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 ...

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

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

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

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

After a long, vibrant and fulfilling life, Nancy Barton Holmes (born Nancy Keith Barton) passed peacefully on her 83rd birthday, surrounded by family. Her life story is as fabulous as she was. Nancy ...

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.

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 ...

More than 84,000 ballots were cast by Merced County voters in the Nov. 5 General Election, according to the local Elections Department. As of the Times press deadline on Wednesday morning, ...

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 ...

Rules are posted at the entrance to the city’s homeless encampment. The ever-growing City of Los Banos has the most modern and impressive police headquarters in all of Merced County. The $27-million ...

Jeff Sweet was Castle Airport manager for just under a year between March 2022 and February 2023. With a 35-year career in military and commercial aviation, including air traffic control at the ...