SOCCER: CCCAA NORTH REGIONAL Vitals: Fresno City will host men’s and women’s soccer games today in the CCCAA North Regional. The second-seeded men will play No. 10 Cañada at 2 p.m. The second-seeded women will meet No. 7 Foothill at 11 a.m. Also, in the men’s, No. 9 West Hills-Lemoore (11-6-2) will visit No. 1 [...]

Southbound Willow Avenue traffic will be diverted to a northbound lane between Powers and Teague avenues from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. starting today. Work also will be done on a traffic signal at the intersection of Willow and Teague avenues. The light will be flashing red while Lasar Construction undertakes street work for AT&T. [...]

A Clovis police officer who was shot three years ago by suspects in an attempted bank robbery was the same officer who fired on two men during a vehicle pursuit last week after the driver tried to run him over. An investigation by the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office showed that the pursuit, which began at [...]

A broken transformer caused a brief power outage early Sunday evening for 1700 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers in Clovis, PG&E spokeswoman Brandi Ehlers said. Around 5 p.m. the power went out for customers in an area bounded by Herndon, Fowler and Academy avenues. By 6:30 p.m., PG&E had reduced the outage to only [...]

Picking a side in a debate that could split the GOP, gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has come out in favor of the $11 billion water bond that lawmakers recently placed on the November 2010 ballot. Whitman initially gave a cautious response to the bond, but her press secretary told The Bee this week that the [...]

Emma Andrews was back, so was Fresno State’s perimeter shooting and there wasn’t anything Saint Mary’s could do about it Sunday at the Save Mart Center. The Bulldogs’ 5-foot-5 Australian junior guard tied a career high with 16 points and hit three of the team’s 13 3-pointers to pace a 94-81 victory over the Gaels [...]