Modesto CA

Looking for something useful without spending a dime? Stockton neighbors are giving away all kinds of free items this week — from furniture and home goods to pets and garden materials.

April 11, 2026 – Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department officials report that on April 3, 2026, at approximately 2:22 p.m. (1422 hours), deputies assigned to the Community Resource Unit (CRU) were conducting surveillance in Empire, in an attempt to locate a parolee at large, Jimmy Gill, a 37-year-old male. During...

The Modesto Police Department is investigating the death of a 37-year-old Modesto resident who was found by a Tuolumne River boat ramp in the 700 block of Neece Drive on Thursday. What MPD originally described as a suspicious death is now officially a homicide investigation, the department posted on Facebook on Friday. MPD responded to a report around 4 p.m. Thursday. Officers...

NEWMAN — The Newman Police Department will conduct traffic safety operations throughout April with a focus on distracted driving, the agency announced. “Distracted driving is a contributing factor in many traffic collisions,” Sgt. Ashley Williams said in a statement. “It’s a dangerous behavior that places those who share our roadways in unnecessary danger.”

Ernest and Julio Gallo launched their winery in 1933 in a small building at 11th and D streets in Modesto. The brothers would grow it into the world’s largest, headquartered half a mile east on Yosemite Boulevard. The Gallo Founders Building, as it is now called, remains in company hands. The only indication of its history has been a plaque installed in 1994 along...

Modesto City Schools officially opened its agricultural farm for students at Modesto High School on April 9. All Modesto high schools now offer the hands-on educational experience of raising livestock and tending to crops at an agricultural site. “This space represents a significant investment in our students and their futures,” Modesto High Principal Phuc Pham-Goulart said during her speech at a ribbon...

Gunfire struck a home with two people inside in Stockton on early Thursday morning, police said. Officers responded to reports of shots fired shortly after midnight in the 1200 block of Doray Court, where a 29-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man were inside a residence that was hit by gunfire, according to the Stockton Police Department.

A severe thunderstorm warning comes as an unusually unstable spring weather pattern creates favorable conditions for severe thunderstorms across California.

A long-vacant lot in South Stockton is finally on track to become homes for older residents instead of just another empty stretch of pavement. Fairview Terrace, a 76-unit, all-electric affordable senior-housing community, is slated to break ground as soon as April 2026. According to CBS Sacramento, the development is planned...

State Assemblymember Rhodesia Ransom (D-Stockton) warned Wednesday that California is quickly running out of time to contain the rapid spread of invasive golden mussels, an emerging threat to the state’s water infrastructure, agriculture, recreation and ratepayers. Golden mussels, first detected in California near the Port of Stockton in 2024,...