The Tulare City Council approved an additional $160,000 to shore up the fledgling concert series at the Adventist Health Amphitheater in Zumwalt Park, bringing the total off-budget cash infusions from City Hall to $842,000 since December. The added funding is in addition to the $400,000 earmarked for concert expenses in the city’s 2025-26 budget, and […]
Visalia’s Sequoia Mall has had its share of severe ups and downs over the decades. By the end of the 2010s, it was nearly deserted, empty of customers and businesses alike. But it appears to be enjoying a slow upswing again, with the promise of future development that might see it regain a bit of […]
Among a slew of changes to rates and fees charged by Visalia City Hall for its services is a significant cost increase for non-residents who want to rent one of the city’s four community centers or participate in city-sponsored programs. The fee and rate schedule changes for all city departments were approved by the City […]
Visalia City Hall plans to spend $409 million during the 2026-27 fiscal year and $359 million in fiscal year 2027-28 according to a two-year budget approved unanimously by the City Council on Tuesday night, June 15. The spending plan includes a $110.4 million allocation for the general fund in its first year, and $110.8 for […]
Two members of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors made an unannounced exit during a ceremony honoring the work of LGBTQ+ support organizations during the board’s meeting on Tuesday, June 2. Supervisors Pete Vander Poel (District 2) and Dennis Townsend (District 5) apparently left the meeting to avoid being included in the presentation of the […]
Citizens in Visalia may find it easier to understand what City Hall wants and how soon it wants it after a major retooling of the city’s code enforcement rules. They should also find a more flexible attitude at the city’s Neighborhood Preservation Department when it comes to getting violations fixed. “We found some errors in […]
Former CEO of the Tulare Local Health Care District (TLHCD) Yorai Shimon ‘Benny’ Benzeevi can no longer practice medicine in the state of California. The Medical Board of the California Department of Consumer Affairs announced today, May 7, that the disgraced onetime emergency room doctor agreed to surrender his physician and surgeon’s certificate. The agreement […]
A weedy 10-acre field on Mooney Boulevard – once home to a rural winery in what used to be the outskirts of town – is now open for development as high-density housing in Tulare. The change, however, split the Tulare City Council and is upsetting residents already living there. Del Lago Residents Object The […]
The Visalia City Council continues to inch forward on new city ordinances that will allow retail cannabis sales inside the city limits, establishing fees and imposing taxes, but still has no plans to start issuing business licenses. City strategizing for new state laws concerning cannabis sales At the latest council meeting on Monday, March […]
There will be one less item on the November ballot after the Visalia City Council decided not to ask voters for approval of a new sales tax to cover the cost of unfunded capital improvement projects already in the works, including an aquatics center, the East Side Regional Park and the third and final phase […]