San Joaquin County Local News

Read on for information about how long wait times at a Stockton VA clinic led to a new national law to improve veteran health care.

Read on for more information about the announced retirement of The Ripon Unified School District Superintendent Ziggy Roberson and a look back on her tenure.

Read on for details about the upgrades coming to the Big League Dreams sports complex as part of a new lease agreement between the City of Manteca and operator Unrivaled Sports.

Read on for more information about a proposed rate increase to fund $30 million in upgrades to the Manteca water system.

A look at how the more than $2 million in special taxes collected in the last year by the City of Manteca will be spent.

Three days after immensely destructive and deadly wildfires broke out in and around Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a $322.3 billion state budget with a positive revenue forecast “based on an assumption of continued but slowing economic growth.”

In their January 14 meeting, the Sacramento City Council approved the salary for interim City Manager Leyne Milstein and agreed to keeping ormer City Manager Howard Chan on as a "special advisor." Read on to learn more.

A new bill would remove the right of California’s female transgender athletes in to participate in high school sports teams that match their gender identity.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan to produce a cheap, generic insulin for the 3.2 million Californians with diabetes is behind the schedule he announced and unlikely to make it to market for several years, industry experts say.

Jennielynn Holmes stood in the middle of a make-shift evacuation center when the scope of the crisis hit her.

Key moisture measurements are only 2% to 5% of average, leaving dusty soils. And the recent swing from wet to dry is among the most extreme on record. This combination of climatic conditions crossed into a danger zone, priming much of Southern California for wind-whipped fires.

In a striking setback to reduce California’s air pollution but a win for trucking companies, state regulators have walked away from their ambitious plan to phase out diesel trucks less than a week before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.

A subdivision of over 200 homes is being proposed for Sedan Avenue in Manteca. Read on to learn more about this project which would require an expansion of the city limits and annexation.

Former member Stephen Dresser was appointed to a vacant seat on the Lathrop City Council to serve a two-year provisional term. Read on to learn more.

Read on to learn more about the project to develop a homeless navigation center on an 8.1-acre parcel on South Main Street in Manteca.

Read on for details about a proposed 264-unit apartment development on a 9.2-acre parcel on Yosemite Avenue in Manteca.

Read on to learn more about the huge active-shooter simulation which took place at a local high school campus involving public safety and first responder from agencies throughout the south San Joaquin Valley involving 270 people.

Read on to learn about the measures taken to harden and protect the lone remaining house of the neighborhoodfrom the Pacific Palisades fire in Southern California.

A presumptive case of H5N1 bird flu has been identified in a child who resides in San Francisco, the city’s Department of Public Health announced.The child had a fever and conjunctivitis but did not need to be hospitalized and has since made a full recovery, public health officials said Friday.

Federal funding for rural schools goes to 39 California counties. School districts in those communities consider the money a lifeline.