Merced County’s Assessor’s Office describes it as “a triangular shaped island, lying north of the land commonly known as ...

By Jim Cunningham and Flip Hassett The annual All Souls Day celebration in Hornitos is this Saturday, Nov. 2. The Hornitos ...

Valley Publications (MVP) is an employee-owned group of five weekly community newspapers in Merced and Stanislaus counties.

The San Luis National Wildlife Refuge hosted the annual Elk Day event on Saturday Oct. 12.The event’s name is a little ...

Tsitsi Dangarembga, a renowned Zimbabwean filmmaker, novelist and cultural activist, was selected as the 16th recipient of ...

Castle Airport hosted the first-ever Castle Airfest and Family Fun Day last Saturday. The free community event proved to be ...

Only in the last few years have I gained the ability to enjoy scary movies, and it still often requires the aid of a blanket shielding at least one of my eyes. The transition to horror fan has been a ...

If someone says they saw “the holiday house” in Atwater, there’s a good chance you know the house to which they refer. Near the corner of Juniper and First in Atwater one home stands out as having the ...

Congressman John Duarte is poised to announce his new “Border Security and Immigration Reform Act” — legislation that ...

The Merced City Council was back at work on Monday night dealing with a packed agenda that included updating a pair of ordinances on the books that were meant to address some long-existing, ...