Madera County District 2 Supervisor David Rogers wants the public to know that if they receive notice to enter private property from the Central Valley representative of the California High Speed Rail authority, they are not required to comply. Rogers received an email from Diana Gomez, Central Valley regional director for the California High Speed…

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — From undocumented driver’s licenses to increased professional standards for massage therapist, new California laws take effect on January 1st. Starting on January 2nd, the DMV will hand over original driver’s licenses to undocumented California residents. The law was adopted in 2013, and it means residents will not have to prove legal…

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A new bill being considered in the California legislature could ban all public schools in the state from using “Redskins” as their mascots, saying the name is racist. Right now three of the four remaining schools in California that have the Redskins mascot are right here in the Central Valley. One…

Chowchilla and Tulare would be among four high schools affected by a state lawmaker’s push to ban the use of Redskins as a mascot or nickname in California public schools. The two Central Section schools would have until Jan. 1, 2017, to phase out the name if AB30 — a bill introduced earlier this month…

Los Angeles gets 88% of its water from three major aqueducts, flowing from the Colorado River, Owens Valley and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. But as they make their way into the region, the aqueducts cross the San Andreas fault a total of 32 times. Officials have long warned that a massive temblor on the…

A federal appeals court Monday overruled objections by Central Valley farmers, water districts and a federal judge and upheld the government’s reduction of water shipments from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in order to protect salmon, steelhead trout and other species. It was the second time this year that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of…

Drought, water storage, groundwater, water conservation, water meters, basically anything to do with water was a No. 1 priority in California, especially the Central Valley in 2014. The three-year drought definitely left its mark and made a huge impact in the lives of residents throughout the state. Conserving water became a state mandate. Stricter water…

LOS BANOS, Calif. – Authorities have identified a 26-year-old Camarillo man who died this month in a Merced County crash. Conner Tarr was killed in a crash about 2:15 a.m. Dec. 19 in Los Banos, authorities said Tuesday. A 62-year-old Fontana man driving a tractor-trailer crashed into a sedan while driving on Interstate 5 in…

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KMPH) -Residents of the Parkwood neighborhood in Madera County say their water is smelly, yellowish, and tastes like metal. For years the 600 or so homes and businesses located just south of Madera has had its share of problems with its water supply. Recently two of the four wells supplying water to…

The California attorney general’s office has dismissed the remaining charges against Jacob Tellez in connection with last year’s shooting death of Bernabed Hernandez-Canela, the Sun-Star has learned. Tellez, 18, was arrested earlier this year after a Merced County Sheriff Department investigation into Hernendez-Canela’s March 30, 2013 shooting death outside a large house party on Westside…