Big Kahuna Yogurt opens fourth Valley location

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Published on 06/14/2013 - 10:12 am

Written by Clay Moffitt

Big Kahuna Yogurt opened its latest store on May 26 in the Hanford Mall, in what the company expects to be a proliferation of the Central Valley region.
The frozen yogurt retailer opened its first location in the Valley in Visalia in 2010. The next year its Tulare store opened and last year it opened a shop in Clovis near the Sierra Vista Mall movie theater.
“We started opening up more locations in response to our customers,” said Freddy Garcia, franchise owner. “Our customers were saying to us ‘Come to Fresno! Come to Tulare! Come to Hanford!’”

$5.1M OKd for Tulare Co. digester

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Published on 06/14/2013 - 10:09 am

Written by Leah Canseco

The Tulare County Board of Supervisors this week denied an appeal from Sundale Vineyards, a neighbor of Harvest Power’s facility near Tulare, to deny a permit to build a biomethane digester and expand its composting facility.

Local restaurateurs look to new technology

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Published on 06/14/2013 - 10:05 am

Written by Clay Moffitt

With the opening of Dave Fansler’s newest venture Westwoods BBQ & Spice Company in the coming months, the Fresno restaurateur eyes the occasion as the perfect opportunity to test and find out which software products will pave the way for the future of the industry.

High Hopes

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Published on 06/14/2013 - 9:57 am

Written by Ben Keller

Business community pleased with new Fresno State president

While he hasn’t officially filled the position yet, incoming Fresno State President Joseph Castro understands the influence the university has on the Valley’s economy and in bringing both business and community leaders together to promote the region to the world.

KSEE, KGPE newsrooms will compete despite same ownership

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Published on 06/07/2013 - 1:23 pm

Written by Chuck Harvey

KSEE, Fresno’s NBC affiliate, and KGPE, the CBS affiliate, will be housed together starting this fall, but that is not expected to reduce competition and drive to excel between the two newsrooms.

The stations will operate separate newscasts in a soon to be renovated KSEE building at 5035 E. McKinley Ave.

Food processors discuss water efficiency

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Published on 06/07/2013 - 1:21 pm

Written by Chuck Harvey

Farmers and food processors are developing high-tech water-efficient technologies to survive reduced water allocations and create greater stability in a water-thirsty region.

Innovation in water conservation was highlighted at the recent BlueTech Valley Conference in Clovis.

Food spurs local expansion

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Published on 06/07/2013 - 1:20 pm

Written by Leah Canseco

The Central Valley continues to see expansion in the food processing sector, creating hundreds of new jobs. 

Sanger chicken plant expands

Pitman Family Farms has added 25,000 square-feet to its Sanger chicken processing plant at 1489 K St. Building improvements totaled about $2 million. 

Lyles Center hatchery launches student enterprise

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Published on 06/07/2013 - 1:18 pm

Written by Ben Keller

Sometimes, budding entrepreneurs just need a little motivation to get their business venture off the ground.

That’s certainly been the case for many of the 30 or so Fresno State students helped through the hatchery program since it started up in the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 2006.

Digging in for the long haul

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Published on 06/07/2013 - 1:16 pm

Written by Ben Keller

Tulare County mine owner bullish on aggregate demand

The Valley’s shortage of aggregate used in road base and other construction materials isn’t worrying Mitch Brown, who’s newest rock mine near Porterville is quickly churning out quality product to build the state’s future infrastructure.

No surface water for Tulare ID farmers this year

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Published on 05/30/2013 - 11:07 am

Written by John Lindt

The driest January through April in California history has delivered a knockout punch for water deliveries in the 70,000-acre Tulare Irrigation District.