The Merced Irrigation District has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the future recreation management of MID’s ...

Times Photos by John Miller & Jamie Thomas By JAMIE THOMAS As October spirits descend upon the Central Valley, our fair city sheds its quiet veneer and embraces the spooky season with fang-tastic ...

A skeptic, a mystic, and a podcast.  The “Gen Explains” weekly show dives deep into the world of astrology, mythology, the occult, and everything in between.  The locally-produced podcast celebrated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mercedians have been patiently awaiting significant retail progress in and around the old Merced Mall site, and they were ...

Our Central Valley By STEVE NEWVINE We are in the playoffs of Major League Baseball, so now seems an appropriate time to mark ...

Five years ago, Andy Beltran’s newly-bought space downtown was in dire need of a renovation. The now 34-year-old had returned to his hometown after working a job at an electrical contractor in ...

Known as the go-to roadside stop, Humble Rice Farmer began offering handpicked flower bouquet services in 2019, selling right outside the doors of their countryside flower farm in Winton. Five years ...