Despite the best arguments of the residents and owner of the Westlake Village Mobile Park, the Visalia City Council denied their attempts to derail construction of a 28-pump gas station and car wash 160 feet from their homes. The 3-2 decision to ratify the previous decision of the city’s Planning Commission came during a meeting […]
Air quality officials are advising San Joaquin Valley residents that local conditions are cold, dry and stagnant, causing PM2.5 emissions (particulate matter pollution) to accumulate, resulting in higher pollution concentrations throughout the Valley air basin. The air basin includes the counties of San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and the Valley portion of […]
Terry Ommen is Visalia’s preeminent historian, and each year he selects a topic in local history to discuss in the monthly forum, “Tulare County Voices at 210.” This year’s subject is “The Butterfield Overland Stage: Tulare County’s Link to the Outside World.” The forum is at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 210 W. Center […]
Alaska Airlines expanded into the global market at Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FAT) earlier today with the launch of seasonal non-stop service from Fresno to Guadalajara, Mexico. This winter, Alaska Airlines will offer daily service between Fresno and Guadalajara (GDL) now through February 12, 2025. Alaska Airlines joins the existing international carriers that serve the […]
California water officials, local water agencies and farmers have spent the past decade preparing for the 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, a historic regulatory framework developed to bring overdrafted aquifers into balance by 2040. Under SGMA, local groundwater sustainability agencies must submit plans that show how the basins will achieve long-term sustainability by […]
In 1858, when Visalia was about six years old, the tiny settlement welcomed a transportation feature that would transform Visalia, California, and indeed the nation – the Butterfield Overland Stage. The Overland Stage Line would be one of the first successful attempts to connect the East Coast of the United States with the nation’s new […]
Mission has always been what 210 has been about. Just with a cup of joe. But the leadership at First Presbyterian Church in Visalia, which owns 210 W. Center Ave., has decided that its experiment in combining faith, fellowship and a hot cup of java, had become too expensive to continue. Something had to give. […]
Short-term rentals – so-called AirBnBs – are apparently still causing chaos in Visalia, and City Hall aims to bring scofflaw landlords to heel. They’re going after their pocketbooks. Almost No Compliance with New Code Just about this time last year, the Visalia City Council revamped the city’s zoning rules in an effort to bring […]
Attorneys for FPA Women’s Health, a chain of clinics providing family planning and abortion services, have responded to a lawsuit attempting to close their newly-opened Tulare clinic at 1068 N. Cherry. The Tulare Medical Center Property Owners’ Association, which governs the Tulare Medical Center complex where FPA is leasing its clinic space, filed suit at […]
Former Tulare hospital executive Dr. Yorai “Benny” Benzeevi will avoid jail time and serve 463 days of probation in Los Angeles County after pleading no contest to six felonies and two misdemeanors. The charges stemmed from acts undertaken when he and his company, Healthcare Conglomerate Associates, managed Tulare Regional Medical Center and the Southern Inyo […]