This has always been a great time of year for Scott Silveira. The Merced County Spring Fair in Los Banos is just around the corner — April 29 to May 3. As a Los Banos native born into a family of ...

It’s been years since Merced has experienced a real, pro-rodeo competition, even though this region has a rodeo heritage that ...

By SARAH LIM Special to the Times Recently, the County of Merced held its inaugural “State of the County” event at the ...

By STEVE ROUSSOS & WENDY CALLISTER SPENCER  Special to the Times In a quiet neighborhood in Merced, the sound coming from ...

The premier functional neurosurgeon in the Central Valley told the Times this week that literally thousands of people being ...

Paula Heupel has led an impressive, linear career in education that has taken her through the ranks of local academia — from classroom teacher and school principal to top executive, administrative ...

Merced County leaders and local residents — including about 580 young students from Joe Stefani Elementary School — ...

By GABRIELLE ANDRADE Special to the Times A new facility to support and enrich the students of Merced City School District ...

A new airline coming to town, as well new facility upgrades, constitute a “game-changer” for the Merced Yosemite Regional ...

When campaign season rolls around, you can almost expect to see a few candidates in Western garb as they hop into a truck and talk about their valley roots during a TV advertisement. Brian Pacheco, ...

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, ...

A Sacramento-based political action committee associated with state Republican Party interests, and once active in opposing reelection of two incumbent Democrat supervisors in San Luis Obispo County ...