Welcome to Kings River Life Magazine, a California online magazine with a focus on the San Joaquin Valley. Our goal is to connect people to their community by sharing stories about local entertainment, events, ministry and community service opportunities, our schools, local leaders, fiction set in the San Joaquin Valley and California, and so much more. You will also find local and California perspectives on national and worldwide events, entertainment and literature.

Another goal of this magazine is to provide a place online for local teens to read what other local teens are saying through articles of interest, reviews, poems, personal stories & more — as well as be a place where they can have a voice in their communities.

Articles will be incorporated from as many of the small towns that dot the landscape along the Kings River in the San Joaquin Valley of California as possible, while also including entertainment articles from the larger cities like Fresno and Visalia & throughout much of California. We heartily support the arts and their importance in our lives and wish to provide not only exposure to local artists but to make people in the area aware of the many opportunities to enjoy and support the arts right here in our Valley, without having to travel to San Francisco or Los Angeles. As we grow we are finding we also have a strong fan base of mystery readers and will be developing our Mystery section more and more as time goes along, primarily focusing on California writers and stories.

Kings River Life was created by local journalist and published mystery author Lorie Lewis Ham who has been a part of this area for 44 years. With the help of many wonderful Valley area contributors and San Francisco webmaster Dorian Rhodes, this online magazine was launched on May 29, 2010.

If you are a part of the communities surrounding the Kings River, or just interested in what’s going on here, this is the place for you!

New articles are added every Saturday so check back often. And we now have a new Local Live local entertainment feature going up every Wednesday night at 7 p.m., and throughout the football season we will have Reedley College game recaps Monday nights at 7 p.m. When it isn’t football season, you will find Monday Movie reviews every Monday night at 7 p.m. instead.