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Merced County Supervisors to review proposed budget, $6.6 million shortfall...
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Merced County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday is scheduled to consider approval of the proposed fiscal year 2024-25 budget, which is projected to have a shortfall of $6.6...
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Latino voters in the Central Valley could play a critical role in upcoming...
Reading Time: 2 minutes With the November U.S. elections quickly approaching, polls are starting to examine which groups could potentially decide political seats at the local, state and federal levels....
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Valley farmworkers say they’re feeling California’s overtime law impacts –...
Reading Time: 6 minutes Under the sweltering sun of California’s Central Valley, farmworkers toil from dawn until dusk, harvesting crops that feed millions of people globally. Despite their hard work,...
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Most Valley voters don’t approve of their legislators, survey finds
Reading Time: 3 minutes A majority of voters living in California’s Central Valley don’t approve of the job elected officials are doing, according to a recent survey by the Public Policy Institute of...
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Merced voters will consider $80 million bond measure to upgrade school...
Reading Time: 2 minutes An $80 million bond measure to improve and upgrade facilities in Merced City School District will be among the important issues local voters will consider in November. The...
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Merced considering hotel tax increase for November ballot. Here’s why...
Reading Time: 3 minutes Should Merced hotel guests pay a bit more for their stay, in order to help promote the Gateway to Yosemite as a destination spot? That question may soon be before Merced voters...
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Air-pollution study finds Valley residents pay millions on ‘completely...
Reading Time: 6 minutes Air in the San Joaquin Valley costs a fortune. So say researchers at UC Merced, who found that three prevalent air pollutants in the region can cost San Joaquin Valley residents...
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Grand jury finds multiple failures at Merced City Schools – including...
Reading Time: 6 minutes A Merced County Civil Grand Jury investigation found Merced City School District trustees violated California’s open meeting law and education code on numerous occasions. The...
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UC Merced ecologist sees Great Whites up close on Shark Week
Reading Time: 3 minutes The phrase “Jaws vs. Leviathan” conjures a variety of images – as the title is certainly reminiscent of kaiju movies where imaginary enormous beasts are pitted against one...
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Containment of French Fire near Mariposa grows, Highway 140 to Yosemite open
Reading Time: 2 minutes 8 a.m. Saturday, July 6 Firefighters are making progress on the French Fire, which is burning near Mariposa. Containment of the blaze had grown to 20% as of 7:30 a.m. Saturday,...
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In fire-prone Mariposa, residents don’t lose sight of what keeps them there
Reading Time: 4 minutes Brenda Ostrom has lived in this Gold Rush-era town since 1998 and lately has been busy building what she calls her dream kitchen. “It’s all custom,” she says. She’s already put...
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Merced’s former Bitwise building is getting a new tenant. Here’s who’s taking...
Reading Time: 2 minutes A little more than a year after Fresno-based Bitwise Industries collapsed, the building it once occupied in the heart of Merced is getting a new tenant. Officials at UC Merced...
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Inmate dies at Chowchilla women’s prison amid allegations it was heat related
Reading Time: < 1 minute The death of a female inmate at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla is being investigated amid allegations by an advocacy group the extreme heat was the cause....
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Merced’s new IMAX theater opens weeks earlier than expected. Take a look inside
Reading Time: 3 minutes Several Merced moviegoers who happened to visit downtown’s Regal Hollywood Cinema on July 4 received a special holiday surprise. On Independence Day the theater opened the doors...
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Merced leaders opt against putting hotel tax increase on November ballot....
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Merced City Council decided unanimously Monday against putting a measure to increase the city’s transient occupancy tax before voters in November. The council opted instead...
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Merced parks get boost from $150K grant to support new master plan
Reading Time: < 1 minute Merced‘s parks received key financial support this week, as the Central Valley Opportunity Fund awarded a $150,000 grant to the Parks and Community Services department. The...
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‘Not just farmland.’ This Central Valley art installation points to...
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the middle of California’s vast San Joaquin Valley, an overpass along Highway 99 commemorates massive beasts that roamed the land hundreds of thousands of years ago....
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Bitwise Industries co-founders plead guilty in federal court to wire fraud in...
Reading Time: 3 minutes The co-founders of Bitwise Industries, Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin Jr., pleaded guilty on Wednesday to two counts each of wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy, more than a year...
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Concerns raised as Valley healthcare provider takes over county clinics....
Reading Time: 6 minutes When two of Modesto’s county-run health clinics closed at the start of July, Andriana Rodriguez was in a better position than most to know what might happen next for Valley...
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After opening two decades ago, UC Merced is finally annexed into city limits
Reading Time: 3 minutes “UC Merced, you’re in the city!” That declaration was made by the chair of the Local Agency Formation Commission of Merced County on Thursday after a unanimous vote to annex UC...
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