Stockton CA

Rain and thunderstorms will move through Stockton and San Joaquin County this week before dry and pleasant conditions return, according to the National Weather Service. A storm system is moving through Northern California and is already bringing light to moderate rain showers to areas of the Central Valley Monday afternoon, the NWS.

A California man who brought equipment across the country to manufacture fake identification cards for delivery drivers has been sentenced in federal court in Buffalo. Miguel Angel Guevara-Murillo, 35, of Stockton, was sentenced to time served — approximately nine months — after being convicted of possessing device-making equipment used to create counterfeit IDs, federal prosecutors said.

The city of Modesto has appointed longtime firefighter Shanon Evans as the new fire chief of the Modesto Fire Department, officials announced Monday. Evans, who has served as interim fire chief since December, brings more than three decades of fire service experience to the role, according to a city news release. His predecessor as chief was Kevin Wise. “Chief Evans has risen through service...

Lodi's Vintner's Square Shopping Center sold in March for a combined $23,325,000 to Lodi Exchange LLC and EP Winter Park LLC for the larger portion and F&M Bank for the smaller portion of the center. Visintainer Group, a Fresno-based brokerage firm, announced the sale in late March through a news release. Vintner's Square Shopping Center is located on South Lower Sacramento Road...

Welcome to the latest installment of The Week in Zinfandel. If I missed your post or story please send me a link and I will be sure to include it next week. Zinfandel Chronicles reviews the 2022 Turley Zinfandel Juvenile. Jess Lander writes She left Wine Country after her fiancé’s...

“No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.” James Madison. Virtually no one disputes the fundamental conflict of interest principle expressed by James Madison in the Federalist Number Ten. In fact, Madison himself derived the principle from ancient Roman law, where it’s expressed in Latin as...

LODI, Calif. — For many entrepreneurs, owning a business is the dream. But in Lodi, some food truck owners say that dream has come with a years-long wait. Catha Pfister, owner of San Joaquin County's Rise and Shine Coffee Co., said she is passionate about coffee and wants to bring her food truck into the city where she lives, but Lodi's rules have kept...

A man accused of killing a woman last December was committed to a state hospital this month. Luis Zavalza, 47, is charged with the murder of Arianna Buzenes, who was killed on Dec. 12, 2025. Her body was found outside a Stockton church. Zavalza also faces an enhancement of using a deadly or dangerous weapon – a knife. On the day Buzenes was found, the...

Galt police say a routine evening traffic stop turned into a gun arrest on April 18 at about 6:20 p.m., after officers watched a car speeding and making what they describe as an unsafe pass on the right shoulder near a bicycle lane. Inside the vehicle, officers reported finding a loaded short-barreled rifle along with several high-capacity magazines. Two people were...

(FOX40.COM) — The Stockton police Department is investigating a stabbing that left one person hospitalized. SPD said officers responded to reports of a stabbing on Sunday around 3:53 a.m. on 110 West Sonora Street in the Seaport District. According to officers, a 22-year-old man was stabbed with “a sharp object.” He was taken to the […]