While artist Tonia Hemme has not held a youth painting event since the pandemic, the children were more than ready to get back to it with her latest offering. Last weekend’s Paint & Create class, titled “Sweet Time,” was a hit. The studio was filled with over a dozen children who were eager to paint, as well as eat ice cream.…

For this summer’s College for Kids community program at Merced College, local children worked incredibly hard on a production of Seussical Jr.,…

The University of California Board of Regents has appointed University of California, Merced graduate student Josiah Beharry to be the 2024-25 student…

Lisa Gilliland-Viney was happy to be teaching art inside an air-conditioned Merced Multicultural Arts Center (MAC) last Sunday when it registered 106 degrees outside. And it’s a little funny to her because that was the exact temperature Merced was experiencing when she first came to town with her husband nearly two decades ago.…

By Patty Guerra After seven months of working for hours each weekend to design, build and fly a drone, it all came down to a nervous moment for UC Merced…

The Virginia Smith Trust — which at one time controlled all the land that UC Merced is on, and the land south of the University on Old Lake Road — is still very…

By Lorena Anderson UC Merced 's resident expert on the nightmarishly massive megalodon will play a role in Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, a celebration of the toothy creatures at the top of the oceanic food chain. Professor Sora Kim will be featured in a show called “Jaws vs. The Meg,” in which she and other experts discuss and compare…

As the sun sets on Summer Academy 2023, I would like to reflect on the positive energy that took place from June 20 through July 14. During the 18-day…

Local families flocked to Castle Family Health Center for its fifth annual Back-to-School event last Friday, July 14. The non-profit healthcare…