Chowchilla News

Get the Latest CBS47 News Update from Friday Afternoon, November 6th. Family and friends of a Merced soldier killed in Iraq will be saying their final good byes this weekend.

Seven of the 23 Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indian Community Grants, totaling $202,240, will be presented to organizations in Eastern Madera County.

Leading civil rights organizations next week will bring prison experts and advocates to Modesto for a two-day summit on how to reintegrate the state's prison population.

Kudos, to the organizers and sponsors that worked very hard to keep the flame alive and celebrate Peace Day on October 17, 2009 at the Chowchilla State Valley Prison for Women.

District 2 Supervisor Vern Moss has announced he is opening a satellite office in the City of Chowchilla.

A San Diego-area solar-power company is cultivating some new customers in the San Joaquin Valley: farmers looking to slash their utility bills.

A pair of solar farms proposed for the Panoche Hills of western Fresno County and eastern San Benito County could become the biggest installations of their kind in the world.

A 19-year-old Chowchilla woman was hospitalized with major injuries Thursday after her car crashed near Le Grand.

Widespread damages and power outages resulted from this first storm of the fall season.

Merced leaders and local residents Thursday night blasted alternative high-speed rail routes from San Jose to Merced because they would interfere with farms or neighborhoods.

Ron D. Moore Sr. is credited as R.D. Moore on "The Chopper Caper" , the novel he co-wrote with George Dorsey.

The letter Oct. 30 by Mike Prandini of the building industry is not telling the truth about Proposition 90.

A private plane landed in a field Wednesday afternoon two miles south of the Chowchilla airport, the Madera County Sheriff's Department said.

Celebrate the arrival of fall and autumn produce with these photos of the fresh apples, juicy pears and ripe persimmons that have reappeared at the Santa Monica farmers market this season.

Fresno County, CA- A Chowchilla carnival ride operator, who worked most recently at the Caruthers Fair has been arrested.

Several piercing blasts from an air horn Thursday evening heralded the historic release of water from Millerton Lake for the eventual restoration of the San Joaquin River.

The family of a pregnant woman killed in a DUI hit-and-run collision in February that also claimed the life of her unborn son is seeking damages from the driver and her husband, court records show.

Susan Atkins, the Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer who lost her last chance at parole this month, died Thursday at the women's prison in Chowchilla , state corrections officials said.

Minturn Huller, a premier almond huller and sheller for over 260 almond growers in Central Valley, and Cenergy Power, a solar developer with market-leading solar solutions, have begun construction on a 540kW solar system for the Huller's primary hulling facility.

I was driving on SR-99 northbound, between Chowchilla and Merced, when I happened up this mini tornado which had formed in a dry agricultural field and caught it on my cell phone.