Blame it on Kevin Blake. If the councilman would have been at the City Council meeting on Tuesday night, the discussion on boosting Merced’s housing supply perhaps wouldn't have lasted until midnight. A few of Blake’s colleagues suggested they knew, pretty much, where he stood on the most debated issue related to the topic — the use of…

The Young Patriots Challenge (YPC), a local contest with a patriotic theme, will be held in Atwater between Sept. 13 and 17. Because our citizens’…

If you’re a Merced resident, you might want to keep an eye out for a survey that should be arriving inside mailboxes in the coming days. This particular…

Recruitment ads and a four-page, color brochure describing the top position of “County Executive Officer” have started to appear recently on behalf of Merced County in select websites dedicated to government job searches. The brochure features a long listing of 20 points detailing potential qualities of “The Ideal Candidate,” including the…

Merced Superior Court Judge Shelly Seymour is pleased to announce that a new panel of jurors has been selected to serve on the 2021-2022 Civil Grand Jury.…

Anyone who eats at Merced’s Pizza Villa can tell you what makes the pies special. For some, it’s the fresh-made sauce; for others, the dough that puffs up…

Last year at this time, you could have sliced the tension inside the Merced County Board of Supervisors chamber with a hunting knife. Much of the anxiety was prompted by — or reactions to — pandemic-related mandates and directives coming from higher government, particularly the State of California. Much more was over fear and uncertainty for…

There appeared to be a sense of last-minute urgency among those in the standing-room-only crowd at Monday night’s marathon of a City Council meeting. But it…

It was a pretty quick about-face for Atwater Mayor Paul Creighton. About a month after he shook the local political scene by announcing he…

There are upcoming elections in Merced County, the Registrar of Voters reminded local residents on Tuesday at the Merced County Board of Supervisors meeting.  According to Darlene Ingersoll, active registered voters will be receiving Vote by Mail ballots for the Merced City School District (MCSD) Area 3 for a Special Vacancy Mail…