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Seven months ago, 77-year-old María Sánchez injured her left shoulder and left hand when she slipped on a discarded banana peel on the street while walking home from a shopping trip to the store.
The longtime Calwa resident believes that a sidewalk would have prevented her accident.
“When it rains, I don’t even go to the store because everything is too wet,” said Sánchez, who walks for her errands two to three times weekly.
CALWA, Calif. (KMJ/FOX26) — Fresno County Board of Supervisors Chairman Sal Quintero and Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) held a news conference on Monday to announce $4 million has been allocated to Calwa for street and sidewalk improvements.
The federal funds are part of the Highway Infrastructure Program approved by Congress in March.
Calwa is a small community in Fresno County, just a few miles southeast of downtown Fresno.
The Calwa Complete Streets project will repair roads and sidewalks throughout the unincorporated portion of Calwa.
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Buckling sidewalks and rocky roads -- have been the "norm" for the residents of Calwa... but not for much longer.
Unincorporated areas are receiving federal and county funds for street and sidewalk improvements.
"Some of these areas don't have sidewalks," Milena Alvarez said. "They have kids walking to school on the closest side of the street, closest to the houses, because there are no sidewalks."
Alvarez is a community organizer with Friends of Calwa.
Fresno County Board of Supervisors Chairman Sal Quintero and Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) held a news conference on Monday to announce $4 million has been allocated to Calwa for street and sidewalk improvements.
The federal funds are part of the Highway Infrastructure Program approved by Congress in March.
Calwa is a small community in Fresno County, just a few miles southeast of downtown Fresno.
The Calwa Complete Streets project will repair roads and sidewalks throughout the unincorporated portion of Calwa.
FRESNO, Calif. (KGPE) – Congressman Jim Costa has awarded Senior Deputy District Attorney Miiko Anderson the Suzanne McDaniel Memorial Award for Public Awareness.
It is an award from the Crime Survivors and Justice Caucus.
Anderson grew up in Oakland. Her mother battled substance abuse, and in her young adult years Anderson overcame a number of obstacles including homelessness and surviving as a single parent.
Anderson poured her energy into her education, graduated law school, and passed the bar.
A combination of federal, state, and local Measure C transportation tax funds totaling $7 million will improve streets and sidewalks in Calwa beginning in summer 2025.
Rep. Jim Costa (D-Fresno) secured $4 million in the 2023 federal budget after learning that a county-led survey indicated the top priorities of Calwa residents were road repairs, street lighting, and sidewalks.
“The Calwa Complete Streets project will make a tremendous difference in the community,” Costa wrote in a letter to Fresno County officials.
Millions in federal funding is coming to the community of Calwa for street and sidewalk improvements.
The County of Fresno is announcing that $4 million has been allocated to the unincorporated portion of Calwa for street and sidewalk improvements through the Highway Infrastructure Program, part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act passed by Congress on March 21.
Dubbed the Calwa Complete Streets Project, repairs will be made to roads and sidewalks throughout the community just south of Fresno.
A bill headed by U.S. Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., would seek to ease a years-long shipping bottleneck at West Coast ports by applying federal antitrust laws to foreign ocean shippers that critics say use unfair trade practices that harm American businesses.
The legislation is a further response to ocean carriers’ recent practice of delivering imported goods from China and elsewhere and returning with empty containers, which has caused California tree nut and other growers to lose millions of dollars in overseas sales.
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A push by valley congressmen could see more resources going to protect some of the most iconic plant life in the state of California.
Congressman Jim Costa says they want to do some forest management now and help reduce some of the fuel that could feed fires later this year.
“It’s an effort, a bipartisan effort to really ensure we maintain and protect mother nature’s heritage that she’s given us,” said Costa.
TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Woodlake families impacted by severe flooding are doing their best to rebuild their homes and remain hopeful for financial support.
"At one point in time in the last month, 16 million California's have been living under this horrific flood and snow conditions," said Congressman Jim Costa.
Costa made rounds in Tulare County this week to take a closer look at the devastation caused by recent storms.
He was in Cutler on Wednesday and toured several impacted homes in Woodlake on Friday.
REEDLEY – A federal budget allocation has put Reedley College $2 million closer to being able to build a center where business, technology and agriculture can intersect through innovation.
Tariffs are a dirty word for many people in agriculture. As the American Farm Bureau Federation has pointed out, trade disruptions have created additional hardships for farmers who entered 2025 already dealing with crippling inflation and declining farm prices.
CENTRAL VALLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The first State of the Union address of President Trump's second term promised affordability going forward.
The president hopes to change Americans' minds about his economic agenda.
WASHINGTON, DC. (KSEE/KGPE) – In what was the longest State of the Union address in modern history, President Donald Trump began by focusing on immigration.
“When I last spoke in this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis, with a stagnant economy, inflation at record levels, a wide-open border,” Trump said.
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs are illegal in a 6-3 vote.
“Today’s a good day for the rule of law. Today is a good day for affordability, something that Americans and Californians have been screaming for,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.