SIERRA NATIONAL FOREST – The Bass Lake Ranger District, Sierra National Forest, is preparing to implement the fall/winter burning program, says District Ranger Denise Tolmie. Projects will consist of three activities: pile burning, broadcast, and underburning. “The objective of these prescribed burns are to reduce fuel loading from recent tree mortality fuel projects within the Wildland Urban Intermix and high ...

CENTRAL SIERRA —  Cal Fire would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2 a.m., daylight savings time ends. When you set your clocks back one hour, please make another change that could save your life — change the battery in your smoke detector. Although smoke detectors are in most homes, many do ...

YOSEMITE — Yosemite National Park invites the public to participate in an event on Wednesday, Nov. 2, to learn about scientific findings related to wilderness use and planning. The workshop will take place at the Garden Terrace room at Yosemite Valley Lodge from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and will present preliminary findings from a series of scientific studies that ...

COARSEGOLD — Firefighters were called out to two separate fires in the early morning hours, one near Yosemite Lakes Park and another just south of Hensley Lake. Just after 12:30 a.m., a young man from Coarsegold was southbound on Road 400 approaching Yosemite Springs Parkway. He fell asleep at the wheel, according to CHP at the scene, drove off the ...

AHWAHNEE — The victim of Friday’s homicide in Ahwahnee has been identified by the Madera County Sheriff’s Office. Dennis Dolan, 68, of Ahwahnee was found unresponsive at his residence in the 41000 block of Road 600 near Highway 49 in Ahwahnee, at around 1:30 a.m. on Friday morning. Craig Anthony Fetty, 28, of Oakhurst and Tiffany Dambrino, 20, also from ...

AHWAHNEE — Sheriff Varney announced this evening that two arrests have been made in connection to yesterday’s murder in Ahwahnee. Craig Anthony Fetty, 28, of Oakhurst and Tiffany Dambrino, 20, also from Oakhurst were arrested late Saturday afternoon. Detectives are continuing the investigation, but at this point Fetty has been arrested for murder and Dambrino has been arrested on another ...

MADERA COUNTY – Crews are on scene of a small vegetation fire burning just north of Hensley Lake. Just after 11 a.m., firefighters responded to reports of a fire along Road 400 just north of Road 603, southwest of Yosemite Lakes Park. A full wildland dispatch was called out, including eight Cal Fire and Madera County engines, two crews out ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY — On Oct. 25, 26, and 27, the Mariposa County Health Department, in coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the California Department of Public Health, will be conducting household surveys in several areas in Mariposa County. Survey teams will conduct random surveys between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. to assess the ...

MADERA — The Clovis woman charged with causing the death of Frederico Nunez Silva while driving intoxicated pleaded guilty today in a Madera Superior Court, to all charges filed by the District Attorney’s Office, including Gross Vehicular Manslaughter, and D.U.I. Causing Injury. Candice Nicole Ooley, 23, was arrested on Friday, May 20, after she crashed into the back of a ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY — The University of California Cooperative Extension Mariposa County will host a Niche Marketing/Grass-Fed Beef meeting on Thursday, Nov. 10, from 1 to 4 p.m. at McCay Hall in Catheys Valley. Tara Schiff, Mariposa County Community Development / Grant Coordinator, will give a presentation about lessons learned from the “Made in Mariposa” campaign and discuss how a similar ...