A fire that started in vegetation at the intersection of Roads 415 and 416 has been stopped just short of 5 acres. Crews were called out at 12:35 p.m. Sept. 11, to the “Gold Fire,” about 4 miles southwest of Coarsegold. It was burning on a fairly steep slope, but crews got a line around it quickly and helicopter water ...

The Oakhurst Community Center was awash with color, style and nostalgia on Saturday as the 10th Annual “Run for the Gold” Classic Car show returned to Oakhurst, sponsored by the Sierra Oakhurst Kiwanis Club.

For those of you looking forward to the nice, straight road between O’Neals and North Fork with the completion of the Road 200 project, there will still be one little snag in your commute. The bridge over Fine Gold Creek is not part of the project. “It’s unfortunate that we didn’t have the funding needed to include the bridge replacement ...

Cal Fire crews from the San Diego area have been keeping busy during their detail to the mountain area. Five engines and a strike team leader from the southern end of the state have been stationed around the Eastern Madera and Mariposa County area since Monday, Aug. 24, and have had plenty to do. They were hard at work Tuesday, ...

My name is Amanda, I have Interstitial Cystitis, but Interstitial Cystitis doesn’t have ME. Once I thought that. I would like to take this opportunity to share my story with you, on my journey through diagnosis and my daily life with “IC”. My diagnosis of Interstitial Cystitis is much like the story of millions of other women across the United ...

OAKHURST – Tawney Jeffries, 44 of Oakhurst, was arrested on Friday, Aug. 31, and charged with felony DUI while causing injuries to others. According to the CHP report, Jeffries, who was impaired by alcohol, was traveling westbound on Road 426 just past Elliott Road at 6:25 p.m. last Friday, when she lost control of her 2006 Dodge Caravan. After swerving ...

What started as a day of celebration and a motorcycle ride to the mountains ended with two people being transported to the hospital. Augie, 52, and Connie Colmenero, 42, of Fresno, along with his brother Joseph and five others, headed for the mountains on their Harleys on Monday, for a holiday weekend ride. “We came up to enjoy the day, ...

OAKHURST – A head-on collision on Road 426 in Oakhurst on Friday, Aug.31, resulted to injuries to three children and two adults. All were transported to Fresno area hospitals, and one young girl was air-lifted by Skylife to Community Regional Medical Center. A person in the area who heard the accident called it in at 6:25 p.m. California Highway Patrol, ...

Art’s Stagecoach Mini Storage was the scene of a structure fire this morning, that so far has involved nine storage units at the facility on Greenwood Way in Oakhurst.

Park officials close tent cabins indefinitely while investigation continues CURRY VILLAGE – Once again the Hantavirus has been identified in someone who stayed in the “Signature Cabins” of the Boystown area of Curry Village in Yosemite National Park, prompting park officials to close the cabins where five of the six infections occured. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has ...