OAKHURST – A local business was hit with a burglary on Saturday, June 13, as a brazen thief smashed the glass entrance and quickly swiped nearly $2000 worth of goods at Oakhurst Computers. Owner Scott Cockerham has the entire incident recorded on tape from one of eight cameras in a ten camera security system he uses to monitor the location ...

COARSEGOLD – A single vehicle accident on Highway 41 has claimed the life of a 66-year-old Coarsegold man. Just before 2 p.m. on Monday, June 15, the driver was northbound in a Ford F-150 pickup at an unknown rate of speed near Mecca Lane south of Coarsegold, when he traveled off the right hand shoulder and up an embankment. The ...

MADERA COUNTY – A day of training for Search & Rescue personnel and dog teams turned into the real thing Saturday afternoon when a 12-year-old autistic boy went missing in the Sierra National Forest just south of Shuteye Peak. A group of amateur radio operators were spending the day on a geocaching project about 15 miles north of North Fork ...

BASS LAKE – One young driver escaped serious injury this evening when the car she was driving ended up down an embankment after hitting a tree near Bass Lake Heights. Hailey Green, 19, of Oakhurst, was eastbound on Road 426 at about 5:55 p.m., approaching the Forks Turnoff at Road 222.

OAKHURST – After sitting through long delays for the fire in O’Neals, motorists had another traffic snarl at the top of Deadwood on Highway 41 just south of Oakhurst. At about 4 p.m., a 35-year-old female driver rolled her Chevy HHR when, she told CHP, she tried to avoid running into the back of a car stopped to turn left ...

MARIPOSA – On Saturday, May 30, a Mariposa County resident reported to the Sheriff’s Office that several items had been taken from their property. The resident indicated to responding deputies they had hired a house sitter to stay in their home while on vacation for 15 days.

BASS LAKE – After 12 hours of searching, crews have located Sergio Valdovinos, who had been unaccounted for since Friday evening, and the Madera County Sheriff’s Office is happy to report that he is okay. Madera County Search & Rescue and Madera County Sheriff’s deputies had been searching for 29-year-old Sergio Manuel Valdovinos in ‪‎the Bass Lake‬ area.

NORTH FORK – Two groups of motorcycle riders out to raise money for their separate causes had their day interupted on Saturday when two of their numbers collided just south of North Fork. Galen Kumataka, 59, of Fresno, was part of a group headed south out of town on Road 200, just past the Road 222 cutoff, when he lost ...

NORTH FORK – Several residents of the North Fork area had a bit more excitement than they bargained for yesterday afternoon when they found a wanted fugitive hiding under one of their houses. Richard Keg, who lives just off Road 221, says he learned about the wanted man from sheriff’s deputies who were searching the area when he returned home ...

NORTH FORK – A three vehicle accident on Road 200 just east of the Bass Fork Minit Market reduced traffic to one lane for nearly two hours, but no one was seriously injured. At about 2:10 p.m. on Thursday, May 28, Paula Dickison was stopped in the roadway eastbound, in a Honda del Sol, waiting for oncoming traffic so she ...