On Feb. 5, 1856, the steamboat Belle exploded while heading upriver from Sacramento to modern-day Red Bluff, Read the Plaque reported. A monument along the river remembers Leonidas Taylor, the ship’s ...

The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and ...

The meeting was hosted in Merced and included a luncheon and remarks from guest speaker, Assembly Agriculture Committee Chair Esmeralda Soria.

California rail authority favored Bay Area route over mandated Merced connection. Merced officials criticized lack of communication and questioned commitment. ACE rail expansion offers alternative ...

SEEN HIM, PLEASE CALL AUBURN POLICE. NEW. THIS MORNING, A PLANE CRASH IN MERCED COUNTY LEFT NO SURVIVORS. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS A SMALL PRIVATE PLANE CRASHED JUST SOUTH OF LOS BANOS AT AROUND 7:00 ...

The first notes of “Apocalipsis” don’t just play, they ignite. Horns burst like fireworks, percussion pounds like a heartbeat, and suddenly Miami feels hotter than usual. This is salsa reborn, carried ...

Whether she's playing a post-apocalyptic mother-to-be or a winged warrior screaming through the skies, Isabela Merced knows one thing to be true: "A woman with a plan is so unstoppable." All of this ...

EXCLUSIVE: Noah Jupe and Isabela Merced are set to star in the new thriller Psyche from director Agustina San Martin. San Martín will direct the film from a a screenplay by Katy Cavanagh-Jupe and San ...

Merced Library distributes up to 12,000 free water bottles during summer. PG&E grant supplies $10,000 to fund cooling centers through October 31, 2025. Cooling zones activate, when temperatures hit ...

Merced’s Hawkgirl is part of the superpowered squad known as the Justice Gang (working name) — a corporate-sponsored team of metahumans with questionable motives and unorthodox methods. Her iteration ...