San Joaquin County Business, Economy & Jobs Articles

In a recent interview with Sacramento News & Review Publisher Jeff vonKaenel, California Workforce Development Board Executive Director Kaina Pereira shared his vision for workforce...

TRUTH BE TOLD, there’s a lot of white trucks in Modesto.White Dodge Rams, white GMC Sierras, white F-150s, white Ford Transit vans, white Suburbans, white Silverados, white Chevy Colorados. So many white trucks, all of them American-made: a sure sign …

IT IS YET to be seen how a backlash against Elon Musk’s government budget-cutting efforts will affect Tesla sales. But based on recent news reports, the prospects don’t look good.A dip could hurt efforts to convert to clean cars in …

California stands as America’s agricultural powerhouse, growing half of its fruits and vegetables. Here’s how California farming has shaped the state, from the early missions to today’s “factories in the field.”

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 …

Small business optimism across the nation fell a bit in January but for the third consecutive month, came in higher than its 51-year average, according to the release Feb. 11 of the monthly Small Business Optimism Index by the National …

Founded as a business organization in 1915, the Kiwanis Club now serves millions of children worldwide.

“This is a local story about a global issue, the future of water. In a three-part series of field reports and podcasts, Bay City News reporter Ruth Dusseault looks at the tunnel’s stakeholders, its engineering challenges, and explores the preindustrial …

SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY’S output of agriculture products declined last year as grapes, milk, almonds and cherries fell in value, according to new data. Released last month, the San Joaquin County Crop Report, a yearly economic data study that measures sales, …

A higher minimum wage for health care workers that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law is set to take effect in two weeks, but he is racing to delay it because of its potential impact on the state budget deficit.

Countless blue seats designated for San Joaquin Delta College faculty at Thursday evening’s graduation ceremony in Stockton were empty in boycott of contract negotiations.

They were odd jobs, but somebody had to do them. On International Workers’ Day, one peripatetic laborer shares his career lowlights.

The California Garlic Festival is leaving Stockton and headed to the Merced County fairgrounds this summer.

Stockton Unified School District teachers demonstrated outside the school district headquarters this week and voiced their frustrations with labor negotiations during the district’s board meeting.

THE JOKE AT Ranch Coffee Shop on Sunday was that owner Dorothy Clare had injured herself in a fall so she was taking “early retirement” — after only 68½ years.  

Over 80 Stockton youth residents ages 16-19 can now apply for a four-week paid summer employment program, city officials said. 

Based in California’s most iconic vacation spot, Katherine Hill celebrates Tahoe Guide’s 42nd birthday.

“Intelligent” speed-limiting technology will be required in all new California cars starting in 2027, if a new law authored by San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener passes.

In NYT’s “The Farmers Had What the Billionaires Wanted,” we meet a man who wants to build a city in the middle of nowhere, and folks who are slowing him down.

California Forever, the company behind a proposed new city in Solano County, will submit a ballot measure seeking an exemption from local laws to allow development on the massive project to proceed.