Families, educators and education leaders gathered last night at the Virginia Smith Honor Scholars Award Dinner, held at the MCOE Downtown Center, to celebrate the achievements of more than 100 scholarship recipients and 18 honor scholars. Students from El Capitan, Merced and Golden Valley high school were recognized for meeting…

Life is finally returning to normal in Planada after floods swept through the small town earlier this year. This Saturday the town will be…

For some passionate and driven individuals, Yosemite National Park is more than a tourist destination, or a camping and hiking experience — it’s…

The Merced County Board of Supervisors has selected a new software platform and operations provider to power their local government’s digital transformation toward a simplified, one-stop permitting process.  The county signed a 10-year contract with Accela, a San Ramon-based provider of cloud solutions at the heart of government operations. The…

Mission Gardens, located at 1450  East  27th  Street in Merced, was originally built in 1962 for the  Sisters  of the Immaculate Heart who taught at the…

There’s a new Indian grocery store for the Merced community, and particularly for local Punjabi Americans, inside the Bear Creek Village at 2933 G…

Two local women who have been best friends for years have opened up Merced’s latest cycling store — Adventum Bikes — in the Bear Creek Village retail center, right next door to the Los Panchos restaurant at 2975 G Street. Andrea Velasquez, a nurse practitioner, and Corina Diaz, a school teacher, wanted to start a venture that would…

The latest Mercado Night held last Thursday was a great time for the community. Thousands of visitors flooded the streets surrounding Bob Hart Square to…

Hundreds of residents, city officials, business owners, and craft beer fans converged on N Street over the weekend for the ribbon-cutting ceremony…

Catholic Charities is a community benefit organization that is often a first responder in helping struggling residents with food, basic necessities and emergency assistance regardless of age, race or beliefs. Just a few years ago, their presence in Merced was greatly appreciated, but it largely consisted of an aging building on…