North Fork News

In the rural, low-income community of Fairmead about 10 miles north of Madera, some 800 people rely on a decades-old water pump that could fail at any moment.

Squirrel Cage Theatre Company will bring music, family fun and food to the Mountain Area with its annual "Fall Follies" dinner show Friday and Saturday at North Fork Town Hall.

Called an "uncommon man" by his daughter-in-law Kay Beattie in her book about him, George William Beattie made a difference wherever he went.

William "Bill" Howard Harrison, Fortuna, passed away on Oct. 7 at St. Luke's Manor in Fortuna.

Environmental regulators are accusing a California developer of violating federal clean water laws during the early phases of construction at a stalled housing subdivision in central Idaho.

Mountain deputies are investigating a wave of overnight mailbox bashing in the North Fork area.

If after the blazing days of summer, fall's cooler weather puts you in a contemplative mood, then a roving look into our county's history might be a good way to wile away an approaching weekend.

Plumas County's only wilderness area will be honored Saturday when the Bucks Lake Wilderness celebrates its 25th anniversary.

This week at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, a rare occurrence: Two Tony-Award winning Broadway stars appear in adjacent venues.

A North Fork artist who is part of this weekend's Sierra Art Trails is master boat builder Jim Crockett.

The North Fork Community Mural Committee is working on a second project across the street from Gas 'N Stuff.

Dorrington's famed sugar pine, a behemoth once believed to be the largest in the world, may be brought to the ground by a case of bark beetles.

A Madera County judge has ruled that a key environmental report for a massive housing development near Highway 41 lacks important information, forcing the county to rewrite part of the report and threatening to delay the 5,200-home project.

The Community Action Partnership of Madera County will sponsor a Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Appeals filed by out-of-the-area environment groups against a planned logging project in the Stanislaus National Forest's Mi-Wok Ranger District have been denied by the U.S. Forest Service's regional office and portions of the project will go out to bid later this month, said Jerry Snyder, forest spokesman.

The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded the first construction contract for the Battle Creek Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project the removal of Wildcat Diversion Dam and associated conveyance systems on the North Fork of Battle Creek, located within 5 miles of Manton.

Firefighters were preparing to take a stand on the eastern flank of the Station Fire in the San Gabriel Mountains west of Mount Baldy.

A Madera County tribe's plans for a new casino have been frustrated by the Bush administration's "gross incompetence" in handling Indian business affairs, a key senator charged Thursday.

A raid on a marijuana grow in the Mendocino National Forest, which began Monday and concluded Wednesday afternoon, netted more than 15,000 plants and 118 pounds of processed pot.

The condition of a 16-year-old boy who was shot in the chest with a rifle while target shooting at a North Fork shooting range Wednesday has been upgraded from critical to stable, the Madera County Sheriff's Department said Monday.