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The U.S. Postal Service will expand its Saturday hours and be open on Sunday in several Fresno County post offices to accommodate holiday mailings. Read comments

The California Autism Center and the Poverello House are teaming up to collect Christmas presents for 3,500 children from Fresno. Read comments

The Fresno Chaffee Zoo will host two Christmas-themed events this Saturday. Read comments

The fourth annual Holiday Kibble Drop will stop in Clovis on Saturday to deliver food for needy animals in three local shelters. Read comments

Tulare County Foster Care Licensing will hold an orientation for prospective foster parents at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 18 at 26500 S. Mooney Blvd. Read comments

Mayor Ashley Swearengin on Thursday made a strong pitch for Fresno’s new blueprint for growth and inner-city rebirth. Read comments

The Fresno County Department of Public Health, in collaboration with community partners, is hosting a showing of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt — local memorial panels until 8 p.m. Thursday at The Painted Table, 1211 N. Wishon Ave. Read comments

A 14-year-old Clovis East High School student was killed in a two-vehicle crash Friday morning at a rural intersection south of the campus. Read comments

The Clovis City Council for several years has proposed putting a new library on a slice of industrial land near downtown, but the property owners were unwilling to sell. Read comments

Joe Quercia was talking to a buddy and staring out a porthole of the USS Medusa in Pearl Harbor when gunfire rang out and an explosion rocked the Hawaiian naval base on Dec. 7, 1941. Read comments