Times Correspondent 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 ...

What have those mischievous UC Merced bobcats done now? The Times has learned that a group of them are planning to transform parts of the historic Greenbrier home into a haunted house on the eve of ...

Twenty years can fly by, especially for a successful business.  But for a small local business owner like Kris Chinnock, two decades of serving the community is quite an accomplishment — a testimony ...

This story will be updated for this week’s print publication and online Merced City Councilman Ronnie De Anda announced he is stepping down from the Merced City Council during emotional comments at ...

Our Central Valley By STEVE NEWVINE We are in the playoffs of Major League Baseball, so now seems an appropriate time to mark ...

Did you know that many foster youth arrive at their foster homes with only a small bag of clothing, if that?  Marissa Chapman knows the uncertain feelings of isolation and neglect that can come with ...

Mercedians have been patiently awaiting significant retail progress in and around the old Merced Mall site, and they were ...

At a time when the word “divided” frequently enters our national dialogue and debates, local residents came together in a show of unity on Saturday, Oct. 4, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the ...

We’re here celebrating heavy metal music in Sacramento and its beautiful! It was so cool to receive a proclamation from the city to Aftershock because of all of the great stuff that we do for the area ...

As someone who’s been a citizen of Merced County for all my life and involved in the political scene of this county, I feel the need to put our region first before my party. That’s why I’m actively ...

It was a real treat to see the 1957 movie Bombers B-52 on TCM (Turner Movie Classics) recently. The critics did not care for the movie, and it was not a box office blockbuster in spite of having ...

Eleanor Hampton, a sophomore cross country athlete for Merced High School, continues to make a name for herself while setting two new all-time records for the school in the past month, with no signs ...