The state of California is hiring employees in Fresno County for full-time positions ranging from legal work to nursing and engineering.

State jobs are known for offering competitive benefits and enrollment in the state’s public pension plan.

Sift through some of the latest state jobs available in Fresno County on the CalCareers website, as of Thursday, Jan. 9:

Bilingual outreach analyst | Permanent, full time

The outreach analyst develops outreach materials and collaborates with enforcement programs to establish strategic goals for high-profile outreach campaigns for under-served and vulnerable worker populations, strategic industries and other industries where specific mandates exist.

The outreach analyst acts as a subject matter expert within the division to disseminate information to a broad audience, including under-served and vulnerable worker populations, worker- and employer community-based organizations and other key stakeholders throughout California.

The application period closes on Wednesday, Jan. 22.

Certified nursing assistant | Permanent, full time

The certified nursing assistant works in the skilled nursing and memory care units of the Veterans Home of California in Fresno and is responsible for providing care and tending to the physical needs of the residents.

The application period is open until filled.

Clinical social worker | Permanent, full time

The clinical social worker conducts assessments and summarizes case information to use in diagnosis, treatment and dispositional release.

Other duties include diagnosing patients and developing, monitoring and modifing treatment plans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team.

The clinical social worker also provides assessments, group therapy and collateral conferences; documents and evaluates patients’ progress in treatment, and coordinates placement with community resources and the classification and parole representative.

The position is based at Pleasant Valley State Prison.

The application is open until filled.

Dentist | Permanent, full time

The dentist is responsible for the delivery of dental care, including preventive care, to patients at a state correctional facility.

The dentist participates in performance management activities to continuously improve the Incarcerated Dental Services Program.

The application period is open until Wednesday, Jan. 29

Program technician III | Permanent, full time

The program technician is primarily responsible for responding to audit-related inquiries and processing the most complex support work on difficult or multifaceted issues in regard to employment taxes, working in an out-stationed office or a headquarters setting.

The program technician also ensures compliance with laws, regulations and policies and assists taxpayers in complying with the laws.

Other duties include ensuring voluntary compliance with employment taxes and acting as a lead person for program support staff.

The program technician may be called upon to train staff in any of the duties within their expertise.

The application period closes on Saturday, Jan. 18.

Research data specialist | Permanent, full time

The research data specialist’s main job is to design spatial applications using the department’s geospatial analytical tools to deliver processes and products that solve complex problems, and provide information to management.

The research data special also oversees other products developed by peers and provide support and data for other staff to complete their duties.

Other duties include developing and utilizing methodology and techniques where precedents are lacking and a sparse body of knowledge exists.

The application period closes on Wednesday, Jan. 22.

Senior psychiatrist | Permanent, full time

The senior psychiatrist is responsible for providing direct assistance to correctional and rehabilitation institutions.

This includes the identification and removal of obstacles to providing psychiatric services, identification and monitoring of corrective action plans, and participation in quality management processes.

With a focus on court-ordered directives, the senior psychiatrist works to make improvements in productivity and quality of care, providing guidance and consultation to the institutions. Statewide travel is required with this position.

The application period closes on Tuesday, Jan. 21.

Attorney III | Permanent, full time

The head of Customs and Border Patrol told Fresno’s democratic congressman that the immigration enforcement operation it carried out in the Central Valley this week has concluded and was confined to Kern County, the U.S. representative said Saturday during a news conference.

“It’s not clear to me that that’s the case,” said Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, at the news conference in Fresno on Saturday morning. Costa added that he has heard reports that conflict with the Border Patrol’s statements to him.

The information that Costa relayed from Border Patrol Commissioner Pete Flores further confirms that ”Operation Return to Sender” is over. But the agency said in a social media post earlier this week that it is also planning operations in Fresno and Sacramento. Elected officials on Saturday spoke with uncertainty about what comes next and also denounced enforcement tactics that spread fear among working immigrants.

“He (Flores) told me that, in fact, they (Border Patrol) had concluded their effort as a result of their arrests as of a day or two ago (and would) reassess where they would go from there,” Costa said.

Fresno County Supervisor Luis Chavez, who organized the news conference, said the fear that has gripped Fresno’s immigrant families is “100% real.” Chavez said he has heard some parents who are not going to be sending their children to school this week.

“If you don’t have students in the classroom, you’re not going to get funding,” he said, “and that’s just the way the formula works. That’s going to hurt our community.”

News of Costa’s conversation with Border Patrol’s leadership comes after a week of immigration agent sightings that produced anxiety among the region’s undocumented workforce. Various reports confirmed the Border Patrol’s operations in the Bakersfield area beginning Tuesday, with indications that the raids could stretch for several days. Border Patrol then officially reported it was carrying out “Operation Return to Sender” in Kern County with more than 60 agents from El Centro, a town close to the Mexican border.

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Costa said Flores told him the action yielded 78 arrests and targeted specific undocumented criminals on a list that focused on sex, drug and human trafficking crimes. But an assistant chief patrol agent said earlier in the week that there were individuals arrested who were not on the list.

The description of an operation that solely targeted criminals also has been contradicted by numerous accounts from Kern County community members. In the past week, stories have circulated about immigration agents approaching people at Home Depot and at gas stations and about farmworkers approached on their way to work. Cal Matters on Friday published an account of agents blocking one woman in her car with their vehicles before they drove away due to the arrival of local Univision news reporters.

“Let me be clear, I support getting bad people off the streets,” Costa said at the news conference. “But mass deportation reflects a different notion, and breaking families up is not the American way. And spreading fear to hard working people who are contributing every day to the betterment ... is not the way to deal with fixing our border.”

Margarita Rocha, executive director of the nonprofit Centro La Familia, said during Saturday’s news conference that the group has begun receiving concerned calls.

“We’ve not said a lot about children,” she said, “how they don’t want to go to school because they’ve heard their parents talking about the possibility that, if dad or mom goes to work, they may not come home. What happens? The children are highly impacted and will be traumatized for years.”

The Bee contacted immigrants at the Cherry Auction flea market Saturday, which is frequented on weekends by farmworkers and their families.

One married couple who runs a daycare in the Fresno area that serves immigrant parents said clients are on edge after this week’s raids.

“We serve mostly people who work in the fields,” the wife said in Spanish. “Everyone is nervous because they don’t know if they’re going to drop off their children in the morning and not be around to pick them up at the end of the day.”

One merchant, Alejandro Padilla, who also works in the fields, said the rumors of impending raids have been rampant among farmworkers this week.

“A few people I have worked with told me they weren’t going to work this week,” he said. “They are afraid that if they are arrested, they will not be given a fair case, that they will be thrown out and separated from their children.”

On Friday, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office shared on Facebook that it was not involved in any of the Border Patrol’s enforcement actions reported this week.

“Our deputies do NOT conduct enforcement actions related to immigration matters; it is not part of our job description,” the post said.

This story was originally published January 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM.

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Erik is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, where he helped launch an effort to better meet the news needs of Spanish-speaking immigrants. Before that, he served as editor-in-chief of his community college student newspaper, Riverside City College Viewpoints, where he covered the impacts of the Salton Sea’s decline on its adjacent farm worker communities in the Southern California desert. Erik’s work is supported through the California Local News Fellowship program.

CNET’s top pick for the best internet provider in Fresno, California, is AT&T Fiber, offering reliable download and upload speeds at a reasonable monthly price. The downside, however, is that AT&T Fiber's coverage area doesn't include all of Fresno, so a significant share of residents still don't have access to it.

If you can't get AT&T Fiber at your address, look at Xfinity. It has some of the cheapest internet plans, starting at $35. Just watch out for price increases and extra fees. T-Mobile is another option that works well for small households with one or two people. Though the company also has options for larger families, such as T-Mobile’s $70 Home Internet Plus Plan.

Our team looks at speed, pricing, customer service and overall value to recommend the best internet service. We use a special database that we've built over years of reviewing internet services. To ensure accuracy, we check if the service is available at local addresses, too. We also read the terms and conditions of providers carefully and, when needed, contact ISPs to confirm the details.

Our process has some limitations you should know about. Pricing and speed data are variable: Certain addresses may qualify for different service tiers, and monthly costs may vary, even within a city. The best way to identify your particular options is to plug your address into a provider's website.

Note that the prices, speeds and other information listed above and in the provider cards below may differ from what we found in our research. The cards display the full range of a provider's pricing and speeds across the US, according to our database of plan information provided directly by ISPs. At the same time, the text is specific to what’s available in Fresno. The prices referenced within this article’s text come from our research and include applicable discounts for setting up automatic payments each month -- a standard industry offering. Other discounts and promotions might also be available for things like committing to a contract or bundling with a cellphone plan.

To learn more about how we review internet providers, visit our full methodology page.

Top internet providers in Fresno

No matter where you live in Fresno, you’ll likely have access to some good internet options. AT&T Fiber is available to about a quarter of Fresno residents and offers the fastest speeds at fair prices. Those who can’t get AT&T Fiber have a good backup in Xfinity, which is available almost everywhere in the city.

Source: CNET analysis of provider data.

What other internet options are there in Fresno?

There are a few other internet providers operating in Fresno, but they typically have slower speeds and higher prices. Still, they’re worth considering in more rural areas.

Pricing info on Fresno home internet service

Fresno residents have some extremely cheap internet plans available -- and most of them are from one provider. Xfinity offers some of the cheapest starting prices you’ll find anywhere in the country, but you’ll have to take a close look at the fine print. By Year 3, you’ll be paying $79 for 300Mbps and $89 for 500Mbps.

Source: CNET analysis of provider data.

How fast is Fresno broadband?

Compared to other cities of its size, Fresno has an abundance of fast internet plans available. Three different providers offer “gig speeds” -- download speeds of 940Mbps or higher -- and AT&T Fiber offers symmetrical speeds up to 5,000Mbps in some areas. Currently only 46% of Fresno can get 1,000/100Mbps speeds, according to FCC data.

Source: CNET analysis of provider data.

What’s the final word on internet providers in Fresno?

For the portion of Fresno households that have access to AT&T Fiber, picking an internet provider is an easy decision. AT&T has symmetrical upload and download speeds, straightforward and reasonable pricing, and the best customer satisfaction scores of any provider in the country. Xfinity is a worthy backup option, but its pricing is complicated and your bill will increase significantly by Year 3. T-Mobile Home Internet maintains a guaranteed all-in price of $50 a month, but its speeds are best for households with just one or two people.

How CNET chose the best internet providers in Fresno

Internet service providers are numerous and regional. Unlike the latest smartphone, laptop, router or kitchen tool, it's impractical to personally test every internet service provider in a given city. So what's our approach? For starters, we tap into a proprietary database of pricing, availability and speed information that draws from our own historical ISP data, partner data and mapping information from the Federal Communications Commission at FCC.gov.

This guide leverages an in-house artificial intelligence tool called RAMP, which is trained on our own writing and uses our database to generate content about specific internet service providers that our writers can use in determining and presenting our picks for a given guide. Check CNET’s AI policy for more information about how our teams use (and don’t use) AI tools.

Because our database is not exhaustive, we go to the FCC’s website to check the primary data for ourselves and make sure we’re considering every ISP that provides service in an area. Plans and prices also vary by location, so we input local addresses on provider websites to find the specific options available to residents. To evaluate how happy customers are with an ISP's service, we look at sources including the American Customer Satisfaction Index and J.D. Power. ISP plans and prices are subject to frequent changes; all information provided is accurate as of the time of our pre-publication fact-check.

Once we have this localized information, we ask three main questions:

The answers to those questions are often layered and complex, but the providers that come closest to “yes” on all three are the ones we recommend. When selecting the cheapest internet service, we look for the plans with the lowest monthly fee, although we also factor in things like price increases, equipment fees and contracts. Choosing the fastest internet service is relatively straightforward. We look at advertised upload and download speeds and consider real-world speed data from sources like Ookla and FCC reports. (Disclosure: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)

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Many of the crews providing defense from the air and on the ground in the Southern California wildfires are from right here in the Valley.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Crews from Merced, Fresno, Clovis, Sanger, Tulare, Visalia, and other Central California communities are on the frontlines in Los Angeles, helping to fight one of the worst fire disasters the state has ever seen.

Firefighters on the ground in Altadena tell Action News progress is being made on the Eaton Fire as their efforts shift to a different plan of attack.

"The fire has already moved through there, so they're more concerned about any putting out any smoldering embers so they don't get any wind kicking up which they're expecting more winds in the next couple of days," says Chief Michael Canales, Reedley Fire Department.

Reedley Fire Crews were stationed near the Hurst Fire on Friday, on standby to be out in a moment's notice.

"They need to be able to respond within 2 to 3 minutes if they're called to either go and assist engines on that fire or they make a dispatch to one of the other fires," says Chief Canales.

Cal Fire Fresno County says they sent a 'significant portion' of its resources to battle the infernos.

156 people of their about 400-person force, as well as eleven engines, two bulldozers, and six hand crews. The Cal Fire Fresno Air Attack base also sent help from the sky.

Resources from across the Central Valley are now being moved around to fill in the gaps. For example, Madera and Mariposa came down to help Fresno as they sent resources down South. As well as fire planes from Porterville are now stationed in at the Fresno Air Attack Base.

"Kings County Fire has a bulldozer covering the Coalinga County station, and Fresno County Fire has a bulldozer covering the Sanger station," says Juan Navarro, Battalion Chief Cal Fire Fresno County.

Water Tenders like the one sent from Reedley are vital in the firefight.

"What I've heard is they are still having a very hard time with getting water supplied to a lot of the hydrants within the different city systems, so that's where the water tenders are very important to be able to fill those engines that are on the line suppressing the fire actively," Says

At this point, Cal Fire is still anticipating orders to send even more people, including their Search and Rescue Team.

"If the orders come in and they are deployed, they'll be going down there and assisting with finding missing persons or assisting with damage inspection and getting them back to the incident commanders at each incident so they can get a total count of how many structures are destroyed and then rescue any individuals that may be missing," says Navarro.

This mutual aid is critical, especially due to the unpredictable nature of the wind and the spread of fire.

"I wouldn't expect our crew to come home anytime soon," says Navarro.

Typically, an assignment for crews lasts about two weeks, but this can be extended.

Fire leaders say when there are events in Southern California, Valley crews typically stay there longer than say crews from out of state because it is more logistically and cost efficient.

Take a look at the latest stories and videos on the devastating Southern California wildfires here.

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