The Hanford Sentinel has been sold by Lee Enterprises to a Canadian company, Santa Maria News Media Inc., a newly formed company led by a group of Canadian newspaper executives. The sale also included the Santa Maria Times, The Lompoc Record, and Santa Ynez Valley News. The acquisition of The Sentinel, a newspaper founded in […]
The Tulare Local Healthcare District will vote Wednesday on whether to send a complaint against its former attorney, Bruce Greene, to the State Bar of California. Greene is a Los Angeles-based partner at the firm Baker Hostetler. He and the Baker firm simultaneously represented the district and Healthcare Conglomerate Associates (HCCA); HCCA previously managed the […]
Reporting from the Valley Voice and the Visalia Times-Delta have the final round of the California News Publishers Association’s 2019 California Journalism Awards, the only area newspapers to receive the honor. First-, second- and third-place winners of the annual awards will be announced by the California News Publishers Association in the coming weeks. At the […]
Lack of state funding for school construction will not stop the Visalia Unified School District’s (VUSD) plan to construct a fifth high school, says Superintendent Dr. Tamara Ravalin. VUSD’s trustees met for a study session on March 17 to discuss how to proceed in the wake of the failure of Prop 13, a $15 billion […]
“Schizophrenia. What the hell does that really mean? Am I really all that different? Am I not a human being?” Olivia Garza shared these words with a full room at Cafe 210. Garza, 35, born and raised in Tulare County, has been struggling with mental illness since she was seven years old. After a long […]
A lawsuit against past members of the Tulare Local Healthcare District board and the district’s former legal counsel has a trial date, nearly two years after the suit was filed. Documents in the case additionally reveal that the Tulare County District Attorney’s office served a warrant on the district seeking documents related to its former […]
The Tulare County Complete Count Committee has been working hard to make sure everyone participates in the 2020 Census. Leading the charge on the Complete Count Committee are Barbara Pilegard ([email protected]) and Roberto Brady ([email protected].) Letters are being sent out March 12 to invite residents to log into a website and fill out their census […]
There will be no payout of $16.5 million for Tulare Councilman Greg Nunley from the city he represents. There will be payouts, however, for three of the five Tulare Police Department officers who sued the city following the release of a confidential report by Councilman Carlton Jones in 2018. Nunley, City Settle Suit Following the […]
Primary 2020 went smoothly for Tulare, Kings and Fresno Counties as election returns were almost final before midnight. Here is a breakdown of the parties and victories up and down the South Valley as the final numbers came revealed the winners and losers. 22nd Congressional District With early returns coming in heavily in his favor, […]
Deputy Luis Araujo was named Officer of the Year Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, by the Knights of Columbus at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Visalia. He, along with officers from other agencies, were recognized during the Knights’ 37th annual Public Safety Night. “I’d like to thank [the Knights] for giving us this award, not just […]