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Hundreds of brides-to-be and their family and friends converged at the Premier Bride Showplace held at the Fresno Convention Center New Exhibit Hall in downtown Fresno Sunday. Read comments

After a string of sub-freezing nights chilled the Valley, a high pressure system moving into the Fresno area this week will bring spring-like days across the region, the National Weather Service in Hanford said. Read comments

Two people escaped with minor injuries from a head-on crash Sunday night on Highway 41 near Avenue 12 in Madera County, the California Highway Patrol said. Read comments

UPDATE: The children were found and are safe, Visalia police reported about midnight. Read comments

A fire in the 3000 block of North Ninth Street in central Fresno attributed to an electrical overload caused an estimated $25,000 in damage to a home Monday, the Fresno Fire Department reported. Read comments

Like 1-year-old kids, the tiger cubs at Fresno Chaffee Zoo ripped into their birthday gifts Monday — gift wrap, bows and name tags went flying! Read comments

Water was restored to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office headquarters, the south annex jail and Courthouse Park in downtown Fresno on Friday morning after crews were forced to turn the water off for 24 hours to replace a broken irrigation valve. Read comments

The next contract to run the concessions at Yosemite National Park is a lucrative and complicated package that’s shedding light on business in the park even as it raises questions about who owns some famous park names. Read comments

Three consecutive nights of freezing temperatures in the Valley could cause some damage to oranges on trees in outer rows of groves in the region’s coldest areas, a citrus grower’s industry group said Friday, but it will minimal. Read comments

A man was struck and killed by a Fresno-bound Amtrak train Friday night near the intersection of Herndon and Milburn avenues. Read comments