MARIPOSA COUNTY – Firefighters held the line overnight on the Hunters Fire, still being reported at 1,300 acres and 20% containment. The fire started on Monday afternoon near Lake McClure just west of Highway 49 in Mariposa County. There are 478 personnel currently assigned to the fire, and two unoccupied residences and one outbuilding have been destroyed. One hundred more ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY – The Hunters Fire, which started yesterday afternoon at 3:33 p.m. in Mariposa County has now grown to 1,300 acres, and is still at just 20% containment. The fire is burning just west of Highway 49 near Lake McClure, between Mariposa and Coulterville. The blaze began as a structure fire on Monday, May 26, and quickly spread into ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY – The Hunters Fire, burning just west of Highway 49 near Lake McClure, has now grown to 900 acres with 20% containment. The blaze began as a structure fire at 3:33 p.m. on Monday, May 26, and quickly spread into surrounding vegetation. The fire is burning in rolling hills on the south shore of the lake and nearly ...

HUNTERS VALLEY – A 500 acre fire is burning in the Hunters Valley area of Mariposa County near Lake McClure just west of Highway 49. Mandatory evacuation orders are now in place for all of Hunters Valley Road to Bear Valley Road, including Hunter’s Valley access road and Detwiler Road.

NORTH FORK – Chawanakee Unified School District will be bidding a fond farewell to 11 teachers and employees this week, all of whom are retiring after many years of dedicated service. On Saturday, May 31, these educators and staff will be honored during a retirement dinner at North Fork School’s Kennedy Hall at 5 p.m. If one of these teachers ...

BASS LAKE – A single-vehicle crash at Bass Lake on Thursday, May 22, turned into an hour-long search for the driver who bailed, and was followed by an arrest for felony DUI. A group from Fresno was camping at Recreation Point when they decided to take a drive on Road 432 along the north shore of the lake.

OAKHURST – On Monday, June 2, Adventist Health / Central Valley Network is opening a clinic in Oakhurst after taking over Urgent Care and the Rural Health Clinic. To prepare for the transition, the clinic will close for five days beginning May 28 and reopen on June 2 under the new ownership. The clinic will then be open seven days ...

OAKHURST – Traffic was slowed to one lane for nearly 90 minutes this afternoon as a single vehicle accident was cleared from Highway 41 just north of the Cedar Valley turnoff. Just after 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, an Ahwahnee man was headed south on Highway 41 in a contractor’s pickup when he says he came around a corner ...

MADERA COUNTY – An Oakhurst woman found guilty of beating a puppy in August of 2012 has been sentenced to two years behind bars. Last week, Janice Mossman Aguilar, 41, of Oakhurst, was sentenced to county jail for violating the terms of her probation, previously ordered by the Sierra Division of the Madera Superior Court at Bass Lake, according to ...

FRESNO — Today a federal grand jury indicted the man alleged to be responsible for pipe bombs found at a Chowchilla Shell Gas Station on March 28, and at the Crossroads Christian School in Madera on May 4, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.