Two burgeoning golf stars from Clovis East High have made it through local qualifying for the U.S. Open. Derek Ernst — who a week ago earned his first PGA Tour victory at the Wells Fargo Championship — punched his ticket for sectional qualifying with a 70 at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas on Monday. In [...]

The Hmong past met its future at Sacramento International Airport Terminal B this weekend when Chai Ying Moua, a confident man in gold-rimmed glasses and a brown fedora, and his wife Maivang Her got off the tram. The couple from Laos were swarmed and bathed in tears of joy Sunday night by two dozen long-lost [...]

Jenna Prandini, in the highlight of her young college career, won the 100-meter dash and scored in two other events while helping power Oregon to the Pac-12 women’s track and field championship over the weekend at USC’s Locker Stadium and Cromwell Field. And Alyssa Monteverde assisted as well. Prandini, a redshirt freshman from Clovis High [...]

Sprouts Farmers Market will open its first grocery store in the Fresno-Clovis area at 7 a.m. Wednesday, May 15. The store is at 7477 N. Blackstone Ave., in the same shopping center as Bed Bath & Beyond. Sprouts has an emphasis on affordable natural and organic fruit and veggies and makes its produce the focus [...]

Buchanan and El Diamante Highs, as expected Saturday, landed the top baseball and softball seeds for the Central Section Division I playoffs. While El Diamante (28-1-1) of the West Yosemite League had long been virtually assured the No. 1 billing in softball, Buchanan took the dramatic route. The Bears (25-5-1) not only defeated Clovis North [...]

Seedings held to form in the singles bracket of the North Area individual tennis championships Saturday, led by top-seeded Viran Batth of Bullard High. Batth — who a year ago as a freshman reached the Central Section quarterfinals as a No. 10 seed — won 6-0, 6-0 and 6-0, 6-3 in his two matches. The [...]