SF News Inland Lake In Central California, Reappearing After Decades, Could Be Harbinger of Wet Seasons to Come Tulare Lake, which used to have ferries going across it and was reportedly four times the size of Lake Tahoe, reemerged this winter in Tulare and Kings Counties, swamping farmland that has been in use for decades.
SF News 26 Arrested In Central Valley Gang Sweep Linked to January Massacre of Family Authorities arrested 26 individuals and seized guns and drugs during a major gang crackdown operation involving 17 law enforcement agencies, following the allegedly gang-related killing of six people, mostly family members, in a home in Goshen.
SF News Two Arrests Made In Central Valley Massacre That Killed Six On Friday morning, the sheriff of Tulare County announced that two suspects had been arrested, one amid a gunfight, in connection with the January 16 massacre in Goshen in which a family of six were murdered.
SF News Central Valley Portion of High-Speed Rail Gets Funded In New State Budget The political wrangling has finally ended, and the last $4.2 billion in the state's high-speed rail bond funding is being spent on the rail system in the newly approved state budget.
SF News San Francisco Man Arrested After Alleged Crime Spree That Ended With Murder of Truck Driver In Central Valley A 21-year-old San Francisco man is in custody after a truck driver was found fatally stabbed over the weekend at a remote gas station along I-5, and the suspect has been tied to multiple crimes including one Friday night in Oakland.
SF News 50 Alleged Norteño Gang Members Arrested In Stockton, Drugs and Guns Seized Following a spike in violence and a three-month joint investigation by multiple state and local law enforcement agencies, 50 people were arrested this week in Stockton who are believed to be part of the notorious Norteño street gang.
SF News Central Valley Water Crisis Leaves Nearly 1.5 Million Without Clean Water If you hear someone complain that ”Flint still doesn’t have clean water,” there is a far larger water crisis right here at home, where 1.5 million Californians can’t drink or bathe in their water.
SF News Cows Dying In Droves In Record-Breaking Central Valley Heatwave For San Franciscans, the relative heatwave of this summer simply means “shorts weather” for big holidays like July 4, some interesting heat-related tweets, and perhaps a flex alert or a Spare the Air
SF News Sheriff's Deputy Shot And Killed Execution-Style In Stanislaus County A 20-year veteran of law enforcement in the Central Valley was shot and killed Sunday at point-blank range in what authorities are calling an execution. Stanislaus County Sheriff's Deputy Dennis Wallace was responding
SF News California Clergyman Shot By Instructor During Gun Safety Class When the pastor of a Modesto church went to a firearms safety class, he was reportedly hoping to protect himself "from potential dangers." But the dangerous situation found him, when the instructor of
SF News Video: Tornado Touches Down, Wreaks Havoc In California #abc7now tornado in denair pic.twitter.com/WHJjah7h39— вeĸaн † (@BekahAbuan) November 15, 2015 The National Weather Service has confirmed what we all suspected from the photos and video coming out of Stanislaus County
SF News Skydiver Falls To His Death During Festival Air Show Sad and horrifying news out of the Central Valley this morning: a skydiver fell to his death at the Pomegranate Festival in Madera on Saturday afternoon, after his parachute failed to deploy during
SF News Governor Explains Why Drought Order Won't Limit Farmers In calling for water restrictions by executive order last week, Governor Jerry Brown has required cities and towns across the state to reduce water use by 25 percent compared with 2013 levels. But
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fruit, Vegetable, And Wine Prices Likely Going Up Due To Drought Central Valley farmers are already leaving at least a half-million acres unplanted this growing season due to the drought and lack of water being allocated to their farms, and you can count on
SF News Arid Central Valley Town Cancels LGBT Pride Month Due To Straight Concerns In the wake of DOMA and Prop 8 decisions in the U.S. Supreme Court last month, Porterville, California Mayor Virginia Gurrola declared June to be LGBT Pride month, thus bringing the sprawling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smelly Central Valley California Dairy Farms Include One Mad Cow Out of thousands of Central Valley Dairy cows that routinely cause drivers on I-5 to roll up their windows, one has been singled out by the Department of Agriculture as the first confirmed
SF News Burglars Find Child Porn, Help Bust the Guy They Burgled Way out in Delhi that's Delhi, California, along Route 99 in the Central Valley a pair of petty thieves broke into a barn and stole some CDs, which they likely hoped that could
SF News 17-Year-Old Josue Raul Orozco Still At-Large, $10,000 Reward Offered Remember this guy? The guy who escaped from juvenile hall during recess, or whatever correctional facilities for the young call their break time? (Do you think they have "pizza Fridays" in juvie?) Well,
SF News 6 a.m. Oakland Drug Raid: One of the Largest Busts Ever Although a press conference happening this afternoon will tell us all of the gory details, this morning an Oakland drug bust went down. It was one of the largest of its kind in
SF News Robbers Go Nutty The ring has been in operation over the past year and a half and has stolen upwards of two million dollars of stolen nuts. If you think of just how much money it
SF News The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) The third sign of the apocalypse is upon us (the first being the TomKitten and the second being, um.... the closing down of all the local independent bookstores), as the weather reports grimly
Arts & Entertainment It's Abortion Protest Saturday There will be, of course, an anti-anti-abortion counter rally to be held in response. In fact, some pro-choice organizers are responding with all the love of open-mindedness and civil discussion that makes this