Happy Labor Day to All Who Celebrate

Stocktonia reports on the Stockton Mobile Community Response Team, which is dispatched to mental and behavioral health incidents as an alternative or addition to police.

A look at Gary Knackstedt who is running for reelection to the Lodi Unified School District Board of Education.

Garden Joy community garden is working with the Manteca Unified School District to help meet its goal of locally sourcing 20 percent of school meal produce by the next school year.

The City of Manteca community benefit agreements with three recently approved marijuana dispensaries aim to generate a minimum of $1 million for city coffers.

In their August 27 meeting, the Stockton City Council discussed how to adapt policies on homeless encampments following the US Supreme Court Grants Pass ruling.

In an August 27 special meeting, the Tracy City Council finalized the response to the criticisms and findings of a civil grand jury report.

In their August 20 meeting, the Tracy City Council voted to approve moving forward with development of a 38-home subdivision of a 5-acre site on Byron Road.

In their August 27 meeting, the San Joaquin Board of Supervisors directed staff to explore a project to bring a medical school to the county, possibly to be located at the San Joaquin General Hospital campus in the French Camp.

A look at the training program for beginner farmers offered by the Center for Land-Based Learning in Woodland.

In their August 27 meeting the Sacramento City Council approved an update to the police military equipment policy.

The Measure Q November ballot measure to increase the City of Manteca sales tax by three-quarters of a cent gained support from the Manteca Chamber of Commerce.

With almost $15 million on hand, a look at current and future community park projects in the pipeline for the City of Manteca.

A look at the career of Susan Talamantes Eggman as she reaches the end of her last term as state senator from Stockton.

With the addition of two new firefighter paramedics, Ripon Fis=re State #1 is fully staffed.

A look at the 2023 San Joaquin County agriculture report: $3.22 billion in production by 3,340 mostly small family-owned farms.

New Stanislaus State President Britt Rios-Ellis shared her views on the bright future of the Stockton satellite campus.

CalFire received the first of five planes promised by the federal government, a former Coast Guard C-130 Hercules air tanker.

California’s unemployment rate, 5.2% of its labor force in July, is no longer the nation’s highest after months of having that dubious distinction.

Unable to jam through bills he says will lower California gas prices, Gov. Newsom calls the Legislature back into session.

The Legislature is willing to guarantee $500 million annually to affordable housing developers, but with a caveat.

A large apartment complex in San Rafael’s majority-Latino Canal neighborhood. Latino families in Marin County are far more likely than white families to have trouble making ends meet, a new report finds.

Early warning systems save lives during disasters, but a recent FEMA survey found that only a third of people are signed up. Use this resource to find your county’s emergency alert sign-up page.

Some Democrats are pushing bills that could put their colleagues on the hot seat in an election year. The authors say they’re representing their constituents and there’s never a perfect time for votes.

California Highway Patrol officers received historically high raises in 2022 and 2023, but it continues to face a high vacancy rate of 16%.

Pharmacy benefit managers attempt to negotiate cost savings for insurers. California is considering new rules that would require them to pass their discounts on to consumers.

A trio of California Democratic lawmakers say they’re frustrated by high cost estimates that helped kill their health care legislation. Did the Newsom administration inflate the numbers to quietly kill the bills?

About 4 in 10 Californians are carrying medical debt. Lawmakers are advancing a bill that would prevent that debt from affecting credit scores.