Educational leaders, elected officials and community members from across Merced County gathered Wednesday, Jan. 22, for the Merced County Schools Annual Education Report, hosted in-person at the MCOE Downtown Center. The presentation, led by Merced County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Steve Tietjen, highlighted educational updates…

When Julianna Stocking took the reins of the Merced City School District (MCSD) last June it was a coming home of sorts for the Livingston High…

During Monday night’s Merced City Council meeting, leaders paid tribute to members of the Merced High School Varsity Girl’s Water Polo Team 2024-25 who…

The Merced College Music Department and Jazz Ensembles will perform two “big band” concerts at the start of December that will feature a mix of classics, current songs, instrumentals and plenty of vocals. There was so much participation by local musicians last semester that the Ensemble created two performance bands, appropriately named the…

By JODY MURRAY UC Merced Newsroom Tsitsi Dangarembga, a renowned Zimbabwean filmmaker, novelist and cultural activist, was selected as the 16th…

The San Luis National Wildlife Refuge hosted the annual Elk Day event on Saturday Oct. 12. The event’s name is a little misleading because…

Le Grand is an active little town in the southeastern part of Merced County, near Planada and Plainsburg. This unincorporated town in 2022 had a population of about 1,700 people. Le Grand came into existence when the Santa Fe Railroad came through in 1894-1896. Up until that time just a very few homes were in the area. The…

Thanks to the hard work of numerous UC Merced Faculty, along with support from the University’s Department of the Humanities, a variety of…

Quarterback Ariel Ochoa is ranked 12th in the nation in passing yards (1,656), and she’s thrown 25 touchdown passes with an overall 74 percent…