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Some of the best places in California hide right along ordinary country roads, where you least expect them. Picture pulling over at what looks like a simple roadside fruit stand, only to discover fresh pies cooling on racks, a shady pond full of turtles, and playgrounds echoing with laughter. The...

At a time when the workforce needs more dental hygienists, air conditioning repair technicians and welders, a San Joaquin County-based lawmaker is leading an effort to muster more funds for vocational education. Assemblymember Rhodesia Ransom, D-Stockton, said San Joaquin County schools will receive an additional $4.2

A Lodi police officer opened fire on an armed person inside the McDonald's at 200 W. Lodi Avenue on Monday morning after officers responding to 911 calls reportedly heard screaming and gunshots coming from within the restaurant. The shooting happened around 9:30 a.m. following reports that an armed individual was activ

Stanislaus County has confirmed its first human case of West Nile virus for 2026, health officials announced, as state surveillance data shows mosquito-borne virus activity running at a five-year high across California. The news comes just days after crews sprayed pesticide over Empire and rural west Modesto to knock d

The Tracy Unified School District is now officially student phone free. It comes after California passed a new law requiring all school districts within the state to adopt an official phone policy.

MERCED, Calif. (FOX26) — The California Highway Patrol announced Newport Road was closed between Sunny Acres Avenue and East Avenue in Ballico in Merced County due to a large fire at a recycling facility. The fire is on Newport Road near East Avenue. They say shredded tire piles are...

(FOX40.COM) — Officials in Turlock encourage local residents to remain indoors as hazardous smoke billows from a large tire fire at a recycling facility. The Merced County Fire Department is responding to the fire in the 13000 block of Newport Road in Ballico, the site of American Tire Recycling, LLC. The small communi

(FOX40.COM) — A man was killed in a car crash over the weekend in Tuolumne County, the California Highway Patrol said. Officers were dispatched around 11:19 a.m. Sunday to a crash reported on northbound La Grange Road, south of Avenida Lugo North. A 57-year-old man from Oakdale driving a 2008 Chevrolet Silverado at an

It’s been eight years since Toys R Us closed on Sisk Road in Modesto — almost a decade of residents wondering what will come next for the large, vacant space along Highway 99. At some points, there were answers. In 2021, U-Haul purchased the building and used it as a temporary showroom with plans to renovate it as a st

Counties up and down the state are reporting decreases in their homeless populations. This year, as we're starting to see some of the preliminary results from the 2026 homeless point-in-time counts, many California counties are again reporting progress. San Joaquin County, for example, reduced the number of homeless pe