Empire News

A Modesto woman suffered critical injuries when she lost control of her car and it slid across five lanes of Yosemite Boulevard before slamming into a tree Wednesday evening.

Farm leaders concerned about proposed water sales to San Francisco by the Modesto Irrigation District offered Tuesday to discuss raising their own rates.

Sonya Harrigfeld's secret can't remain under wraps any longer: After nearly eight years of leading Stanislaus County's departments of environmental resources and parks and recreation, she's retiring.

When I was approached about taking over the news operation at the Merced Sun-Star, I jumped at the opportunity.

Long before studios, hippies, method actors and reality-show wannabes headed out west, the Pacific Coast was a destination for farmers, miners, prospectors and other wagon-wheeling homesteaders who were looking for a new way of life.