On January 4th, the City of Visalia celebrated the groundbreaking of the Visalia Fire Department’s Fire Station 56. Located on 1321 South Lovers Lane, once constructed, Station 56 will be the new home of Engine 56, which is currently stationed on the CAL FIRE Tulare campus just south of the site. The ceremonial groundbreaking kicked […]
Today, Healthgrades announced America’s 100 Best Hospitals for 2023, naming Kaweah Health Medical Center one of the 20 hospitals in California and the only hospital in the San Joaquin Valley from Kern to Madera counties to earn the distinction, according to new research released by the company. This achievement puts Kaweah Health in the top […]
Visalia Medical Clinic and Kaweah Health are breaking up – and Visalia Medical Clinic is set to head into the arms of Adventist Health by June 30, 2023, if not before. Kaweah Health and Visalia Medical Clinic (VMC) have been partners since 2015 through a medical foundation now known as Kaweah Health Medical Group. “In […]
After an hour-long hearing in the Tulare County Superior Court’s Juvenile Division, the Tulare County District Attorney’s office earned slightly more time to respond to claims by three former Tulare hospital leaders who say they are being unfairly prosecuted. The trio are specifically seeking the recusal of District Attorney Tim Ward and the entire Tulare […]
A land conservation professional from Nevada City has earned First Place in the 41st annual California Farm Bureau Photo Contest. Maddison Easley won $1,000 for her photo of a ray of sunlight shining through the haze of a smoldering fire, with a charred tree in the foreground. “It was an eerily beautiful scene I wanted to […]
The St. John’s is running and the Sierra Nevadas are covered in snow, so if you are not paying attention to the meltdown going on in Washington DC in the House of Representatives, 2023 is looking like it’s going to be a good year. But what about 2022? The most popular stories in the Valley […]
The Tulare County District Attorney’s Office will not revisit a conviction integrity review (CIR) performed in 2019 that reaffirmed Oscar Clifton killed Donna Jo Richmond on the day after Christmas in 1975. The announcement follows the recent publication of a book-length exposé that claims to provide overwhelming evidence of Clifton’s innocence. Author Says DA is […]
Sheriff Mike Boudreaux has taken the Oath of Office and was sworn in for his third term as Sheriff-Coroner of Tulare County by the Honorable Tulare County Presiding Judge Juliet Boccone. “I rarely get nervous,” Sheriff Boudreaux said. “But today I was because it just means so much to me.” He thanked his parents, wife, […]
The City of Visalia has asked a judge to settle a dispute between it and First Pitch Entertainment (FPE), the owners of the Visalia Rawhide baseball team, over who should bear the costs of improving Valley Strong Ballpark. “First Pitch Entertainment claims that City of Visalia taxpayers must spend up to an additional $10 million […]
The first babies of 2023 have been born at Sierra View Medical Center in Porterville and Kaweah Health Medical Center in Visalia. Dulce Roman Jaimes is the proud mother of Bonifacio Tellez Roman, Sierra View’s 2023 New Year’s Baby born at 12:10 a.m. with the help of Kim Estrada, RN of SVMC’s Maternal Child Health […]