Porterville News

A 32-year-old Porterville man shot himself in the head just after midnight Sunday when the gun he was handling discharged, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department said.

The crash happened at Westfield Avenue and Westwood Street about 5:15 a.m. when 20-year-old Juan Ahumada ran a stop sign as he headed north.

Anne Magana, manager of the Consolidated Waste Management Authority in Tulare County, demonstrates how to use a medical sharps disposal kiosk on Wednesday, July 2, 2014.

The retired barber washed his tractor every night and parked it in the garage, a source of gentle amusement to the veteran growers around him.

Fireworks displays, like this one at the Freedom Festival in Porterville, Calif., are beautiful but the sound is terrifying for pets.

Porterville, California ambient experimental post-rock and spoken-word band Hotel Books have signed with Ohio independent label InVogue Records .

Carmen Almanza gets a bucket of water to flush her toilet. The well went dry at the Almanza home in April.

Porterville City Council Member Pete McCracken -- who loved dancing and fine food -- died Saturday at Sierra View District Hospital in Porterville.

Violence in Iraq is helping to make gasoline in the U.S. more expensive, depriving drivers of the usual price break between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July.

Local youth groups, churches, and civic clubs can raise funds for their organizations by pre-selling carnival wristbands for the Tulare County Fair.

A man found dead on the side of a road at the Tule River Indian Reservation has been identified as Matthew Alfonso Eredia of Porterville, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.

The crash happened about 2 p.m. Tuesday. The CHP said Diana Irene Lombardi, 67, was driving a Honda north on Highway 65 when Ruperto Magallon, 44, of Porterville, heading west in a Dodge on Avenue 208, failed to yield for a stop sign at the highway and drove into Lombardi's path.

After selling handmade sweets for more than two decades, Stafford's Famous Chocolates took their rightful place as a fierce Santa Barbara chocolate competitor by winning the people's choice award at the Rape Crisis Center's annual Chocolate de Vine fundraiser earlier this year.