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Members of the House Agriculture Committee are scrounging to find money to boost specialty crops like vegetables and nuts in the still-delayed farm bill, a top committee Democrat said.
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Marjaree Mason Center has been granted $850,000 to fund their capital camping project aimed at building a new resource center for all non-residential services for survivors of domestic violence in Fresno County.
The new resource center is named the Isnardi Foundation Community Resource Center.
SANGER – Sanger has the House Appropriations Committee (Committee) and Congressman Jim Costa to thank for a $850,000 grant that will fund the remodel and renovation of the city’s fire station. The grant is part of over $12 million for local projects in the Valley for fiscal year 2024.
Rep. Jim Costa (D–Fresno) has secured $12.2 million for local projects throughout Congressional District 21.
The funding comes in the form of grants for the federal government’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget.
The big picture: At the top of the list is a $3 million investment in the Upper Kings Groundwater Resiliency Project, which is facilitated by the Alta, Fresno, and Consolidated Irrigation DIstricts. It will construct 3,300 acres of basins to be used for capturing surface water in wet years and pumping groundwater during dry years.
Local, state and federal leaders gathered Saturday at The Fresno Center to address recent immigration enforcement actions that have caused widespread fear and disruption in Central Valley immigrant communities.
SACRAMENTO, California — California farmers — some of President Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters in the deep blue state — are sticking with him, even after he wasted their water.
The head of Customs and Border Patrol told Fresno’s democratic congressman that the immigration enforcement operation it carried out in the Central Valley this week has concluded and was confined to Kern County, the U.S. representative said Saturday during a news conference.
(Inside California Politics) — Congressman Jim Costa, D-Fresno, joined Inside California Politics co-host Frank Buckley to discuss President Biden’s executive actio
MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Traveling to Yosemite National Park as a group is now easier for people who live in Fresno, or visit the city.
Four brand new YARTS buses are now available, extending the Highway 41 corridor.
"There was absolutely no way, that we could pass up the opportunity to ensure that our residents here in Fresno, as well as those passing through our airport, and visiting would not have the ability to access the gem that we have in Yosemite," said Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer.