LE GRAND — It was a torrid summer morning on a Merced County agave farm, and UC Merced doctoral student Calysta Ownby bored into the dirt wi...

Ron Cook joined a crowd of protesters on M Street in front of Merced’s Courthouse Park at the end of July. Much like previous protests, the ...

When James Hunt planted 14 acres of agave on his secluded Merced farm last year, he thought he’d harvest it for liquor. After all, for centu...

Madera College faculty walked off the job and called out sick from work earlier this month to protest the return of an administrator who was...

The grandmother of 8-year-old Sophia Mason, whose body was found in a north Merced home in 2022, will receive a $12 million settlement, foll...

Chowchilla residents in the upscale gated community of Greenhills Estates may soon see a change, following a year of watching lake levels fa...

In the first year since Merced installed two red-light cameras downtown, police have issued nearly 2,000 tickets. By Elizabeth Wilson The ...

Landlords in Merced who fail to provide habitable living conditions for tenants will be fined $1,000 each day for uncorrected violations und...

Dead fish, shrinking lakes and a dispute over who controls a shared water system have divided the Greenhills Estates community in Chowchilla...

Merced is growing, but the question is whether we are growing in a way that actually works for the people who live here. By RoseMarie Campa...