FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 48-year-old man from Clovis was sentenced on Monday following the theft of $1.4 million worth of COVID-19 relief money, according to the federal Department of Justice. Prosecutors say 48-year-old Ruben Mireles owned and operated a contracting business in Kings County, originally called Vista Pacific Labor Solutions Inc. (VPLS), then changed […]
CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A woman is in police custody after a vehicle chase through the streets of Clovis and Fresno on Monday, which began when the woman arrived at her old place of work while under the influence, the Clovis Police Department says. According to police, the woman turned up at around 12:30 p.m. […]
Teachers can fly Pride flags and students can change their pronouns at school without parental notification, according to a union statement detailing a new agreement between school psychologists and Clovis Unified School District. This means the district has agreed to change or modify two of its policies that the union and others say were negatively […]
CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Officers are actively in pursuit of multiple suspects who robbed two men outside a Target in Clovis Monday evening, the Clovis Police Department announced. Police say just before 6:40 p.m. they responded to a Target parking lot near Clovis and Shaw for a report of an armed robbery. Investigators learned at […]
Feb. 27—SynerGen Solar plans to build a solar facility near Clovis that will connect to New Mexico’s grid and provide electricity to thousands of homes. The Maryland-based company, along with the utility EPCOR USA, announced the plans for the solar energy project last week, saying that once complete, the project will produce up to 90 […]
Finding an affordable place to live in Clovis may soon become a lot easier now that a landmark lawsuit filed by housing advocate Desiree Martinez was recently settled, opening the door for up to 3,000 new home opportunities. Martinez and her team of attorneys alleged in their 2019 lawsuit that the city was out of […]
Feb. 12—Vana LLC, a woman-owned cannabis manufacturer, will be the first cannabis business to receive money from the state Local Economic Development Act fund, according to a news release. Vana was also the first company to receive New Mexico’s first cannabis manufacturing license in January 2022. Vana is a processing and manufacturing facility in Clovis. […]
A juvenile was taken to the Fresno hospital early Sunday after he was shot. Officers with the Clovis Police Department responded just after midnight to the 2600 block of Sierra Madre Avenue for a possible shooting, spokesman Ty Wood said. A witness told police that the boy was on the ground and then jumped into […]
For the first time ever, Clovis residents will be hosting district-based elections instead of an at-large voting process when electing their next school board representatives. Registered voters will only be able to vote for their specific district representative and not for candidates in other areas across the district in the 2024 election. That means there’s […]
The state’s public employees labor watchdog recently called out Clovis Unified School District for financially supporting the Faculty Senate, a district-sanctioned group of teachers that is supposed to function as a representative of the district’s educators. However, a local labor group said the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruling does not go far enough and […]
Pain was on the menu this last year on the Fresno-Clovis restaurant scene. Restaurants struggled to stay in business amid crushing costs, more than two dozen not surviving. And customers also felt the pain, as they mourned some of their favorite long-time places closing their doors for good. We said goodbye to Hunan Chinese restaurant […]