Galt News

Grape grower and winemaker Ron Silva works at his vineyard in Galt. He is among the chief promoters of Iberian varietals in Northern California.

The San Joaquin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is gearing up for its 37th annual installation and awards dinner, which will honor business leader John Aguilar as the namesake of one of the awards.

Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinness says he will have to lay off 209 deputies if the county cuts $57 million from his budget as proposed.

Thieves have once again targeted the Galt Lions Club fireworks stand. The troubled booth on Twin Cities Road has had its fair share of criminal activity over the past few years.

Police arrested a 26-year-old man Saturday after investigating a commercial burglary that officers say escalated into the assault and kidnapping of a 51-year-old man who required hospitalization.

Teens and plastic surgery June 25: NBC's chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, looks at the growing trend of teens getting plastic surgery.

If a San Joaquin Delta College satellite campus is to come to Calaveras County, it will be later than sooner, Supervisor Steve Wilensky announced Tuesday.

A federal jury has convicted two people, including a woman from Lodi, of conspiracy, mail fraud and money laundering in connection with an insurance scam, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday.

Instead of recording income of $4.3 million through April of this year, Lodi Memorial Hospital has experienced a loss of $2.1 million, according to President and CEO Joe Harrington.

At the dormant Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, it's possible to step through a truck-sized hole in the reactor building's 6-foot-thick concrete walls and stare into the chest of a former atom-smashing machine.

Milk is a big business in San Joaquin County. Dairies produced enough of the fluid food to bring in an estimated $466 million in 2007, according to the latest figures from the county agricultural commissioner.

An American fugitive who duped a Fort Langley family into letting him hide out in their home in late 2007 has lost his refugee claim and was deported to the U.S. to face a murder charge.

Way off topic, and way out of my area of expertise--my eyes glaze over at the mere words "health care reform"--but this article , about how universal access to health insurance would actually be great for self-employed people and small businesses , is worth a look.

The allusion is to John Galt, the hero in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged , who leads America's creative entrepreneurs in a strike against a wealth-sapping collectivist establishment and brings the economy to its knees.

Comment: Anslinger, on being a part of the final class in a one-school town : "I think there is something special about .

For a year and a half, Arthur Charles Carnes IV has fought deportation from Canada - arguing, even, that he was a refugee from the United States, according to authorities.

The Sacramento Bee's Crime blog is a comprehensive report of crime news, trends and information for your community and beyond.

The sign outside Clover Road Baptist Church, where Melissa Huckaby taught Sunday school, was knocked down late last week or early Sunday, broken in an apparent act of vandalism.

LEDE Signs of the times in the Anatolia subdivision, new homes offered at foreclosure prices and unused land with future hopeful use.

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