Good morning, Fresno.

Extreme heat in the Central Valley is speeding up fruit ripening at Blossom Bluff Orchards and forcing growers to change work schedules.

In Fresno, the Wednesday farmers market will run from 3 to 5 instead of 3 to 6 to help vendors avoid the hottest part of the day.

More than 1,000 Fresno volunteers joined the 6th annual Citywide Cleanup Day on Saturday, cleaning over 60 locations from Manchester Center to Ashlan and West.

Mayor Jerry Dyer and local officials celebrated the effort with an after-party at Manchester Center.

UCP+ Central California opened its new 40,000 sqft campus for people with disabilities at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday in northeast Fresno.

The facility features classrooms, a teaching kitchen and a pottery room to boost its day program and serve community events in the evenings and weekends.

Hundreds gathered at Trolley Park Sunday night to release balloons in memory of Daniel Ramirez, a 30-year-old found dead on the roof of Fresno High School Friday — authorities are investigating his death.

Fresnoland investigative reporter and assistant editor Omar S.

Rashad won two national journalism awards in June at the AAJA conference in Minneapolis and ended his tenure at Fresnoland on July 22 as he prepares to join the San Francisco Standard.

Governor Gavin Newsom said California will raise its statewide minimum wage to $17.40 an hour starting January 1, 2027 plus the law adjusts wages yearly for inflation, a change that will affect Fresno workers and businesses.

Today, Build Your Store, an AI Shopify company, reported that Fresno is the best California metro for starting a business with a 69.3% five-year survival rate (using Census Bureau data), ranking it No. 1 statewide and No. 23 nationally.

Fresno-based Parsec Education in the Brewery District is launching its Clarity Lite online tool this week, which lets educators and parents compare school performance data (demographics, assessment scores and college readiness) from state sources.

US Air Force Colonel Travis Stephens assumed command of the 144th Fighter Wing at the Change of Command Ceremony at the Fresno Air National Guard base on Sunday morning — replacing retiring Colonel Joel Pauls after his two-year tenure.

Local health officials are monitoring about 140 farmworkers from Arizona who arrived in the Central Valley after exposure to measles.

The workers in Fresno, Madera, and Merced counties must quarantine + be watched for symptoms over the next 21 days with vaccines available.

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