Madera News

ATWATER Lights of Love, the first memorial tree-lighting ceremony to benefit the Hinds Hospice Center for Grief & Healing, will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Fifth Street and Broadway.

Mist rises from an orange grove during freezing weather on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, west of Reedley, Calif.

Police are still looking for the people who shot and killed one person and seriously injured another Wednesday night in Madera.

A truck carrying two men opened fire at a Sheriff’s Deputy early morning on Dec. 3. The search to find the suspects ended at the Days Inn near Avenue 16 and CA-99 at around 2 p.m. The two suspects are now in custody.

Applications can be picked up at either the Sheriff’s main office at 14143 Road 28 in Madera or the Sheriff’s substation in Oakhurst, 48267 Liberty Drive.

A new $10 million solar project in Madera County approved earlier this week will power half of the county government's facilities.

Madera County sheriff's spokeswoman Erica Stuart said deputies arrested three people Wednesday in connection with mail theft after rural mail boxes were broken into.

In another key setback to the California bullet train project, federal regulators have rejected the state's request to exempt a large Central Valley segment of proposed track from a lengthy planning review.

A view of the dining room/bar at the Best Lil' Porkhouse in Corte Madera, Calif.

Two Madera men were taken into custody Tuesday on suspicion of firing as many as 40 shots at a deputy during a high-speed chase near Chowchilla, the Madera County Sheriff's Department said.

Teachers and staff who work in a high priority school district - those with low Academic Performance Index scores - can apply for the agency's Extra Credit Teacher Program which offers down payment assistance in the form of a junior loan, the state housing agency announced on Monday.

The Corte Madera Volunteer Firefighters Association and the Corte Madera Chamber of Commerce will welcome Santa Claus to town with a parade at 3 p.m. Dec. 8. Santa will ride a fire engine through the east side of town, starting at Harbor Drive and Yolo Street, giving out candy canes.

Note: Most newspaper content reprinted here is incomplete and delayed. Want it all? Sooner? You can subscribe to our full print and online editions by calling 674-4207 and get both editions for the price of one! Esteban Ramirez of Madera was arrested on or about Nov. 25 in Riverside County on suspicion of felony theft, narcotics, unknown.

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 17, 2013, a passenger waits to board an Amtrak California train in Madera, Calif.

A sweep by probation officers and Madera County sheriff's deputies in the Oakhurst area Wednesday ended with four people arrested, the sheriff's department said.

A Valley congressman wants a government watchdog agency to take a second look at grant agreements for more than $3 billion in federal stimulus and transportation funds for California's high-speed rail project.

But there are those who are either ailing right now or who will suffer some accident or injury over the holidays and will be in need of our help.

A small group of individuals determined to stop California's high-speed rail project tried to convince Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael P. Kenny that "it would be illegal to proceed with construction of the high-speed rail project."

Three Madera residents who police accuse of stealing copper wire and nearly stripping one side of a barn clean of aluminum siding are behind bars.

Rodolfo Tello Garza of Madera was given a life sentence Friday for felony forcible sexual assault on a child under the age of 14 according to Madera County District Attorney Michael R. Keitz.