A New Weapon on Graffiti: Fresno County Enlists Aid of Inmates in Fighting a War That Never Ends. The Project is Funded By Prisoners' Purchases of Snacks, Phone Calls.
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By Denny Boyles, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 10--A Fresno County Jail inmate pulled the trigger on a paint gun Friday and took the first shot in a new campaign against graffiti in rural areas.
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By Denise Jewell Eric Ruest and Matt Zambito don't shy from controversial subjects. The Niagara County residents have taken on clergy and sex, Wal- Mart and the country's drinking age -- all in the name of progress.
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By John Dickey, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Feb. 24--Sutter County will have to come up with millions of dollars if it hopes to secure some of the more than $4 billion in Proposition 1E flood protection money.   A local citizens panel will figure out how.
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By Erik Lacayo, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 16--Los Angeles entrepreneur Quay Hays wants to build a new city in Kings County.   And because of it, people constantly ask him whether he has ever had his head examined.
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By Marc Benjamin, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jan. 31--Fresno County supervisors slowed a plan Tuesday to expand Parlier's future city boundaries, saying the city did not do enough to protect sensitive agricultural areas.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff Writer  County planners have received dozens of requests, mostly from environmental groups, urging more time to add their comments before this week's final hearing on the first phase of the huge Newhall Ranch project.
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By Linda Golz, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 12--The fight over access to water in southern Medina County has been waged for years.
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By Lewis Griswold, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jan. 31--The U.S. Small Business Administration has opened three disaster assistance offices in Tulare County. Nonfarm businesses hurt by the freeze of 2007 can apply for low-interest loans.
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By Tim Moran, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 1--Some inmates in the Stanislaus County Jail may taste freedom several weeks earlier as a result of a change in a work-release program.   The program, in use for 20 years, is called the sheriff's Alternative Work Program.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 20--Pima County will continue to pay for water stations in the desert to aid illegal border crossers.
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The nation's capital of intravenous drug use is not New York or Miami, not Chicago or Detroit &#151; but Fresno. It is an unlikely distinction for a city of fewer than 500,000 people in the heart of one of the nation's richest agricultural regions.
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By Erik Lacayo, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--ARMONA -- In an attempt to save their Armona farm from becoming a water treatment plant, members of a Texas family pleaded their case before the local water district Wednesday night.
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SANTA ANA, California  - The inmate in the Orange County jail had been arrested before, but this time was different. After the first interview, he was led to a second, where he was told that if convicted he could be deported.
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By Chelsea Phua, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--A new sign-posting ordinance will give Sacramento County  residents early notice of development projects proposed in their  neighborhoods, county officials said.
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By Tim Ellis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 21--Area residents can expect to see a lot of activity over the next two weeks as the pace of work picks up on an expansion project at the county landfill on the western edge of Sahuarita.
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By Charles McCarthy, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 27--MADERA -- The Madera County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to buy a former Cal Fire facility in the foothills town of Raymond for $90,000 so that it can be used as a volunteer fire station and community center.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 6--San Joaquin County may squeeze a straw into the Mokelumne River after all.