Section’s biggest stage — the Division I championship — Clovis West will attempt to post an even better grade, if that’s possible, in a CIF State Southern Regional at home at 5 tonight against Torrey Pines-San Diego. “I’m very confident — if we play like [...]

Bullard High is not only unbeaten, it’s healthy. Edison’s not sure. “We’re 100%, so there shouldn’t be any alibis,” coach Donnie Arax said of second-seeded Bullard (10-0), which will play No. 7 Clovis West (5-5) in a Central Section Division I quarterfinal at 7 p.m. Friday at McLane. It was only four weeks ago that [...]