Madera County

As the Madera Community Hospital bankruptcy filing is expected to be completed, the closure of three clinics and a hospital in a single month in the county have left many questions.

Both counties were already experiencing a surge of patients with respiratory illnesses. But after the Madera hospital shut down, one county was left wondering what happens now and the other tending to more patients than it could handle.

Faced with bankruptcy, services at Madera Community Hospital and its three rural clinics are set to shut down. First responders were already preparing for a deluge of emergencies associated with the looming closure.

The only general hospital in rural Madera County will close, in a move that is expected to trigger negative effects on residents relying on its medical care.

The California Department of Health Care Services has rolled out a new program to help some low-income residents eliminate asthma triggers in their homes. Five months later, families in the San Joaquin Valley are struggling to get these services.

Maria Martinez dreamt of owning her own restaurant when she was a kid living in Mexico.

Every winter, an effort takes place to determine how many people who call the region home do not have homes themselves. The effort is called the Point in Time count, and its findings have significant implications on the effort to address homelessness.

A year after the Creek Fire ignited in the Sierra Nevada, Madera County is facing a lawsuit related to injuries sustained by campers who became trapped by…

The Madera County Sheriff’s Department declared a local state of emergency Wednesday due to worsening weather conditions. It also issued an evacuation…

When James Sponsler and two close friends set out on a backpacking trip Friday night over Labor Day Weekend, they didn’t know the Creek Fire had started…