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Every summer, a prestigious international music festival invites students from universities around the world to perform. And for the first time ever, some of those students will hail from Fresno. KVPR’s Samantha Rangel talks with us about an ambitious group of clarinet players getting ready for an upcoming performance in South Korea. Plus, the latest news headlines: Results have been certified in a recall of Avenal’s city leaders; and sentencing for a crime spree near Yosemite National Park.

Since 1924, the City of Fresno has run this rustic camp in the Sierra National Forest, east of Fresno.

The city of Dos Palos in Merced County is scrambling to resolve a fiscal crisis. Over a period of seven years, the city misspent $2.2 million generated by the city’s transportation tax, Measure V. We speak to Merced FOCUS editor Brianna Vaccari about efforts to repay the money and how taxpayers could be affected.

Today all that remains of the schoolhouse is a red brick archway at Shephard and Minnewawa Avenues in Clovis. The building was destroyed in a fire in 1990.

Funded by FDR's Public Works Administration, the Fresno County Hall of Records opened in 1937. Today it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The building was a big break from tradition for civic buildings in America. It got national attention when it was new, including in an exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

This Mexican-era land grant along the Kings River is an important chapter in the history of the Central Valley.

California U.S. Senator Adam Schiff anticipates a growing crisis in food aid, following deep federal cuts in the Republican megabill known as HR1. He speaks about the impact on food banks during a Fresno visit and how the Democratic party will navigate a divided Congress. Plus, the latest news headlines: Thousands of San Joaquin Valley residents cast their mail-in ballots; plus a major operation busts a Valley crime network.

Francis Eisen's first raisin crop came by accident, after a heat wave left his Muscat grapes dried on the vine in 1877.

This neighborhood in Southeast Fresno was home many of Fresno's agricultural pioneers.