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 ...

Danny Wimmer Presents’ record-breaking 2025 festival season concluded October 2–5 with the largest Aftershock in history — drawing over 164,000 fans from all 50 states and more than 30 countries to ...

Following recognition as a Top 25 university by U.S. News & World Report, UC Merced has once again earned national acclaim, this time from the Wall Street Journal. In its 2026 report of the Best ...

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 ...

The historic Merced County Courthouse is our greatest community landmark — in terms of architecture, by way of law, order and justice, due to local government, for its most eloquent gathering space, ...