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Local Arrest Reports for the Central Valley

Big Valley News has teamed up with Local Crime News, California's dedicated resource for arrest news. We have reporters throughout all of California collecting arrest news which is gathered and published daily. Our arrest news is provided as a courtesy resource for the general public. We partner with Neighborhood Watch Groups and Crime Stoppers to keep organizations in the loop on arrests that are happening throughout their cities and neighborhoods.

In 1989 Jack Porter opened a small bulletin board system (BBS) in Madera called Zen Den Systems. The one-line BBS ran on the commercial Wildcat software, while many of the other boards in the area used a free software called Opus. ZDS was a part of the FIDO-Net system at the time and there was controversy with the Fresno boards because of it. For the next five years, the bulletin board grew and was named the 11^th most popular board in North America by Boardwatch Magazine in 1991.

Advertising

For the past 29 years, we have successfully marketed our online services in the Central Valley. In 1989, we launched the first online bulletin board in Madera County, which, two years later, was recognized by Boardwatch Magazine as one of the nation's top 15 BBSs.

Six years later, we launched MaderaOnline.com as Madera County's first online newspaper. Millions of user sessions later, we are still a valley leader in online communication, delivering BigValleyNews.com to readers in Madera, Fresno, Merced, and Tulare counties. Not to mention the start of Big Valley Radio in 2022, with 24 hours a day of the best classic rock in the valley.

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