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 [...]

One phone call changed his plans. One shot changed a whole lot more for Derek Ernst. Six days after the Clovis East High graduate received a call that he was in the Wells Fargo Championship as the fourth alternate, the 22-year-old rookie found himself one shot out of the lead and 192 yards away from [...]

A dry winter forced farmers in the Westlands Water District to run their wells far more last summer than they usually would. The underground water table dropped a staggering 48 feet. After another dry winter in California, Westlands farmers this summer will pump even more water, probably enough to fill 80% of Millerton Lake. Even [...]

Miranda Rae Mayo always knew she wanted to act. That’s why as soon as she graduated from Roosevelt High School, the Clovis native packed her bags and moved in with a cousin in Riverside. When pressured to start taking some college classes, Mayo made a bet with her cousin: She would get an agent, manager [...]

The buzz has begun for the 100th Clovis Rodeo in 2014. “It will be a blowout like never before here,” veteran public address announcer Wayne Brooks trumpeted Sunday near the close of the 99th event. A five-day ticket sales window for next year’s rodeo opens today — an unprecedented advance move by rodeo officials. Sheena [...]

Investigators with the Contractors State License Board hit the jackpot of sorts, catching a man on Nevada’s Most Wanted illegal contracting list and a registered sex offender among the 17 suspects cited during sting operations in Coarsegold. State board employees worked with the Madera County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies on April 18 and April [...]