Wendy Alexander/the Madera Tribune The Matilda Torres Toros girls basketball team celebrates on the stage after winning the 2026 Div. IV Central Section Championship with a 34-23 victory over the Tulare Union Tribe on Friday at Selland Arena. It’s the first basketball title for Torres. FRESNO — After making it to the Central Section Championship game three years ago, the Matilda Torres Toros girls basketball team finally made it back, and took home the hardware. With a defen

Their health services guy, RFK Jr., admits to sniffing cocaine from public toilet seats. MAGA’s immigration shot caller, Stephen Miller, is a proud white supremacist. And Trump pardons criminals who make the Mafia seem like the Mickey Mouse Club. But the smell of MAGA rot is in the air. Even MAGA super-star Marjorie Taylor Greene says that MAGA “was all a lie.” How does MAGA lie? MAGA misdirects by mimicking Las Vegas illusionists. They pull “whataboutisms” from a hat to cha

Note: Because this Opinion is long, I have asked The Madera Tribune to publish it in two pieces, the remaining part in next week’s paper. This question, in this letter, is primarily for Christians, any denomination, very active, not practicing, whatever. Others are invited to consider the message herein and see how the question relates to them. Again: Why are you a Democrat? That’s the bait question. Here’s the hook question — who do you associate yourself with? As a person w

Fifteen million viewers held their breaths while Avery Mason, the 24-year-old anchor of American Events, the most popular newsmagazine on television, sat in the driver’s seat of a Honda minivan, perched on a hydraulic lift above a high-school swimming pool. When the restraint was released, the car rolled at the angle that a car veering off a highway and into a river or lake would fall. Avery had completed a week of instruction from experts on how to escape a sinking automobi

Andy Li, Wikimedia Commons While we usually think of the British in regard to this treat, the Irish like it, too. Just like one thinks of turkey on Thanksgiving, most of us think corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day, which is on Tuesday, March 17. While we have plenty of time before then, it never hurts to start thinking ahead and planning early. I am not sure what it is like for everybody, but I can say that I am amazed at how quickly time goes by. It does really see

For The Madera Tribune The floodwaters of 1955 threatened everything in Madera — even the D Street railroad bridge. Nothing is permanent but change. Maderans have always remembered this as they approached the winter season, casting worried and frequent looks at the skies. Too often drought conditions have made them wonder if there would ever be enough water. In 1955, however, it was a different story. They still looked toward the skies, but this time they wondered if the rain