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Scenes from the first day of both the Hmong New Year at Calwa Park and the Hmong International New Year at the Fresno Fairgrounds. (video: Eric Paul Zamora)

Fresno Hmong New Year celebrations begin with call for ancestral blessings (video)

Hmong New Year festivities began Friday at two Fresno celebrations.

Sports

With the Golden State Warriors on top of the NBA, Stephen Curry is quickly becoming one of the league’s brightest stars.

David White: Enjoy the ride, Warriors fans

Fans of the Golden State Warriors are enjoying this dream season. Maybe this is too good to be true? But even if it is, so what? Their NBA-best start to the season beats anything else the Warriors have sold the past, oh, 40 years. How about we all...

Living & Entertainment

Michael Harris, background, co-chair of the California Black Agricultural Working Group in Stockton, gives a Kwanzaa workshop at the Fresno County Public Library in downtown Fresno earlier in December.

Central San Joaquin Valley ministries, institutions celebrate Kwanzaa in creative ways

Ministries and institutions in the central San Joaquin Valley are coming up with creative ways to celebrate the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa.

Business

Gov. Jerry Brown

Sick leave, labor contractors dominate 2015 business planning

Among the major changes in business-related state law for 2015 are paid sick leave for all California workers and increased liability for employers that contract for their labor.

State

This photo provided by the Fort Bragg Advocate-News shows Mendocino High School girls basketball wearing the "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts before a recent game. A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing protests over police killings of unarmed black men after a school was disinvited because of concerns its players would wear T-shirts printed with the words "I Can't Breathe" during warmups. The athletic director at Fort Bragg High School informed his counterpart at Mendocino High School this week that neither the boys nor girls team would be allowed to participate in the three-day tournament hosted by Fort Bragg High starting Monday, Mendocino Unified School District Superintendent Jason Morse said.

School bans 'I Can't Breathe' T-shirts at tournament

A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing protests over police killings of unarmed black men after a school was disinvited because of concerns its players would wear T-shirts... 3 hours ago

Nation & World

Relatives of the passengers on board the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that went missing on March 8, 2014 stand near a TV showing a live broadcast of the missing AirAsia Flight 8501 from Surabaya to Singapore, during their year-end gathering at a house in Beijing, China Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014. In the third air incident connected to Malaysia this year, an AirAsia plane disappeared Sunday while flying over the Java Sea after taking off from Indonesia's second-largest city for Singapore.

Search suspended for missing AirAsia plane with 162 on board

AirAsia flight 8501 disappeared Sunday while flying from Indonesia to Singapore through airspace possibly thick with dense storm clouds, strong winds and lightning, officials said. 16 minutes ago

Opinion

California Public Utilities Commissioners Carla Peterman, from left rear, Mike Florio, President Michael Peevey, Catherine Sandoval and Michael Picker listen during public comment as protesters hold up signs against the use of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s SmartMeters during a meeting of the five-member commission in San Francisco, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014.

EDITORIAL: Appointees to state PUC have big, tough job ahead

Gov. Jerry Brown has now selected all five members of the troubled California Public Utilities Commission. It should become a model consumer agency, one that helps lead the state toward smart and expanded use of renewable energy. If it doesn’...