Madera News

It's a green light to start building high-speed rail north of Fresno but red tape and legal wrangling will keep crews from turning dirt on the South Valley section any time soon.

Cal Fire reports an unattended campfire is what sparked the Carstens fire near Mariposa.

In the Central Valley - where unemployment averages more than 15%, more than 40% in some cities - the [HSR] project would bring jobs and better connections with the coastal economies.

A single car accident occurred around 7:30 a.m., Monday, June 17 on Raymond Road near River Road .

The Carstens fire in Mariposa County looms behind the lights of Oakhurst on Sunday night, June 16, in a photo provided by reader John-Mark Brix.

State fire officials say the Carstens fire has burned 1 and 1/2 square miles, about six miles northeast of Mariposa along Highway 140, one of the main routes into Yosemite National Park.

The three leaders vying for control of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians - and its $9 million-a-month haul from its Madera County casino - have undeniably different styles.

High-end home furnishings and furniture retailer Restoration Hardware released its fiscal first-quarter earnings results on Thursday after the closing bell.

Company Provides Q2 Guidance of Revenue Growth Between 28% and 30%, Adjusted Diluted EPS of $0.40 to $0.42 Company Increases Fiscal 2013 Guidance to Revenue Growth Between 23% and 27% from Previous Range of 19% to 22%, Adjusted Diluted EPS of $1.41 to $1.47 versus Previous Guidance of $1.29 to $1.37 CORTE MADERA, Calif.-- -- Restoration Hardware ... (more)

A high-profile bill to help the United Farm Workers union secure contracts with growers has hit a roadblock in a California Assembly committee that's ordinarily very friendly to union-sponsored legislation.

Barreling ahead regardless of obstacles blocking the tracks is no way to run a railroad.

Kenny Gatlin, a Caltrans employee, picks up litter along northbound Highway 101 on Alto Hill on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Corte Madera, Calif.

The highest eight-hour ozone peak last week happened Saturday in Sequoia National Park.

Madera County Sheriff John Anderson is asking for the public’s help to locate Pasquale Desantis, 38, who reportedly resides in Madera and Fresno County.

Deputies were serving a search warrant on a home in south Madera on Sunday for a different case when they found the suspect, Esteven Rodriguez, Sheriff John Anderson said at a Monday afternoon news conference.

Even as officials celebrate what they call a "milestone" contract to start building a statewide high-speed train system in the Fresno-Madera area, uncertainty looms in the form of deadlines, environmental rules and opposition lawsuits.

The California bullet train - which is supposed to weave hundreds of miles through two mountain ranges on giant elevated tracks in seismically active areas - is an immense engineering challenge.

In what's arguably the real kickoff to the construction of California's largest ever infrastructure project, members of the state's high speed rail authority on Thursday signed off on the initial $985 million contract for breaking ground this summer.

The County of Madera has established Cooling Centers in Eastern Madera County for times of extreme summer heat.

The board overseeing California's $68 billion high-speed rail project is set to approve a contract to start the first construction work for a bullet train in the Central Valley at its meeting Thursday in Sacramento.