Coca-Cola to shut down California plant after 114 years
After more than a century, Ventura is set to lose one of its oldest businesses. Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling announced…
The secretive world of California’s desert auto testing grounds
In the desert outskirts of California City, around 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, cars wrapped in black…
Fire crews find 2 bodies in underground vault in downtown Fresno
A fire near an overpass in downtown Fresno led crews to a grim discovery of two bodies in…
A Calif. downtown disappears one landmark at a time
The call came in just after 4 a.m. on what would turn out to be a triple-digit midsummer…
Fresno man gets prison time for $4.8M livestock feed scheme
A Central Valley businessman siphoned off millions of dollars’ worth of livestock feed ingredients, moving them through a…
Largest state park expansion in decades spotlights Central Valley
The San Joaquin River Parkway is a pocket of nature near Fresno and the site of a newly…
Shocking video shows shark chasing California man at sea
A Santa Barbara man lives to tell the tale after a shark stalked him miles away from the…
California big game hunter killed by elephants in Africa
A California man was killed by a herd of elephants during a hunting trip in Africa, his family…
Rare tornado outbreak touches down in California
An exceptionally strong storm system swept through the Central Valley this week, bringing with it a rare weather…
2 tech CEOs admit to stealing millions, scheme is still unraveling
In 2024, the CEOs of the failed Fresno tech company Bitwise Industries admitted to stealing over $100 million…
2 SF engineers quietly built a cannabis company with $1B in revenue
Inside a nondescript Central Valley building, tucked between irrigation canals and orchards, sits what is probably the greatest…
Calif. rattlesnake bites hiker amid ‘massive increase’ in run-ins
FILE: A captured rattlesnake squirms in snake tongs on March 24, 2026. MediaNews Group/Getty Images First responders rushed to…