Conchas and community: Join Fresno Bee reporters for a holiday gathering
Come help us welcome the holiday season with Mexican sweet bread, hot chocolate and community.
As the year comes to a close, we’d like to take a minute to pause and say thank you for reading The Fresno Bee and Vida en el Valle and for supporting our local journalists with a subscription.
We invite you to meet our team of bilingual reporters and share your ideas for stories and voices you’d like to see covered by The Bee.
This free event will be held downtown from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 16, at The Fresno Bee’s newsroom in the Factory 41 building at 2721 Cesar Chavez Blvd., Ste. 107, Fresno.
This gathering is hosted by Fresno Bee and Vida en el Valle journalists and the La Abeja reporting team. “La Abeja,” which means “The Bee” in Spanish, is an initiative across McClatchy’s Fresno, Merced, Modesto and Sacramento papers launched in 2021 to report on issues impacting the Central Valley’s Latino community.
Subscribe to La Abeja here, a weekly, award-winning newsletter centered around Latino issues in California, written for Latinos by Latinos.
You’ll also have the chance to win a festive holiday prize in our Abeja-sponsored raffle.
Don’t miss your chance to take a picture with The Bee’s winged mascot, the one and only Scoopy!
Fresno Bee’s Latino community coverage
Over the past year, our reporters have been busy covering several important issues facing Latino and immigrant communities.
Our team covered January’s three-day Border Patrol operation in Kern County, which was the first of what has been a series of immigration enforcement sweeps in cities nationwide as the Trump administration promises to deliver the largest deportation campaign in history.
Since then, we’ve covered ICE arrest tactics in Fresno, exclusive coverage of Fresno-area deportation statistics and the opening of California’s largest ICE deportation facility in Kern County.
In response to questions we’ve received from readers, we hosted a virtual immigration panel with immigration lawyers and civic leaders to unpack the complicated web of the U.S. immigration system.
We understand the diversity of the Latino experience and do our best to capture that, too.
Throughout the year, we’ve covered food entrepreneurs and street vendors, civic and political leaders and perspectives on how Fresno “has become a land of opportunity for young Latinos.”
Our journalists are proud to call Fresno home and love to be part of this community. We hope this passion is reflected in our work.
Thank you for supporting local news.
See you on Tuesday, December 16!
This story was originally published December 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM.