Visalia police arrest man and woman team who robbed man at knife point @TheSunGazette VISALIA – Not quite a modern day Bonnie and Clyde duo, but one Visalia male-female robbery team was taken into custody after stealing personal property at knife point last week. At 3:40 a.m., officers were dispatched to Houston and Santa Fe […]

Visalia Animal Services will begin trapping, spay/neutering cats and then returning them where they were found to reduce feral cat population, euthanasia rates By Reggie Ellis @Reggie_SGN VISALIA – The only way to reduce the number of feral cats in a community is to stop killing them and put them back where you found them.  That […]

SHRM of Tulare/Kings Counties holds annual human resources conference Sept. 19 in Visalia @TheSunGazette VISALIA – It’s easy to focus on the cogs and widgets produced by your small business, but there is no greater resource than the intangibles your employees bring to the workplace. Networking, sales, creativity and customer service are all things machines […]

Developers plan large apartment complexes with applications doubling the last two years  By John Lindt Sierra2theSea News Service VISALIA – A growing number of large apartment complexes are in the works in Visalia which is looking to ramp up the number of multi-family units that could be built in the next year or so in […]

Indoor playground company Luv 2 Play plans to open in former In-Shape gym at Sequoia Mall By Reggie Ellis @Reggie_SGN VISALIA – This time next year, toddlers and young children will have a place to get inside and play when its 100 degrees outside.  At its Aug. 12 meeting, the Visalia Planning Commission approved an indoor […]

Ilene Shafer strikes Bubbles & Bleach Laundromat employee with broomstick after argument  @TheSunGazette VISALIA – While at a laundromat on Mooney last week, one resident was not able to keep her criminal record as clean as her clothes after getting into a heated argument with an employee. On Friday, Aug. 16 at 10:52 a.m. officers […]

Visalia-Porterville metro area tied for fifth with Silicon Valley in terms of teacher income versus cost of living study @TheSunGazette TULARE COUNTY – As reports continue to come out ranking Tulare County last in education, another report shows that the Visalia-Porterville area is right where teachers want to be.  SmartAsset, a personal finance website, released […]

Visalia issued record number of citations for illegal fireworks during deadly Fourth of July holiday that killed a man  By Reggie Ellis @Reggie_SGN VISALIA – Illegal fireworks continue to skyrocket in Visalia and, for the first time this year, to deadly levels.  This past Fourth of July marked the first fatality due to illegal fireworks in […]

Visalia special enforcement unit arrests man on probation for firearm possession among other possession crimes @TheSunGazette VISALIA – Visalia’s special enforcement unit took one dangerous gun off the street in a probation search last week, along with a few other items people on probation are not supposed to have. On Tuesday, Aug. 6 at 10:15 […]

By Jermaine Johnson II @Jerm_10 VISALIA – Visalia has established itself as a powerhouse in the Babe Ruth baseball league. On Friday night, Visalia Blue won their sixth Cal Ripken World Series championship with a 12-0 victory over Ohio Valley of South Bend, Ind. The team won the championship in front of their home crowd, […]