Fresno

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

This ornate landmark in downtown Fresno has been vacant for around 50 years.

It’s one of two competing measures that would renew a half-cent sales tax in order to fund transportation projects throughout the county.

Homicides in California surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, killings are down to historic lows in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and many other cities including Fresno.

Four teachers founded Fresno's Hedgerow Vineyard, and in 1878 were among the first to pack and ship raisins from Fresno.

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

The Pacific Southwest Building was intended to be unsurpassed by any bank building on the West Coast.

In the span of 50 years, Fresno went from a ramshackle frontier town to hosting a hi-rise designed to rival any other banking building on the West Coast.

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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.