Madera News

The well that supplies water to Parkwood, a small community outside Madera, failed Monday, forcing residents to use bottled water for the past three days.

After presiding over the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District for six months, one chief executive officer is heading on to another challenge while a new one takes the reigns locally.

The Merced County Board of Supervisors will meet at 10 a.m. today at the county administration building, 2222 M St. Appointing a new county librarian is on the agenda.

Merced is looking for groups to operate the McNamara Park Community Center and provide youth programming and other activities.

Seven was an unlucky number for heat-sensitive Fresno residents Saturday as the thermometer topped out at 105, the seventh day in a row for a triple-digit high.

The temperature climbed to triple digits for the fifth straight day in the Valley on Thursday, and the heat wave is expected to continue at least another seven days, forecasts show.

In Fresno on Tuesday, people who had business downtown dealt with the triple-digit heat as best as they could.

LUDLOW - After interviewing three finalists for the police chief job Tuesday night, the Board of Selectmen voted 5 to 0 to appoint Provisional Police Chief Pablo Madera to the position.

The following was submitted for publication by the Marin CHP: On Wednesday, July 30th, at 7:00 p.m., the California Highway Patrol will be presenting a Start Smart Class at the CHP Marin Area Office which is located at 53 San Clemente Dr, Corte Madera, CA 94925.

Brian Wilkinson/Sierra Star On Monday, June 30, Madera County Sheriff Deputies retrieve an unidentified body from the east bank of the Fresno River, 70 yards north of the Fresno River Bridge on Crane Valley Road .

A 28-year-old man was caught in the midst of a burglary at the Madera Unified School District maintenance yard early Sunday morning, Madera police reported.

San Diego case is an early test of a law on parole for crimes committed by juveniles who got long sentences Even the convicted killer now admits it was brutal and senseless: a young police officer left in the gutter, three bullets in his chest, one in his right temple, after a traffic stop.

The U.S. Department of Transportation gave its approval Friday for work to begin on the second leg of California's proposed $68 billion high-speed rail line, endorsing the state's environmental review for the section running between Fresno and Bakersfield.

A cabin to serve as camp office is one of 11 being built by the Boy Scouts' Camp Chawanakee near Shaver Lake.

A 60-year-old woman was killed Thursday evening when her Chevy drifted into the path of an oncoming tour bus at Road 145 and Highway 41 in Madera, CHP officers said.

The effect of the drought on California's agriculture industry has eliminated jobs for many farm workers, both migrants and people who call the Central Valley home year round.

There's a mystery surrounding an urn in Madera. A man found the urn, which is holding a baby's ashes, while he was working and he's trying to find the owner.

The California High-Speed Rail project has come to mirror the saying "The emperor has no clothes."

The Corte Madera Chamber of Commerce is searching for volunteers willing to drive local dignitaries around in their convertible vehicles during the Fourth of July parade.

Workers examine a rebar cage being built to serve as a test piling for engineers designing a high-speed rail bridge over the Fresno River and Highway 145 in Madera.