Celebrating 50 years of Earth Day. Waste of time? Looks like it. Just look around. Every street. Every freeway. Every parking lot is...

We recently were shown pictures of a beautiful poppy field northwest of Madera. We were told that the farmer was growing poppies for seed...

Madera County Historical Society This obelisk marked the grave of Jim Savage. It also marked the location of Savage’s Fresno River...

Courtesy of Manuel Rios Madera traveler Manuel Rios photographs a whale shark, which he said was estimated to be about 10 tons. Manuel...

Madera County Historical Society The timber industry provided work and play for a lot of people, including the workers shown here. Some...

Courtesy of Joseph Carello City staff prune mistletoe clusters from trees on Mainberry Drive. When not helping to make the season bright,...

Back in the good old pre-2017 days when many Californians paid little or no attention to the approximately dollar-a-month maintenance...

Madera County Historical Society More than a billion feet of lumber floated out of the mountains to Madera in this flume from 1876 to...