They call it District 27, and geographically, it’s about 95 percent of Merced County. It’s in Madera County, west Madera and ...

With a career spanning 35 years in local schools and leadership positions, Richard Lopez is poised to take the reins of the Merced County Office of Education as the next Superintendent of Schools.

The Old Timers of Merced County recognized 18 distinguished honorees during the group’s 83rd annual luncheon last Sunday, April 26, at the Italo-American Lodge in Downtown Merced. Since its formation ...

In this intense, competitive world of local politics, meeting Ana Boyenga is like a breath of fresh air. There’s a warm, ...

A moving and deeply human theatrical experience comes to the stage this weekend in Merced with If All the Sky Were Paper, a ...

Miguel Alejandre is an ambitious Los Banos businessman who owns five gym and wellness locations across the region. At 31, he ...

While the local Registrar of Voters Mel Levey told local television news reporters that the utmost care is being taken in counting and reporting the remaining ballots from the Nov. 5 election, and ...

The Playhouse Merced Conservatory is proud to present Oliver! Jr. a lively, family-friendly musical adaptation of the beloved ...

Established in 1964, Mid-Valley Publications (MVP) is an employee-owned group of five weekly community newspapers in Merced and Stanislaus counties. With the Merced County Times, Atwater-Winton Times, ...

John Morrow Derby — a former reporter who started his own small town, community newspaper literally on his own kitchen table, and then turned his passion into a 60-year odyssey — has passed away. The ...

Preston Castle was constructed in 1894 as the administration building for the Preston School of Industry, a reform school for boys. The Romanesque Revival style of architecture was to make the ...