A Tulare group home for girls and young women aged 11-21 has allegedly been a nexus for reports of fights, underage intoxication, vandalism, and sexual trafficking of minors by minors, according to the City of Tulare. City officials are now trying to shut it down, at least temporarily, after the home was the subject of […]
California’s Proposition 50 passed by a wide margin in an election that was watched nationwide as a bellwether to the 2026 midterm elections. Media outlets called the election minutes after polls closed after the California Secretary of State’s office posted preliminary results. As of 10:00pm tonight, the vote was 64.5% in favor and 35.5% against […]
The Tulare Public Cemetery District is currently without a manager after Clara Bernardo was dismissed from her employment by the Tulare County Board of Supervisors on October 30. The supervisors currently act as the Tulare Public Cemetery District’s board. After a closed-session special meeting on October 30 to consider the “Discipline, Dismissal or Release of […]
The Porterville City Council is one step closer to funding lawsuits by residents against the State of California after voting to bring a new “Individual Liberty” ordinance back to a future meeting. While the ordinance lays out a number of hot-button social and political issues that council members want to take a stand on, it […]
The Tulare County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution to oppose California’s Proposition 50 in a 4-0 vote, with Supervisor Eddie Valero absent, at their October 14 meeting. Supervisors Pete Vander Poel, Amy Shuklian, Larry Micari and Dennis Townsend voted to adopt the resolution. Currently, California has a non-partisan commission to draw congressional districts with […]
The Tulare Local Healthcare District is proud to announce that Kevin Northcraft, long-serving Board President of the District, has been named Trustee of the Year by the Association of California Healthcare Districts (ACHD). ACHD works with numerous state and local entities to support the important role California Special Healthcare Districts play in responding to the […]
A former Tulare County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO) sergeant assigned to the South County Detention Center allegedly tried and failed to record a female officer of the Porterville Police Department as she used the facility’s bathroom in the spring of this year, according to court records. Michael Martins, the former deputy, pleaded not guilty at his […]
Raids on businesses, masked law enforcement abducting people off the street, detainees packed off to detention centers … those dramatic images capture people’s attention and headlines. And the chilling effect of even the possibility of a visit by agents of ICE (was there ever a more apt acronym?) continue to fuel the hysteria. Those images […]
The 2024 Crop & Livestock Report is in for Tulare County, and the numbers don’t lie. The latest breakdown indicates an increasing consumer demand for the top five highest-grossing commodities produced in the county, despite a decrease in overall acreage usage. Tulare County reported an agricultural production value of $8.3 billion for 2024, representing a […]
Democratic leaders want voters to approve an unprecedented off-calendar change in the state’s congressional district boundaries this November to favor their party, and the possibility has local leaders firmly divided on the nakedly partisan move. Tilting a Tilted Playing Field Proposition 50 calls for replacement of the congressional districts drawn by the nonpartisan California […]