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Sam Farrar, 76, far left, gets a close look at Bill Bryant’s dark green 1930 Model A Ford Deluxe Coupe outside the Chicken Pie Shop in Fresno’ s Tower District in this file photo.<\/p>\n
ERIC PAUL ZAMORA<\/p>\n
Fresno Bee file<\/p>\n
Wednesday brought a wet shift to the central San Joaquin Valley, with the season\u2019s first measurable rain triggering a multi-vehicle crash in Clovis and setting the stage for a busy news day. Fresno City Council is also weighing a new push to revive long-vacant Tower District buildings. Here are the top stories of the day.<\/p>\n
Here are key takeawaysThree vehicles involved in crash at Clovis intersection during rainstorm: Three cars collided around 11:15 a.m. at Barstow and Armstrong avenues during a rainstorm and area power outage that had knocked out traffic signals, Clovis police spokesperson Ty Wood said<\/a>. One driver suffered minor injuries, and everyone remained on scene and cooperated. DUI is not suspected, and the cause remains under investigation.Fresno gets first rain since early June as \u2018wet season\u2019 begins with thunderstorms: Fresno Yosemite International Airport had recorded 0.6 inches of rain by early Wednesday afternoon, marking the city\u2019s first official rainfall since June 1, according to McClatchy meteorologist Sean Macaday<\/a>. Sanger saw similar totals, while Clovis recorded about 0.2 inches. Another half-inch \u2014 possibly double that \u2014 is expected through Thursday. Fresno has received just 57% of its usual annual rainfall in 2026.Fresno failed to fill vacant Tower District buildings. It\u2019s trying again: A revamped Vacant Commercial Building Pilot Program goes before Fresno City Council on Thursday after the original 2025 ordinance cited just two or three of nine buildings<\/a> included in the program, all of which remained vacant. The new version leans on the Tower District Specific Plan, requiring interiors to meet maintenance standards within 120 days and bi-monthly code inspections. Tower Neighborhood Association board member Steve Wilburn said the update finally \u201cmoves the situation forward.\u201d The group is also hosting Fern Fest on Saturday as part of its \u201cVibrant not Vacant\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n Original stories by Nick Fenley and Joshua Tehee.<\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n This story was originally published October 22, 2026 at 5:25 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Farrar, 76, far left, gets a close look at Bill Bryant’s dark green 1930 Model A Ford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-507802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}