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More than 150 pounds of marijuana buds and about 3,500 plants were confiscated in Ballico during a marijuana enforcement operation by authorities, according to the Merced County Sheriff’s office. The … Click to Continue »

The fire that flared up overnight in Ventura County has scorched 50,000 acres so far and burned at least 150 structures. Among those destroyed were buildings at a psychiatric hospital, which is now sending some of its patients to the San Joaquin Valley. Photos from the Thomas Fire on Tuesday …

A vacant house burned down just outside the city of Merced, though fire crews were able to keep flames off of neighboring buildings, according to Calfire. Flames were reported at … Click to Continue »

A fire near Livingston destroyed a garage that had been turned into a living space, according to officials with Calfire. Firefighters received a report about 1:30 p.m. Thursday that a … Click to Continue »

A vacant home in Atwater was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived to the corner house at about noon on Monday, according to CalFire-Merced County officials. Firefighters did a thorough … Click to Continue »

Fire gutted a vacant auto-body shop Wednesday night in Dos Palos. It took the Dos Palos Fire Department and Calfire-Merced County, about three hours to bring the blaze under control … Click to Continue »

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Monday, May 15: If there’s a silver lining to the toxic cloud hovering over the White House, it’s that our … Click to Continue »

Crews are trying to figure out how a fire started that destroyed a mobile home last night. It happened in the area of Lincoln and Del Rey Avenues. Firefighters say no one was home when the fire started. Crews from Sanger, Fresno County and a Cal-Fire unit were called out …

California’s drought is so severe farmers are having to fallow more and more crops in the Central Valley. One farmer didn’t see this coming after meeting with President Barack Obama last year, he thought something would be done but drought relief is yet to come. A 70 acre field near …

Selma firefighters were busy this afternoon putting out a raging house fire. It happened after one o’clock this afternoon in the neighborhood of Sylvia and North. Video was sent in to us by Cody Chadwick. You can see flames shooting from the attic and smoke billowing out from the air …