The arrival of Santa Claus inside the Marketplace at Merced last Saturday not only ushered in the Christmas season in town, ...

By ROBIN SHEPARD Times Correspondent While not wholly impossible, the prospects of robust, top-tier air cargo operations at ...

Thirteen residents applied for the job, but only five showed up for the interview. After questioning a smaller number of ...

By DOANE YAWGER Special to the Times Mercedians have confidence in their police officers and are calling the Merced Police ...

By SARAH LIM Special to the Times Led by the Central Valley Opportunity Fund, a local campaign has been launched to raise ...

The Goods Italian Market — one of the best new fall additions to Downtown Merced — is open at 348 W. Main Street, as an extension of the popular Bella Luna restaurant  The highly-anticipated store is ...

Fifty years – a half-century of time filled with raising families, working and imagining what the future might hold in store, all the planned events and unplanned detours that add up to the natural ...

As October spirits descend upon the Central Valley, our fair city sheds its quiet veneer and embraces the spooky season with fang-tastic enthusiasm. Forget a lone pumpkin or a few cobwebs — a ...

Merced County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Steve Tietjen announced that he will not seek re-election in 2026, and will retire at the end of his current term, which ends in December of 2026. Tietjen, ...

The Merced Irrigation District has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the future recreation management of MID’s land around Lake Yosemite. “The Lake Yosemite area has a long and important ...

To someone seeing it for the first time, that big bulldozer on the west side of Highway 99 in Turlock might be mistaken for an actual piece of construction equipment. At least one inquiry from a ...

Kudos to UC Merced Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz for leading an incredible State of the University address on Oct. 22 that provided significant recognition to local community members and leaders, as ...