Madera News

Danny Locke is known as much as a wrangler and horseman as he is recognized as a successful cotton farmer.

Reporting from Madera, Calif. -- You would never mistake Jesse Lopez Jr. for a revolutionary.

Art educator Joan Sharma is this year's judge of the 2009 Reveiller Art exhibit.

Parents seeking to provide outside confidants or mentors for their children will often apply with Big Brothers Big Sisters.

The navel orange on right is brighter in color and has a higher level of natural sugar believed to be caused by natural chilling in short duration, unlike the orange on the left which did not.

Every year, The Madera Tribune creates a list of non-profit agencies and businesses that use volunteer help.

Virtually on the eve of the inauguration of the United States' first African American president, Madera will celebrate its ethnic diversity with the annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Junior Day.

Two Merced-based California Highway Patrol officers helped arrest a Norteno gang member accused of a double homicide in Visalia.

Colder weather is expected in January in both lower and higher elevations of Madera County in 2009.

Keitz to be sworn into office Jan. 8 Madera County's new district attorney, Michael Keitz, 54, will be sworn in Jan.

Madera police arrested one man, but they're still looking for another after a series of drive-by shootings and a high speed chase that led them all the way into Fresno.

The next in a series of storms is forecast to arrive tonight and continue through Wednesday, followed by another rainmaker that is expected to keep the Valley wet though Christmas Day.

Former college basketball player and coach, Charles Rigby, and fellow coaches with staff from the Madera Parks & Community Services held the first youth basketball clinic at the Madera South High East Gym.

The bubble box over this aerial view of the site for the new Madera County Courthouse shows where the five-story courthouse and associated parking structure will be built.

A General Plan Steering Committee meeting in the Frank Bergon Senior Center, 238 S. D St., at 6:30 p.m. Monday will discuss the "Noise," "History/Cultural Resources," and "Sustainability" elements of the city's ...

As holiday preparations come to a finish, gifts are unwrapped and the holiday meal is over, decorations are packed up and put away for another year.

The Cpl. Herbert E. Macon Veterans of Foreign War Post 1981 relocation committee chairman Gary E. Foust addresses the membership about a proposal to buy Memorial Hall and build the club a new meeting hall.

Madera Community College Center students completing the college's nursing program were pinned Thursday at the fifth pinning ceremony.

Madera Elks Lodge members and Jim Salvatore, owner of Al's Distributing, perpare to distribute more than 400 toys in collaboration with the annual Christmas Basket program.

Fundraiser to refurbish church A local church has come up with an unusual way to raise money to refurbish its historic building near downtown Madera.