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MADERA — Work is underway for a new Madera County Sheriff's Office headquarters — an upgrade lauded as moving the department forward by "leaps and bounds." Read comments

Work is now underway for a new Madera County Sheriff’s Office headquarters — an upgrade lauded as moving the department forward by “leaps and bounds.” Read comments

The day Peace Corps volunteer Matt Vargas had to leave Liberia was the worst day of his life. Read comments

Yosemite National Park announced that it closed Tioga Road and Glacier Point Road at 6 p.m. Friday. Read comments

The woman’s hands worked with a learned precision, flattening a rounded slab of dough with her fingertips into the form of a person. Read comments

On a Halloween Friday, Heald College in Fresno hoped to put its name in the Guinness Book of World Records for Most People Dressed as a Minion in One Place at One Time. The characters are from the movie "Despicable Me." Guinness won't have to determine if the old record was broken; up til Friday, the category didn't exist. Read comments

The two-month renovation of Family HealthCare Network’s downtown Visalia center is done and it will reopen Saturday for walk-in patients. Read comments

State leaders announced Friday that more than $200 million in greenhouse gases cap-and-trade money would be invested in the census tracts of California’s most disadvantaged communities — about 20% of which are in the San Joaquin Valley. Read comments

Firefighters battled a brush fire Friday night off Friant Road, near the Willow Avenue intersection and adjacent to the San Joaquin River. Read comments

A pedestrian was reportedly struck Thursday night on southbound Highway 41 near the Shaw Avenue exit, according to the California Highway Patrol. Read comments