San Joaquin County Local News

It’s been almost a half-century since I first heard the term “peripheral canal” uttered by William Gianelli, who was then-Gov. Ronald Reagan’s top water official. The project, in one form or another, had already been kicking around for decades.

As funds for climate change programs are cut, Democrats and environmentalists are pushing for a bond measure on the ballot to restore some funding.

In their May 21 meeeting, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors voted to raise their salaries from $144,733 to $166,936.

The Manteca Unified School District is allocating $1.4 million for the purchase of nearly 9 acres to expand the Nile Garden School campus.

Longtime Ripon Unified School District Area 5 Trustee Christina Orlando is resigning effective June 24.

On May 21, the California State Senate advanced reparations legislation, which will now be taken up by the state Assembly.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office reported a May 20 call about a mountain lion sighting in Lodi.

According to a Manteca Public Safety Tax Oversight Committee report, Measure M funds are paying for 18 firefighter and 20 police positions in the city.

Sacramento State will be home to the central office for the $10 million Black student advancement drive on all 23 California State University campuses.

The job action starting today at UC Santa Cruz isn’t about pay, but instead is in response to how UC deployed police to clear pro-Palestinian encampments on campuses.

The Manteca City Council is moving forward to increase maximum member compensation from the current $600 per month to a maximum of $1900 per month, to take effect in December.

The Thomas Toy Community Center at Fremont and Yosemite Avenue held an open house on May 17 ahead of its official opening in September.

The centerpiece of California’s water wars pits Gov. Newsom against local communities and environmentalists. A new report says the benefits of the tunnel exceed the cost since other water supplies would cost more.

The state’s multibillion-dollar shortfall shapes which spending bills survived the ‘suspense file’ hearings by the Assembly and Senate appropriations committees.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators spend the next few weeks fashioning a state budget that’s plagued by a multibillion-dollar deficit, they can’t count on a booming economy to make their task easier.

Pending legislation would lift requirements for California’s doctors to report all domestic abuse cases to police. The Assembly’s three physicians had different opinions.

Gov. Gavin Newsom launched the community school initiative with $4.1 billion in grants to connect students and their families to medical care, counseling and other services.

Residents and supporters of self-governing homeless "Camp Resolution" marched to Sacramento city hall on May 15 in opposition of city plans to close the camp.

Mosquito vector control agencies are preparing for mosquito season in San Joaquin and Sacramento counties.

In their May 14 meeting, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors approved $1.1 million in increased funding to be distributed across 19 fire districts in the county.