Merced officials pledged to increase gang violence prevention resources after a string of killings in the city in recent weeks. By Elizabe...

Merced pedestrians who don’t cross the road in a crosswalk, commonly called jaywalking, can now face potential citations under a new city or...

A photo of decaying meat submerged in a gelatinous slop of grease and oil was part of a recent presentation given to the Merced County Board...

With the close of 2025, police chiefs across Merced County are focusing on technology upgrades and filling staff vacancies in the New Year. ...

California’s High Speed Rail Authority is proposing a new site for a Merced station in its quest to build a bullet train connecting Southern...

Now that 2025 is in the rearview mirror, several important new laws take effect this year that will have key impacts on San Joaquin Valley r...

California’s top arts ambassadors identified downtown Merced as a notable cultural hub, one of the first two counties in the San Joaquin Val...

Sean Malloy was in the middle of a job interview in 2005 when he saw what he described as a “brown wasteland of construction equipment.” B...

Fifty years after Hmong families fled war and rebuilt their lives in the Central Valley, a new chapter is taking shape – one of rising influ...

The Merced City Council appointed Yang Pao Thao to the District 2 council seat left vacant by Ronnie De Anda’s resignation in October. Alm...