MADERA — The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases so far in Madera County still stands at 33. No new cases were reported on Monday or today. In their Tuesday update, county health officials said they are currently still monitoring 20 active COVID-19 cases — and an additional 63 home-isolating individuals for signs of the coronavirus. Madera County Department of ...

MADERA — Late Saturday afternoon, Madera County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) officials said there had been no new cases over the past 24 hours. MCDPH reported the two latest confirmed local cases of the COVID-19 on Friday. Those cases — a man and a woman both in their 40s — bring the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases so ...

MADERA — Madera County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) reported late Thursday that another 24 hours had passed without a new confirmed case of COVID-19 in the county. “No new cases – great news – but please stay the course,” said MCDPH Director Sara Bosse. Bosse added that she does not believe the county has seen the “peak” of cases ...

MADERA — County health officials are currently monitoring 77 individuals for signs of the coronavirus. But for the past four days, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases countywide has remained at 30. On Wednesday afternoon, Madera County Department of Public Health officials again reported “no new local cases” over the past 24 hours. Only one person, a man in ...

MADERA — County health officials are currently monitoring 80 individuals locally for signs of the coronavirus. But for the past three days, the total number of confirmed cases countywide has remained at 30. Statewide as of 7 a.m. Wednesday, there were 17,620 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with the death toll now standing at 450. On Tuesday, county health officials again reported ...

MADERA — County health officials are currently monitoring 80 individuals locally for signs of the coronavirus. But for the past several days, the total number of confirmed cases countywide has remained at 30. Again on Tuesday afternoon, county health officials reported “no new local cases” of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours. Tuesday’s report makes three days in a row ...

COARSEGOLD — Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino will become an official food distribution center. The effort to temporarily re-purpose operations at the resort is meant “to help Madera County residents who find themselves in need,” resort officials announced Wednesday morning. The food pick-up site is located at the casino’s open-air porte cochere, located at 711 Lucky ...

FRESNO — Fresno Mayor Lee Brand has issued an emergency “shelter-in-place” order starting at midnight tonight and lasting through March 31. In issuing the unprecedented executive order to the city’s more than 500,000 residents, Brand said, “We are literally making life and death decisions here.” “The intent of this order is to ensure the maximum number of people self-isolate in ...

MARIPOSA — Yosemite National Park officials together with the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office announced this morning that Highway 140 near the Ferguson Fire burn scar will close today at 12:30 pm. Authorities said the road would “be closed west of Yosemite National Park from the top of Briceburg Grade to Cedar Lodge.” This preemptive closure is due to heavy rain ...

MADERA — Because of increasing concern about the threat of continued community spread of the coronavirus, schools across Madera County have been directed to close immediately, according to an order issued late Friday afternoon by the Madera County Department of Health. The closure notice, which was announced shortly before 6 p.m. Friday by Madera County Director of Public Health Sara ...