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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno Yosemite International Airport will be getting some major upgrades.
On Friday, officials broke ground on a terminal expansion project called "FAT Forward" that they hope will bring more non-stop flights in and out of the country.
The project aims to bring significant upgrades to the Fresno Yosemite international airport by the fall of 2025.
"What we were trying to do pales to what is going to happen here next," said Assemblymember Jim Patterson.
As jets landed and taxied for takeoff in the background, Fresno city officials broke ground Friday on a nearly $127 million expansion at Fresno Yosemite International Airport.
A leveled dirt field just south of the main terminal will be the site of a new terminal concourse, passenger security screening area, international arrivals facility, new shopping and dining areas and state-of-the art baggage handling systems.
Nevada-based Q&D Construction will head up the project.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the Safeguarding American Value-Added Exports (SAVE) Act this week. The legislation seeks to establish a list of common names for a variety of ag commodities and food products. Not only would the SAVE Act assign definitions to common names, but the Secretary of Agriculture and U.S. Trade Representative would also have to defend the right to use those common names in foreign markets.
WASHINGTON – House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Produce Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim Costa delivered the following statement at today's hearing entitled "A Review of Animal Agriculture Stakeholder Priorities." Watch the full hearing here.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Jim Costa (CA-21) and Dusty Johnson (SD-AL) along with U.S.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and a bipartisan group of members sent letter urging President Joe Biden to provide F-16 fighter aircraft to Ukraine as Kyiv continues its fight against Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion one year into the conflict.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) and Congressman David G. Valadao (CA-22) introduced the Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act. Some of California’s largest and most destructive wildfires have happened in the last five years, underscoring the urgent need to increase investment in alternative firefighting systems. This bipartisan legislation seeks to meet that need by evaluating and updating deployment protocols for Containerized Aerial Fire Fighting Systems (CAFFS).
Proposed bipartisan legislation from two Valley congressmen would jump-start the effort to bring a wildfire-fighting technology used in other parts of the world to the United States.
It’s the very technology that a Fresno company has sold to other countries and the U.S. Air Force for years.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and a bipartisan group of House members sent a letter to Secretary of State, Antony Blinken to exert pressure on the Pakistani government in order to address the human rights situation.
Read the full letter here.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and over 190 of his colleagues sent a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Department of State to address the significant delays in processing passport applications.