Children of all ages, along with their adult family members, showed up in droves last Friday morning to take part in the ...

The mid-summer campaign season is starting to heat up as local races take shape for the General Election in November. While there are some high-profile runoffs going on, attention is turning to the ...

Today, Outside Lands has revealed the daily lineups for the 3-day festival held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park August 8-10. Now in its 17th year, the globally recognized festival continues to ...

Our Central Valley By STEVE NEWVINE A 50th anniversary was marked last week in Chowchilla. It was not a festive occasion but ...

By JILL CUNNINGHAM  Before there was a campus, before there were graduates, before there were traditions, there were people ...

By SARAH LIM Special to the Times The 7-Up sign by Marie’s Mexican Kitchen at 259 W. Main Street is a prominent landmark in ...

By FLIP HASSETT & JIM CUNNINGHAM Applegate Zoo is reopening after being closed since the start of the year.  Zoo officials ...

It’s lucky year 13 for Aftershock as producer Danny Wimmer Presents announces the highly anticipated lineup for The West Coast’s Largest Rock, Punk & Metal Festival, coming back to Discovery Park in ...

Karen Adams plans to take a short walk from her office next week, and make her way across the hallway to the Elections Department, so she can file paperwork to run for a seventh term as Merced ...

My Chemical Romance will kick off their 2025 North American stadium tour – “Long Live”: The Black Parade – next month on July 11 in Seattle, WA at T-Mobile Park. Limited tickets remain for their ...

A large crowd of passionate locals and distinguished guests last Saturday, July 11, for the official groundbreaking ceremony ...

June 8, 2026 Shirley Kirby peacefully turned toward the heavens and was called home on the evening of Monday, June 8, 2026, surrounded by her loving family. Shirley was born on May 15, 1922.