Don Parreira, co-owner of Ultra Gro Plant Food in Madera, began his one-year term on July 1 as the new president of the Ag One Foundation at Fresno State. Parreira, of Fresno, previously served as vice president for Ag One — a development organization for the Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology at Fresno [...]

  FRESNO, Calif. – The United Soccer League (USL) has awarded a franchise to a Fresno investor group headed by local businessman Ray Beshoff. At a press conference earlier today at Chukchansi Park, USL President Jake Edwards officially presented Mr. Beshoff with the franchise for Fresno Football Club. Fresno will join Nashville SC and one more [...]

Fresno, California – July 25, 2017… The 2017 Fresno Food Expo, the nation’s largest exclusively regional food show, will take place on Wednesday, July 26 and Thursday, July 27. At this year’s Expo, 142 of Central California’s premier food and beverage companies will have the opportunity to connect with an expected 650 top level local, regional, [...]

According to a new survey of the San Joaquin Valley conducted by the Institute for Leadership and Public Policy at Fresno State, 58 percent of respondents support the construction of the high-speed rail project. There are clear differences across party lines. A significant majority of Democrats (74 percent) support construction of high-speed rail, along with [...]

Tickets to see JAY Z perform at the Save Mart Center are on sale. The rapper will perform on Wednesday, Nov. 1, in support of his new album “4:44.” This will be the rapper’s second time in Fresno. He performed a sold-out show at the Save Mart Center during his “Magna Carter Tour” in November 2009. The “4:44 Tour” will [...]

FRESNO, Calif. – The Fresno Grizzlies and their frequent alter-ego, the Fresno Tacos, have announced schedule updates for the organization’s Taco Truck Throwdown event. The 2017 edition, presented by La Tapatia, will be the seventh annual, and for the first time will be spread over two days and include a non game-day event at Chukchansi [...]

The seventh annual Fresno Food Expo is scheduled for July 26 and 27 at the Fresno Convention & Entertainment Center.  Applications for the fifth annual New Product Awards and third annual Fred Ruiz Entrepreneurial Award are still being accepted.  Winners will be announced during the official opening reception of the Expo on July 26. There [...]

The City of Fresno announced today that it will open the northern and southern “superblocks” of Fulton Street to traffic in late August with the grand re-opening and celebration of the entire Fulton Street Reconstruction Project set for Saturday, October 21, 2017. The northern super block is the section of Fulton Street that runs between [...]

Further demonstrating its position as the ‘category killer’ upscale select service brand, Hyatt today announced that it approved a total of 86 new Hyatt Place hotels to date. These new projects, which include the first new-build Hyatt Place hotels in Fresno California, New Mexico, Missouri and Ohio, bring the total number of new build Hyatt Place projects open and under development [...]

Bigger and better than ever before Taco Truck Throwdown is now a two-day festival with 40 taco trucks, #FresnoTacos baseball, World Taco Eating Championship, Official Chingo Bling comedy show and more. Presented by La Tapatia Tortilleria, Inc.. Did we mention that there will be $2 Tecates!?! July 28: http://bit.ly/TTT7Tix July 29: http://bit.ly/TTT7Day2 Invite your friends [...]

UC Merced recently joined the ranks of six other UCs and 70 other universities around the country when it was selected as the newest site for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Opens a New Window.program (NSF I-Corps). Now, with application deadlines looming, I-Corps is actively seeking its first cohort of campus-affiliated, STEM-focused entrepreneurs to participate in [...]

Engineering faculty from California community colleges are learning how to build drones and rockets as part of a project that runs daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday, July 14, at Fresno State’s Engineering East building (Room 223). The completed drones will fly from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 13, at Clovis Community [...]

The National Weather Service in Hanford has forecasted the temperature to be at, or above, 105°F in Fresno for Friday, July 7th through Sunday, July 9th, 2017.  Therefore the City of Fresno Parks, After School, Recreation and Community Services Department (PARCS) will be opening its cooling centers during this time. Cooling centers will be open [...]

Tune in Tuesday morning 7/11 at 9AM PST on AM 1680 The Answer for my new show ‘Business Leaders with Lance Cardoza’ . The guest will be Fresno Grizzlies General Manager Derek Franks #BusinessLeaders #AM1680Fresno #TalkRadio #LanceCardoza #Growlifornia #FresnoTacos www.my1680.com

New Fresno City Manager Wilma Quan-Schecter begins her post today, July 10, 2017, replacing Bruce Rudd, who is wrapping up 41 years of service to the City of Fresno. Mrs. Quan-Schecter is the first woman to hold the top administrative post at Fresno City Hall. Mrs. Quan-Schecter previously served as both assistant city manager and [...]

FRESNO, Calif. – The seventh Fresno Grizzlies homestand of the 2017 season, the franchise’s 20th, is scheduled for July 4 to July 8, with six games against the Salt Lake Bees (Los Angeles Angels) and Reno Aces (Arizona Diamondbacks). Tickets may be purchased at the Chukchansi Park box office, or anytime at FresnoGrizzlies.com. Here is [...]

Ruiz Foods Products, Inc., a Dinuba-based food manufacturing company, pledged $1 million to Fresno State to expand the University Business Center at the Craig School of Business. The gift will establish the “Ruiz Foods Executive Classrooms,” a state-of-the-art learning environment for students throughout the Craig School of Business. “This is a transformational gift for the [...]

The Fresno City Council has approved a new lease agreement with the Fresno Grizzlies baseball team for Chukchansi Park. The move could help clear the way for a new ownership group to take over the team. The new lease would have the owners pay the city $500,000 a year in rent, compared with roughly $750,000 [...]

FRESNO – Nominations are now being accepted for the “40 Under 40” with the Class of 2017. “40 Under 40” The Ultimate Networking Event for the last decade, presented by Business Street Online and coming to Fresno at BitWise South Stadium 700 Van Ness, Fresno, CA 93721 on Thursday, December 7, will bring together some [...]

FRESNO, CA – Mayor Lee Brand and Chairman Brian Pacheco will hold the first of many special joint meetings between the City of Fresno and the Fresno County Board of Supervisors, scheduled for Fresno City Hall tomorrow, May 30 at 1:30 p.m. The joint meeting, the first such gathering in recent history, will be chaired [...]