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

This has always been a great time of year for Scott Silveira. The Merced County Spring Fair in Los Banos is just around the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Drum rolls, please. The results are in: The prize for the tallest Christmas tree is tied between the Sheriff Posse and the Courthouse Museum, the smallest Christmas tree goes to the Merced County ...