Visalia Metro News

Dog lover Valinda Marston of Visalia thinks there's a time to take a pet to the veterinarian and a time to do something else.

Investigators claim Rigoberto Reyes and Jose Felix opened fire on another car early this morning at Ferguson and Giddings in Visalia.

The Piute fire continues to rage Wednesday morning in the mountains above Lake Isabella.

A man suspected of shoplifting from a Porterville supermarket is accused of trying to run over an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer who tried to stop him.

A new statewide report says seven of California's 10 unhealthiest counties are in the San Joaquin Valley.

The Tulare County Coroner's Office has identified that county's latest drowning victim.

Martin Louis "Louie" Aguilera, known for his daily walks throughout Tulare and as a former grand marshal of the Children's Christmas Parade, continued to recover in the hospital a day after being hit by a car.

The man shot and killed Thursday in a residential area of Lindsay was from Porterville.

With July 4 a week away, many in Tulare County are anxious to begin buying fireworks.

Exeter went back in time Saturday. The Central Valley Harness Association brought their horse-drawn vehicles into Exeter for a tour of the town's murals.

A Visalia woman is California's first confirmed human case of West Nile virus of 2008.

The Yakima Herald-Republic recently hired an assistant city editor and a copy editor, and brought in a summer intern.

' One woman from Visalia is Tulare County and the state of California's first confirmed human case of West Nile Virus of 2008.

More than 100 law enforcement officers took to the streets of Porterville and surrounding communities today going after the leaders of the city's largest street gang.

PORTERVILLE, Calif. - Marie Bilobran Vickey died on March 14, 2008. Born in New Jersey, Marie worked at an atomic bomb plant, a soldiers dance club during the war, and then traveled to Europe.

California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today joined the Porterville Police Department in announcing a major takedown of the Varrio Central Poros, a brutal criminal street gang that has "terrorized" the ...

An airline hoping to serve the San Joaquin Valley cities of Visalia and Merced is seeking more federal money to get its service off the ground.

A fast-spreading brush fire moving along the Tule River banks on East Springville Drive prompted dozens of neighbors to work together to spare their homes from the fire this afternoon.

In an effort to help drought-stricken farmers, Gov. Schwarzenegger on Thursday proclaimed a water emergency in nine Central Valley counties.

Two Porterville men have been arrested on suspicion of possession, transportation and distribution of methamphetamine along with other drug-related charges, Porterville police reported.