NORTH FORK – A drive home from Atascadero ended with a trip to the hospital for a North Fork woman on Saturday. Just after 1 p.m. on Feb. 1, Delores Haddon, 75, was just a mile or two from home when she crashed her nearly-new Subaru Outback in front of Hillside Baptist Church. But luck was actually on her side.

NORTH FORK – Would you like to write a story or a novel, and don’t know how to start? Friends of the North Fork Library have something just for you. Every Wednesday from Feb. 19 to Mar. 26, at 6 p.m., the Friends are sponsoring a class that will show you how to write a compelling beginning to your story ...

EASTERN MADERA COUNTY – Due to the recent rainfall, CAL FIRE has lifted the burn suspension for the State Responsibility Area within Eastern Madera County as of 12 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30. Hazard reduction burning in Eastern Madera County will be allowed with a valid San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District permit. The following guidelines are required when ...

Letter to the Editor from Tami Michel Thanks to your support, the American Cancer Society is leading the way in the fight to end cancer, from discovering lifesaving cancer breakthroughs to helping people with cancer receive the support and resources they need to get well and stay well. Every year, the Society provides more than 16,500 cancer patients rides from ...

MADERA COUNTY – Sheriff John Anderson has announced the successful completion of another Operation Sweep, conducted Wednesday, Jan. 29, in Eastern Madera County. Sheriff’s deputies teamed up with agents from State Parole and the Madera County Probation Department early yesterday morning, completing this month’s operation shortly after 3 p.m.

NORTH FORK – A fire that threatened a home near North Fork today was another reminder of just how dry conditions are. A homeowner on Wild Rose Lane, just off Douglas Ranger Station Road, did what she would normally do in a normal winter – she took her woodstove ashes and dumped them on the ground out by the pen ...

MARIPOSA – A head-on collision on Highway 140 just north of Mariposa has resulted in the death of a Mariposa man. At 3:44 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28, Stephen Ward Wells, Jr., 78, from Mariposa, was westbound on Highway 140 in a 2000 Ford Explorer just west of Grosjean Road when, for unknown reasons, he allowed his vehicle drift into ...

MADERA COUNTY – The Board of Supervisors today voted unanimously to declare a local drought emergency in Madera County, following Governor Brown declaration of a statewide emergency on Jan. 17. The resolution will allow the County to apply for state and federal assistance in dealing with the economic hardships expected to result from the ongoing drought.

MADERA COUNTY – The trial of Kenneth Jackson and Allison Waterman on arson and conspiracy charges got underway today in Madera County Superior Court. Both have been behind bars awaiting trial for over six months. Jackson and Waterman were arrested on June 25, 2013, after dozens of suspicious fires in the Yosemite Lakes Park (YLP) community of Coarsegold.

Trio Also Faces Arson Charges for Setting Fire COARSEGOLD – Three Coarsegold teenagers were arrested late last night after vandalizing the Yosemite Lakes Park Clubhouse over the weekend, and setting fire to stolen property. The three teenagers, one age 14, the other two age 16, were booked into Madera County Juvenile Hall on multiple felony charges, including commercial burglary, felony ...