Chowchilla News

A 28-year-old Chowchilla man died after being electrocuted by downed power lines following a crash.

California corrections officials are temporarily halting a conversion of Chowchilla's Valley State Prison for Women into a men's facility.It's welcome news in the city, which is waging a legal battle over the project in Madera County Superior Court.The Merced Sun-Star reported Thursday that tension concerning the planned conversion heightened after ... (more)

California corrections officials are temporarily halting a conversion of Chowchilla's Valley State Prison for Women into a men's facility.

One of the two women's prisons in Chowchilla is changing to a men's prison. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Friday that Valley State Prison for Women will soon house low- and medium-security male inmates.

The California State Auditor reported Tuesday that the California High-Speed Rail Authority' s "funding situation has become increasingly risky." That assessment, which the authority disputed, came just a week after Gov.

Kathleen Sierra leads a pack of preschoolers over to a 13-foot-tall fossil cast of a Columbian mammoth.

The abrupt departure of leadership in California's High Speed Rail project has many asking if it will ever become reality.