PG&E and General Motors Collaborate on Pilot to Reimagine Use of Electric Vehicles as Backup Power Sources for Customers  SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and DETROIT, Mich. — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and General Motors (GM) today announced a breakthrough collaboration to pilot the use of GM electric vehicles (EVs) as on-demand power sources for homes in PG&E’s service area. ...

Textured Concrete Crosswalk Construction Will be Transferred to Repaving Project MARIPOSA – The textured concrete crosswalk construction that was to take place in 2022 will be transferred to the re-paving project scheduled in 2023 on Route 140 in Mariposa County. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will complete construction of a pedestrian ramp that meets Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) ...

The Red Carpet Premiere of the Locally made film “The Girl on the Mountain” will be held at Yosemite Cinema on March 13th at 7pm. OAKHURST – Local director, Matt Sconce, who shot the entire movie in Madera County along with the child lead who is played by local talent Makenzie Sconce took place in areas surrounding Oakhurst and the ...

Help Promote Safety by Planting the Right Tree in the Right Place as Part of California Arbor Week  SAN FRANCISCO – PG&E offers resources for  California Arbor Week, March 7-14, for the whole family. Planting the right tree in the right location helps promote fire safety, natural gas safety, reduces power outages and ensures beauty for years to come. That’s ...

Tuesday March 8th, is the 35th Annual Kids Day Benefiting Valley Children’s Hospital MADERA –  Protecting the health and well-being of our 8,000 volunteers – and the tens of thousands of donors – continues to be Valley Children’s top priority. So for the third year in a row, Kids Day will be a digital event. Since 1988, Kids Day has ...

North Fork Elementary and Rivergold Elementary win the Inaugural Madera County Battle of the Books. MADERA COUNTY – The Courageous Cougars from North Fork Elementary School won the first ever Battle of the Books 3rd-4th grade competition and the Golden Books from Rivergold Elementary was named champion for the 5th-6th grade competition. The inaugural event saw three schools, five teams, ...

OAKHURST – New photos of Eben Hammond – a life lost too soon. Eben Hammond, we’ll miss you forever–and we’ll never forget. It’s been: 20,563,200 seconds 342,720 minutes 5712 hours 238 days 34 weeks 65.21% of a common year (365 days) It’s been much too long for the person who took your life to not come forward and own up ...

Tyler succeeds Thomas Porter, who retired in December of 2021 SACRAMENTO – Governor Newsom appoints Joe Tyler as the 22nd CAL FIRE Director in the Department’s 137-year history. Joe Tyler will lead CAL FIRE, California’s statewide fire agency overseeing an appropriated budget of $3.7 billion and more than 9,600 civilian and uniformed staff who responded to more than 535,000 emergencies ...

Will match $200 thousand in employee and physician donations and calls on other health care organizations to join the effort  OAKLAND, Calif. — Kaiser Permanente has launched an employee and physician giving campaign to help with the urgent Ukrainian refugee crisis for physicians and employees who wish to personally support organizations helping with the relief effort, providing refugees with food, ...

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES – The National Weather Service, Hanford Office, has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for our communities beginning today through Sunday. The advisory began at 5:53 AM PST Fri Mar 4 2022, for the following Mountain Communities – Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-South End of the Lower Sierra-San Joaquin River Canyon-Piute Walker Basin-Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish ...