The summer season has officially started for the Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System (YARTS) The public transit system which runs coach service to Yosemite National Park commenced its summer schedule this week from both Merced and Mariposa along Highway 140 as well as from Sonora and Groveland along Highway 120. Last week, service on the Highway 41 corridor from Fresno ...

Coarsegold- The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), in cooperation with California Highway Patrol, CAL TRANS, Pacific Southwest Research Station / Fresno State University, Private Landowners, and San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, aim to reduce large conflagrative fires and high suppression costs, to the citizens of California, by conducting a prescribed burn along the Highway ...

Madera County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) Releases Health Assessment Focused on the Madera County Homeless Population. MCDPH has published a homeless needs assessment. Key findings from the MCDPH Homeless Assessment: Access and Barriers to Care show that more than 4 in 5 homeless individuals have at least one ongoing health or mental health condition and 1 out of 5 ...

Join The Madera County DA, Sally Moreno For Coffee And Conversation at the Cool Bean Café NORTH FORK – Tomorrow, May 19th from 9 am to 11 am, Madera County DA Sally Moreno will be hosting coffee and conversation with your DA. DA Sally Moreno will be at the Cool Bean Café in Oakhurst to answer questions from the community. ...

COARSEGOLD – Yosemite Drug  will be holding COVID-19 vaccine clinics around the Madera County and Madera County Mountain Communities. The following vaccines are available: Pfizer- Ages 12+, Moderna -Ages 18+, and Johnson and Johnson- Ages18+ The first clinic will be tomorrow, Tuesday May 18, 2021 from 4-6 pm at Hillside Elementary School, 800 Treasure Hills Dr. Madera, CA. 93636 There will also be ...

Madera, CA  – After nearly five months of upgrades to our Surgical Services Department, California Department of Public Health (CDPH) approved Madera Community Hospital’s installation of new autoclaves and sterilizers. The project was started during the COVID-19 pandemic when all elective surgeries were halted in hospitals.  The two new autoclaves, using only steam to disinfect, are located in our central ...

 The Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) has released its 2021 Community Wildfire Prevention Progress for customer and community safety NORTH FORK – We are continuing to evolve our Community Wildfire Safety Program to improve and strengthen our electric system. Keeping customers and communities safe from wildfires and reducing the impact of Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events are our ...

Multi-Agency Efforts Lead to Arrest in Fresno County’s First Murder of 2021 Homicide detectives with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office have arrested 40 year old Brandon Engelman, a.k.a. Milkweed, of Coarsegold. He has been booked into the Fresno County Jail on a charge of murder, which carries a bail of $1 million. He is also facing a kidnapping charge, which ...

For National Wildfire Awareness Month, Nanette Wardle, our Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Manager, asks, when a disaster strikes are you ready? For the past seventy years, John C. Fremont Healthcare District has provided critical emergency and medical care to Mariposa County residents. As the only hospital in the county, we are prepared to address all types of emergencies and disasters. ...

MADERA – On Thursday May 13, 2021 around 6:30pm, Madera County Sheriff’s Detectives from the Madera County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) arrested 19 year old Destinee Annette Harner and 19 year old Nehemiah Everett Dick without incident. Both Harner and Dick were booked into the Madera County Jail. Harner was booked on felony charges of attempted murder and criminal conspiracy. Dick ...