Fresno

Bob Wills revolutionized country music in the 1930s by mixing jazz and string band influences. Like many of his fans in Oklahoma and Texas, he moved to Central California in the 1940s.

Spicy but flavorful, the Fresno chile was first developed in Clovis.

Fresno properties served as the prototypes for two pioneering Las Vegas resorts, and two of Sin City's most influential tycoons were born and raised in Fresno.

Exactly who the auditorium should memorialize was controversial when the building was planned in the 1930s.

There are a lot of different places that claim to mark California's north/south divide.

Eastwood devised the hydroelectric system of dams and powerhouses that gave us Huntington and Shaver Lakes, and helped transform Southern California.

The river we know today as the San Joaquin has had many names over the years.

Highway 99 passes through most of the Central Valley's major cities, while Interstate 5 bypasses them. Why is that?

In the 1890's sugar magnate Claus Spreckels funded a railroad from Stockton to Bakersfield that broke the Southern Pacific's transportation monopoly in the region.

Victor Gruen invented the suburban American shopping mall. He tried to reinvent Fresno.