Tulare News

After a more than a decade of collaboration culminating with 95 million boxes of clementines shipped in 2012-13, Sun Pacific and Paramount Citrus are parting ways.

Tours were advertised as a one-time event just for the day and no plans for more, so the line was long.

Amanda Alarcon Banks likes to spend her afternoons crawling on her stomach trying to avoid touching dangling wires carrying live electrical current.

The Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District has notified the Fresno County Department of Public Health of the positive test results provided by the State's laboratory at UC Davis.

A major-injury crash involving a big rig Wednesday morning has closed a southbound lane of Highway 99 south of Tulare, the California Highway Patrol said.

In a move to give more residents access to the Tulare County Board of Supervisors, the first of several night meetings scheduled in different supervisorial districts will be held tonight.

This was his first taste of the blues and listening to it he became hooked on the sound that would shape a career that went from playing San Francisco Bay Area clubs in the 1960s to the fabled group Canned Heat in the '80s, to touring the states, Europe and others locales around the world with his own band.

Amanda Alarcon Banks likes to spend her afternoons crawling on her stomach trying to avoid touching dangling wires carrying live electrical current.

The Tulare County Sheriff's Department arrested eight Norteno gang members involved in a string of home-invasion robberies since October, Sheriff Bill Wittman said Wednesday.

By all means Mike Olmos is a native of Porterville. Now, he will head up the largest city in Tulare County.

A lost Purple Heart is now back where it belongs... with the family of the soldier who earned it.

When an envelope arrives in the mail at Congregation Beit Shalom synagogue in Visalia, member Cynthia Fischer can tell what's inside.

A lost Purple Heart medal is headed back to its rightful owner. It was found in a Tulare pawn shop six years ago.

Olmos has been the Visalia's assistant city manager for more than seven years. After reviewing options for filling the vacancy with the upcoming retirement of current City Manager Steve Salomon this fall, the council determined it was in the best interest of the city to give first consideration to Olmos.

Caltrans announced the bridge would be closed in both directions beginning May 5 and continuing through May 10.

Mitchell Elementary School has received the Title I Academic Achievement Award, the only school in Merced County so honored this year.

Richard Nunes, Jr., former Assistant Vice President is now a Vice President for Buckman-Mitchell. Richard joined Buckman-Mitchell in 2002 and specializes in Property & Liability coverage for mid-to-large sized accounts with a focus on Agribusiness accounts.

A man who reportedly fled when a Tulare police officer tried to pull him over Monday afternoon was shot by a police officer following a car chase that ended west of Strathmore.

A Tulare county school was placed on lock-down after Tulare police shot a man who led them on a high-speed chase.

The driver did not stop when the officer tried to pull him over, police said. The officer followed the vehicle out of the city and saw items being thrown out, Tulare Sgt.