Miss California celebrated its 100 year anniversary at the Visalia Convention Center Saturday night, June 15, by crowning Kimberly Vernon, Miss Santa Clara County as Miss California 2024. Miss San Fernando Valley, Mikaela Harris was the first runner up. Two contestants from the Central Valley made it into the top 12 with Miss Fresno County, […]
The Visalia City Council moved quickly to get the issue of the city’s maligned new logo back on the agenda, allowing a community discussion regarding how to move forward. Though this is an evolving issue, residents are ready to jettison the new logo while the city council is suggesting the possibility that the new logo […]
A jury of seven men and five women found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. This is the first time in American history that a current or former president has been convicted of a felony. The jury deliberated for less than 12 hours. To reach a conviction the […]
Assemblymember Vince Fong beat Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux in the May 21 Special Election for Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s Congressional District 20’s term. McCarthy resigned last December two months after his ouster as House Speaker. According to the Fresno Bee Fong will resign his AD32 seat to finish McCarthy’s term that ends early January. Unofficial […]
After a precipitous drop in births, officials with Adventist Health Tulare announced in March they would temporarily close their obstetrics department on June 6. Not long after that announcement, hospital officials ended up moving that date up to April 30. “Adventist Health Tulare paused labor and delivery care effective April 30, 2024, at 11:59 p.m,” […]
This article was updated May 17 at 4:00pm The unveiling of the new City of Visalia logo — likely assumed to be relatively uncontroversial — has ended up being anything but. The introduction of the “modern” logo unleashed a firestorm of ridicule and criticism across social media that ranged from “a five year old could […]
The City of Visalia unveiled their new logo on their Facebook May 7 and the reaction has been less than positive. Withering criticism has flooded in with comments such as, “This is so sad, it looks like a 5 year old designed it,” and “Just re-checked the calendar…nope, not April 1st.” In just two days […]
Today, during former President Donald Trump’s criminal trail on falsifying business documents, Judge Juan Merchan warned that the next time he violates the gag order he will go to jail Merchan issued the original gag order before Trump’s trial started based on his behavior during the E. Jean Carroll case. The gag order bars Trump from […]
The California High Speed Rail (HSR) Authority is asking for your advice. The backbone of what is intended to become California’s high speed rail starts in the Central Valley. The first four stations to be built will be in Bakersfield, Hanford, Fresno and Madera. At an open house in Hanford on April 30, project designer […]
Public concern has been building over the unexpected cancelation of the March and April Tulare Public Cemetery District (TPCD) meetings. Contributing to the mystery is the questions over who exactly canceled the meetings and why they were canceled. With no concrete explanations wild speculation has been brewing as to what is going on in the […]