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In an effort to combat drinking and driving on New Year’s Eve, AAA will once again give free rides and tow cars home through its Tipsy Tow program. Read comments

Several outages in the Oakhurst and Coarsegold areas left nearly 3,000 people without power Tuesday night, according to PG&E’s outage map. Read comments

New water regulations will be implemented in Visalia starting Thursday. Read comments

Melissa Carleton returned home Saturday to Fresno and saw her baby for the first time in more than two months. Read comments

The horse from the Valley with the metallic name who proved his mettle. A visit by the president that focused attention on the state’s devastating drought. Arsonists who sparked fires that ripped through Fresno — and who may have returned for a second round. Read comments

Pretend you are driving to work, or dropping the kids off at school. It’s 7:45 in the morning, one of the busiest traffic times of the day. You are waiting your turn in line at a four-way intersection controlled by stop signs. It seems like it is taking forever to get through the intersection. Finally, you get to the front of the line and there are a total of seven cars waiting to cross the intersection. Four cars plan on going straight and three cars are making left turns. Can you see it? The confusion?

The Fresno City Clerk’s Office by the end of last week had received 11 votes protesting possible hikes to water rates. Read comments

A cold snap is headed to Fresno and expected to bring freezing temperatures by Wednesday. Read comments

Two people died after being hit by separate Amtrak trains Sunday morning — one in Fresno, the other in Corcoran. Read comments

A teenager killed Sunday when she was struck by a train in Kings County was identified as Maria Mendoza, 17, of Corcoran. Read comments