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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...