An audit shows the Grizzlies are still in the red, Fresno's city budget has a multimillion-dollar gap that needs filling, and medical marijuana growing is legal in Fresno County -- but there is no system to issue permits.

A 1974 memo from Dow Chemical describes several chemicals in a widely used farm fumigant as "garbage." Today, one of those useless chemicals threatens drinking water for more than 1 million people across the San Joaquin Valley.

Eager homebuyers once had to get on a waiting list for a chance at a house in Fresno's Vineyards neighborhood west of Highway 99. That was in 2006. In the five years since then, residents have seen what an imploding real estate market can do.

At a Visalia mural commemorating the heroes of World War II, military veterans last week raised an American flag to restore the site's dignity.

I imagine that when Superintendent Michael Hanson interviewed Jamilah Fraser about running Fresno Unified's public-information office, he asked if she knew how to get in front of a story.

When Gov. Jerry Brown called the state budget "a pretzel palace of incredible complexity" last week, he was stating, in his inimitable way, the obvious.