Avenal News

A fire Monday afternoon near Avenal scorched about 60 acres of brush, Kings County Fire Department officials said.

Get the Latest CBS47 News Update from Friday Afternoon, June 26th. People gathered with heavy hearts in the Kings County city of Avenal today where a rosary was held for U.S. Army Sergeant Joshua Soto.

Visitation services will be held Friday, June 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 428 E. Kern St., Avenal.

The body of a Kern County native killed in action in Iraq was scheduled to be returned to Bakersfield Thursday morning.

There are an additional 30 cities poised to take this same action in coming weeks with many more expected.

A Fort Bliss soldier was killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Sgt. Joshua Soto, 25, of Avenal, Calif., was serving at Tallil Air Base during his third tour of duty in Iraq, his family told the Fresno Bee.

An Avenal man serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq was killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb.

A soldier from Avenal has died in Iraq. It was Army Sergeant Joshua Soto's third tour.

The National Sand Drag Association 2009 Summer Nationals kicked off in Avenal, California and The On-Fire 4 God Test of Faith Sand Drag Quad Race Team was there.

Avenal State Prison officials continue to search for an inmate who escaped from the facility early Monday morning.

Woodlake's small-town atmosphere and new, inexpensive apartments explain its 4.1 percent growth the largest of any Tulare County city from 2007 to 2008, Woodlake officials say.

A headline in the April 14 Tribune said, 'Paso prison project gets rolling again.' When completed, it will house at least 1,500 prisoners on the former site of what some Roblans will always call the Boys School.

It is a black day. Although many citizens with a loved one in prison faxed in details about CDCr Agency Secretary Matthew Cate's deliberate indifference that has resulted in irreparable harm to prison inmates, the Senate Rules Committee confirmed him anyway.

Turn on the pumps, the people cried again and again. Turn on the pumps. "Agua, agua!" Thousands of farmers, laborers and others dependent on San Joaquin Valley agriculture pleaded for the state and federal governments on Friday to crank the Delta spigot and send water south to their fields.

The great Central Valley of California has never been an easy place. Dry and almost uninhabitable by nature, the state's engineering marvels brought water down from the north and the high Sierra, turning ...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments: Arthur Carter, Andrew Chesley, Sidney Craighead, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Michael Nelson, Richard Ortega, Robert Pacheco, David ...

An unannounced search of employees at Avenal State Prison has turned up an assortment of contraband, including pocketknives, pliers, scissors -- and a crack pipe.

Woman in wheelchair saved after being hit by big rig Firefighters freed a woman and her wheelchair from beneath a big-rig truck after she was struck near Herndon and Blackstone avenues Friday night.

An Avenal man was arrested on a manslaughter charge after a fatal collision south of Lemoore.

A man wanted on suspicion of burglary and possession of stolen property remains at large after escaping during a traffic stop in Avenal on Sunday.