Porterville News

Held were Jeannie Chaney, 57, and Dave Easlon, 56, who were booked into the Tulare County Main Jail.

The Porterville Police Department's Special Investigations Unit went to investigate reports of suspicious activity occurring at a local residential mobile home park.

Teacher Robert Isquierdo Jr. grew up in the rural Tulare County town of London and wants his old community to have a library — even if he has to start one himself, book by book.

Police in central California have arrested a man and woman after finding a pipe bomb, illegal explosive materials, plus marijuana and methamphetamine in their home.

Porterville police said the man was driving on Highway 65, south of Highway 190, when he crashed.

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."

Tulare County's unemployment rate in January was 15.2 percent compared to 16.6 percent in January 2013 Employment Development Department reports.

National dunk champions Young Hollywood and Airdogg of the West Coast Dreamers will host a charity basketball game Saturday in Visalia to benefit the family of Jeremy Meyst, a Tulare County Sheriff's Department correctional deputy who died in an on-duty accident last year.

Community Services Employment Training is adding locations in the county to provide tax services in communities that include Exeter, Goshen and Earlimart.

Restaurante Y Taqueria Jalisco 89 Observed lack of Food Safety Certificate, Observed soap and towels at handwash sink lacking soap and towels in dispenser.

Grower Brent Doyel held up a shriveled minneola - evidence from the first of two natural disasters at his citrus orchards this season.

A 27-year-old man from Merced died Saturday morning after losing control of his vehicle just north of Porterville, the California Highway Patrol said.

Nearly 13 years after his father died in a Porterville nursing home, Charles Rabotinsky, an iron worker from Covina, got the chance to say good-bye.

Porterville-based Bank of the Sierra this week unveiled a new corporate logo and changes to its website designed to make online banking easier.

The Woodville landfill will close in June, a $1 million cost-saving move for the county that will mainly affect Tulare, Lindsay and unincorporated parts of the county near the site.

Mission Valley Elementary sixth grader Eileen Xue spelled "sassafras" and "halal" consecutively to win the Tulare County Spelling Championship Wednesday at the Visalia Convention Center.

Special guest musicians Alex Russell and Dave Talbott will lead worship in the morning services Sunday, March 16 at Hillside Community Church in Porterville.

Some water systems previously overseen by the county will be overseen by the state starting July 1. Residents can expect to learn how the change will take place, what the change means for residents, and the types of water systems affected.

The Porterville Library is so much fun, with all the activities planned out each and every month; it is a really big deal for parents, children, and all caregivers, and just when you think they could not over exceed, they did! Do you want to meet the Cat in Hat? I know I sure do, and you can too, but before I tell you where; let me tell you why Cat ... (more)

After weeks of speculation on how much water from Millerton Lake might be released this year to South Valley farmers and communities that depend on it, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation made its announcement on Friday.