Coarsegold News

A Facebook picture posting of a Nevada woman wanted on warrants for prostitution in three counties led to her arrest in Coarsegold on Friday, the Madera County Sheriff's Department said.

A Nevada woman wanted in Long Beach, San Bernardino and San Diego is no longer a fugitive after someone spots her photo on Facebook.

For one family, descendants of the last Chukchansi chief, Chief Hawa and his daughter Princess Melliot, being Chukchansi has always been a way of life.

A woman standing in the middle of Highway 41, north of Madera Ranchos, was hit by a passing motorist.

CAL FIRE is closing the Air Attack base at the Fresno Airport. That's where a tanker is based that drops fire retardant on wildfires, especially in areas that are hard to reach.

Just before 9:00 p.m. Thursday night, a Madera County Sheriff's deputy responded to complaints about two women seen staggering at a bar in Coarsegold, then trying to get into a car parked nearby.

Shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday, a mountain deputy responded to a call about two women seen staggering from a Coarsegold bar and trying to get into a car parked nearby, said sheriff's spokeswoman Erica Stuart.

Madera County Supervisor Tom Wheeler and more than 40 Mountain Area residents gathered at Yosemite Lakes Park Clubhouse last Thursday for the supervisor's first town hall meeting of the year and the first in YLP since redistricting made the entire community part of Wheeler's district.