Strong winds pushed through the Valley on Monday, causing power outages affecting thousands of utility customers. Winds from the cold front blowing out of the Northwest gusted to 33 mph through the Fresno-Clovis area, said meteorologist Jim Bagnall of the National Weather Service in Hanford. The strongest winds were reported in Kettleman City with gusts [...]

The World War II Battle of the Kasserine Pass was not a particularly good one for the combined American and British forces — or for Edmund D’Arcy-Clarke. The Allies were trying to hold the mountainous pass in the North African country of Tunisia, but they fell to German forces commanded by the famed Field Marshal [...]

The secret’s out. Now in its sixth year, the Big Sandy Point to Point Mountain Bike Race no longer can be considered a locals-only event. Not when riders from the Central Coast and Sacramento sweep the top placings at the annual knobby tire celebration that starts at the San Joaquin River Gorge Management Area outside [...]

A 19-year-old man was killed and two other people wounded early Saturday morning when shots were fired at a party in Fairmead, the Madera County Sheriff’s Office reported. Deputies did not release the name of the dead man. One of the injured was expected to recover, the deputies said. The condition of the third victim [...]

U.S. Olympic track and field standout Lolo Jones’ Easter message at a Clovis megachurch — that it’s important to rely on God’s strength in tough times — was drawn from her life. Favored to win the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Jones clipped the ninth hurdle in the finals [...]

Evictions that turned violent and sometimes deadly in the last year prompted the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office to work with the California Apartment Association to make the process safer. The two offices worked with Fresno attorney Steve Hrdlicka to revise the “letter of instruction” that landlords are required to fill out for an eviction to [...]