Fig Garden

This road is an unusual break from Fresno's street grid or right angles, but there's a story behind its design.

A flood in 1938 led the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a massive flood control basin northeast of Clovis.

The planned Fig Garden Dam on the San Joaquin River would have made Fresno's Woodward Park lakefront property.

No one knows if it will survive long enough to see another year of the holiday celebration. However, thanks to the efforts of everyone from homeowners to tree scientists, the history and legacy of the “First Tree'' is poised to live on.

Writer Mark Arax has been working to uncover some of the forgotten history that explains how many neighborhoods in Fresno were established. What he…

A few weeks ago we brought you a report about how rare maps are shedding new light on the history of racial discrimination in Fresno. In the 1930’s many…