A 102-YEAR-OLD Stockton man was bumped from San Joaquin County’s voting rolls because officials mistakenly thought he had died.Marvin Lykins, a retired physician and World War II veteran, was removed from the rolls last month in what the county Registrar …
THE CENTRAL VALLEY’S LGBTQ+ community is once again learning what a difference a presidential administration makes. And it’s adapting.Since Donald Trump returned to the White House last month, his administration has unleashed a wave of anti-transgender, anti-diversity and anti-inclusive policies …
THE SAN JOAQUIN County Sheriff’s Office has raised almost half of the $500,000 in private donations it needs to complete its memorial to law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. But the clock is ticking.“We would like to …
ALMOST A YEAR and a half ago, a San Joaquin County sheriff’s investigator presented a judge with a document that helped launch a criminal case against Stockton school board member AngelAnn Flores. Across nearly 40 pages, that search warrant affidavit …
THE STOCKTON CITY COUNCIL voted unanimously to approve $236,479 from the city’s general fund reserves to pay for increased security measures at City Hall.The security measures include creating a full time security services manager, to the tune of $49,724. The …
THE STOCKTON CITY COUNCIL has unanimously ordered a moratorium on smoke shops after hearing reports of tobacco products being sold to minors or stores carrying banned products, such as flavored vapes or cannabis-related industrial hemp.The council’s 45-day moratorium, approved at …
A man was arrested on suspicion of illegally dumping petroleum waste into a Stockton waterway, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said. Multiple agencies responded on Sept. 28, 2024 to a report of petroleum product released near the Smith …
FAVIOLA AMBRIZ WORKS with preschool children in Oxnard and received frantic calls from parents 15 minutes before school started one day last month. ICE agents had been spotted near the school — news that spread rapidly through the local radio …
Drivers soon may want to be on their best behavior when rolling through the streets of Tracy.Tracy police recently announced the launch of a new red-light camera program that will see several cameras placed at intersections around the city in …
A new bill by a Bay Area state senator aims to create a special fund to help clean up so-called forever chemicals in California’s water supply.Senate Bill 454 was introduced by Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, on Tuesday and, if passed by …
STOCKTON RESIDENTS ARE going to be plugging into a new electricity provider in two months — and bills may get a bit cheaper.Ava Community Energy will become the city’s — as well as Lathrop’s — default power provider starting in …
Boat launches at all East Bay Municipal Utility District reservoirs will remain closed in an effort to keep invasive golden mussels from infesting the public water supply, the agency said.Golden mussels haven’t been detected in EBMUD’s seven raw water reservoirs, …
