The Clovis City Council introduced new rules Monday for its 6-year-old medical marijuana ordinance that would make it more difficult to grow the crop indoors. The city already bans outdoor marijuana gardens, dispensaries and patient-to-patient sales. And if it could, Clovis would be the first city in California to have an outright ban on the [...]

Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in north Fresno was partially negligent for failing to tell one of its patients that he had a dangerous staph infection, a Fresno County Superior Court jury ruled Tuesday. The untreated infection left 27-year-old Dusten Chevalier a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, said Fresno [...]

Three area hospitals will have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties for having too many Medicare patients return to the hospital within a month of being discharged. The penalties, part of the federal Affordable Care Act, are designed to encourage hospitals to reduce readmissions, which cost taxpayers an estimated $17 billion a [...]

An elderly woman is the first person in Fresno County this year to die of complications from West Nile virus, health officials said Tuesday. It is the second West Nile-related death in California in 2012. An 88-year-old woman from Kern County died earlier this year. The Fresno County woman had been hospitalized before her death, [...]

Bouncing higher and higher on a trampoline, Breanna Bond reached out, touched her toes and flashed her mother a grin almost as wide as her outstretched arms. The midair move marked another fitness milestone for the 10-year-old Clovis girl, who seven months ago weighed 186 pounds and was so out of shape she struggled when [...]

Fresh Healthy Vending, the company that revolutionized the vending machine sector, announces a new franchisee in Sanger, California. Ross and Colleen Horn, Mike and Narda Spencer, and Darrick and Amy DeGraw have purchased the healthy vending franchise and are in the process of selecting locations where each machine will be placed. With limited opportunities available, [...]