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Fox Business News Host Throws Shade at Merced Over High-Speed Rail

A discussion on Fox Business News about California’s high-speed rail project included an offhand remark from a host, casually throwing shade...

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Artist Rendering of Sack Dame and Arroyo Canal Project Site for San Joaquin River Salmon Restoration Project

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The Bureau of Reclamation will award $93 million for a fish screen and bypass project on the Arroyo Canal and Sack Dam near Dos Palos – a pr...

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Mass Deportations Could Cost California Over $275 Billion, UC Merced Report Warns

A new study by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute and UC Merced says mass deportations could strip more than $275 billion from Californ...

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Liquor Licenses Abound in the Valley. How Many Is Too Many?

In some neighborhoods in the San Joaquin Valley, it’s challenging to go more than a block or two without finding someplace to buy alco...

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Does Merced County Need an Independent Commission to Draw Board of Supervisors Districts?

A bill authored by Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria would create an independent redistricting commission for Merced County – but the Board of ...

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Changing Directions: Merced Set to Switch Traffic Flow on Downtown’s Main Street

Amid a flurry of ongoing new development, downtown Merced’s West Main Street is about to change direction – literally. Christian De ...

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Valley Foster Care Agencies Are Facing an Insurance Crisis and Possible Closure

The nonprofit agencies that serve some of the Central Valley’s most vulnerable youth have found themselves stuck between the proverbia...

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This Pop-Up Nightclub Is a Place of ‘Pure Happiness’ for Merced’s Disabled Adults

About once a month, the inside of the Merced Senior Center transforms into a dark, thumping night club – complete with a DJ, flashing lights...

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Merced County Employees Get Big Raises One Year After Nearly Striking

More than 1,700 Merced County employees will receive a 10% pay raise and alleviated healthcare costs thanks to two new labor agreements appr...

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Work Permits Reinstated for UC Merced International Students, Anxiety Persists

After a chaotic few weeks with the revocations of visas and work permits of hundreds of students across the country, most international stud...

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Fresno police fatally shot Joseph Merical, 35, on Saturday, August 23, 2025, after a standoff at a west Fresno apartment complex. (Fresno PD)

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Fresno Police Fatally Shoot Man Armed With Knives After Standoff

U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

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U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack attends an interview with Reuters in Beirut, Lebanon July 22, 2025. (Reuters File)

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Firefighters work at the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Sknyliv on the outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine August 21, 2025. (Reuters File)

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Israel Strikes Yemeni Capital Sanaa

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