Madera News

Madera County Superior Court Judge James Oakley ruled last week that a report outlining how Madera County District Attorney Michael Keitz interacts with his staff, will not be released to the public.

A 47-year-old Madera woman was sentenced to four years in prison for acquiring California driver's licenses illegally and then selling them, the U.S. Attorney's Office reported Monday.

Morton's, a yellow and dark green truck, specializes in barbecued and smoked meats.

Nineteen year old Esteven David Rodriguez is wanted for the murder of a 19 year old man in Madera back in April.

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Madera is a long ways from Riverside County, but Riverside County supervisors nevertheless have gone on record opposing the Brown administration's deal with the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians that would allow the tribe to build a casino off Highway 99 in Madera.

A Madera man ran five city blocks trying to flee from rival gang members before being hit by a car and shot in the foot on Sunday near 4th Street and Gateway Drive, police said.

In this Feb. 16, 2011 photo, Carlos Cervantes, 3, is photographed from his bed at Children's Hospital Central California in Madera, Calif.

State officials on Thursday agreed to drop a request to consolidate all lawsuits challenging California's use of voter-approved high-speed rail bonds, allowing a trial seeking to stop their sale to begin later this month Opponents of the $68 billion bullet train project and attorneys for the California High-Speed Rail Authority submitted their ... (more)

In this Feb. 21, 2013 file photo a new inmate housing unit is seen near completion at the Madera County Jail in Madera, Calif.

Fresno's high temperature Monday broke the century mark for the second day in a row, but relief is on the way.

Mother Nature had a record-breaking Mother's Day in the Valley, as temperatures in Fresno soared to 102 degrees, hitting triple digits for the first time this year, according to the National Weather Service in Hanford.

Fresno Police officer Antonio Route is assigned to the Fresno Area Express beat, but a concertgoer might run into him working a detail at the Save Mart Center.

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"Water issues have long been a matter of intense debate in California. As the nation's leading agricultural state, as well as its most populous, California's thirst has become almost unquenchable.

Many Californians know the usual course of "Valley Fever," a soil-borne blight whose medical name is coccidioidomycosis, or "cocci" for short.

The rumor spread like wildfire via phone calls, text messages and social media postings and has persisted now for more than three weeks: Immigration agents are rounding up unauthorized workers in Central California farming communities.

The father of a Madera middle-school student accused of bringing pot-laced Rice Krispies to school is now charged with a variety of felonies.

The Madera County Grand Jury recently criticized the Madera County District Attorney's Office, stating the office has not prosecuted a majority of alleged crimes committed within the Madera County jail, resulting in a "safety issue for officers and inmates." In its recent reports, the Grand Jury also stated that the Madera County Department of ... (more)

It is said that if you ever saw how sausage was made, you would never eat it. And so it was that after watching the proceedings of the State Assembly Organizational Committee in Sacramento last Wednesday I felt sickness in my stomach and disillusionment in my heart.