There’s a town outside of Fresno, California, named Selma. Its official motto is “Raisin Capital of the World.” For many families, raisin farming is the only thing they know how to do.

Reporting from Selma, Calif. — They’re stealing this small town’s history. The bronze plaques that marked the wheres and noted the whos and whispered the back story of Selma, “raisin ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the nearby town of Selma is “the raisin capital of the world,” according to Feaster. The property’s ...

The canes of raisins hanging in bunches in a Fresno County vineyard were cut five weeks ago. The leaves are dried up. Ray Jacobsen knows his Selma Pete variety raisins are ready. Jacobsen said ...

SELMA, California (KFSN) -- In the Raisin Capital of the World, the Raisin Queen reigns supreme, but an arsonist is threatening the history of the throne. In among the torched remnants of auction ...

This is where Selma, raisin capital of the world, still lives and dies by the grape. When the berries sugar up fast, as they have this year, harvest comes early. The season finds the farmer at his ...

Robert Allen, the chamber’s executive director, was born in Selma and has lived in town for 72 years. “We’re very proud of the fact that we still produce raisins and can call ourselves the ...

Raisins. Love them or hate them, the wrinkly little fruit is tied up in our identity and our economy. Technically, Selma is the raisin capital of the country, but scads of raisins are produced in ...