Biden Comes Through for the Monterey Bay Area

The only submitted bid came in at over twice the estimated cost.

Measure R, calling for drug screening of recipients of aid, was approved to go on the November ballot by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors.

On August 7, California Governor Newsom declared that counties needed to do more to clear homeless encampments or risk loss of state funding.

Property owners in the Ripon Consolidated Fire District declined to pass Proposition 218.

Manteca Mayor Gary Singh expressed concerns that a Manteca sales tax measure on the November ballot for improved city fire service would in effect subsidize fire protection in Ripon.

River Islands High welcomes its first students for the 2024-2025 school year.

A look back at Dr. Michelle Rodriguez's first year as superintendent of the Stockton Unified School District.

Five candidates are in the running, so far, for election to be Mayor of Lathrop on November 5.

With its opening still months away, the Thomas Toy Teen Center is seeking donations and volunteers, and is hosting an open house on August 15.

Though not a record, the City of Manteca issued permits for 978 housing units in the last fiscal year.

Residents of Camp Resolution in Sacramento announced their intention of remaining on the city-owned lot despite the lease expiring, and are seeking an injunction preventing eviction.

The California Department of Health Care Services has granted $15 million to provide more mental health services to the homeless, whose numbers, according to the recent point-in-time count, have doubled over the last 2 years.

If the $10 billion state bond measure to fund school facility upgrades is approved by voters on November 5, millions of dollars will trickle down to a list of approved local projects.

A proposal has been submitted for hundreds of new homes to be built on a 58.45-acre lot on Sedan Avenue in Manteca.

The state’s landlords see rising insurance costs, so they say they’re going to have to raise rents. But they complain about laws that limit how much they can do so.

Some California agencies are offering incentives and hosting workshops for school districts that want to build affordable housing for teachers.

Sky-high rent is among Californians’ biggest concerns. Nearly 30% of tenants spend more than half their income on rent; and the median rent is $2,850 a month, 33% higher than the national average.

Two propositions on the Nov. 5 ballot address this issue — though one does so in a rather roundabout way.

The chemical, used for decades, can harm babies’ developing brains. Farmworkers and people living near fields are most at risk. The EPA issued a rare emergency order.

Legislators are pushing ahead with a retail theft bill package in their continued opposition of Proposition 36 — a November ballot measure backed by law enforcement groups and Republicans (and some Democrats) that would roll back parts of 2014’s Prop. 47.

So many intense wildfires all at once require an intricate chess game for maneuvering firefighters and equipment around the U.S.

A critical new federal audit calls out California for doing too little to prevent fraudulent spending of homelessness funds. Nearly $320 million was at risk.

The Senate appropriations committee sent dozens upon dozens of bills — that have a price tag of at least $50,000 to $150,000 and that may also be politically dicey — to the dreaded suspense file, where many could die quickly on Aug. 15.