resident Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary each month to the Treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers smarting from government-wide spending cuts, the White House said Wednesday.
A new budget report released Tuesday predicts the government will run a $1.1 trillion deficit in the fiscal year that ends in September, a slight dip from last year but still very high by any measure.
Prop 30 would hike the sales tax by a quarter of a cent and impose an income tax increase of up to 2 per cent on the state's highest wage earners, earning from 250 thousand to a million dollars a year.
The City of Atwater is facing a financial crisis. City leaders tell Action News Atwater is now more than $3 million in debt and they're worried the problem could get worse.
It's a hectic time right now at the State Capitol. The session ends in just four days and there are hundreds of bills still waiting for action. One critical issue, pension reform, is among them.
The replica big league ball fields at Granite Park haven't been used in three years. Fresno is on the hook for the $5 million loan the developer got the city to co-sign.
Plans to build a new courthouse in the North Valley have been put on hold because Governor Brown and lawmakers used the construction money to help close the state's budget deficit.
The budget approved by the Fresno City Council Thursday night was counting on four-million dollars in concessions from the Fresno Police Officers Association, but a union proposal has led to a war of words between the city and the police union.