Oakdale News

Oakdale High School senior Amanda Martin won the $2,000 first prize in this year's American Heritage Scholarship Series competition.

Modesto businessman Sanjiv Chopra has leased a 20,000-square-foot facility at 1880 E. Hammer Lane, in the Costco shopping center, where he plans to open a new Gold's Gym next spring.

BRIAN RAMSAY / bramsay@modbee.com Ambulance on scene at the Hudson Station post office on Sylvan near Oakdale in Modesto after people were complaining of a strong smell in the lobby on Tuesday afternoon .

Black Friday shoppers were out in full force this morning, with lines and openings reported throughout the northern San Joaquin Valley.

Some Oakdale residents possibly in the path of a future expressway are bucking a tendency to fight it at all costs.

The goats pay no mind as the cars pull into and out of the Oakdale Shopping Center.

The Cunha family thought they'd be spending Thanksgiving - and Christmas - in the hospital with their daughter.

Hailee Cunha, 11, of Oakdale, returned to her family and friends with fanfare Wednesday night, after suffering an accident while practicing at the USA Gymnastics facility in Modesto, where she fell from the bars and landed on her head.

Oroville Police Officers Association will conduct its annual Shop with a Cop program Dec.

George E. Golding, who worked at newspapers in Riverbank, San Bernardino, Gustine, Eureka, San Francisco and San Mateo, died Nov.

A folk art show and holiday gift sale will be held Nov. 27-29 at a barn in Oakdale.

Find your thrill again at Blueberry Hill. The longtime Livingston landmark, which was torn down in 1994 to expand Highway 99, is back with a new name and owner.

The final results from the Nov. 3 election were released Monday, and a cliffhanger in Empire is over.

Whether it's flipping burgers, shaking signs on street corners or mowing lawns, the jobs available to most of today's teens don't have a high "cool factor." Nor do they hold much promise for long-term career dreams.

Call it a tale of two home buyer tax credits. One is an $8,000 credit from the federal government and the other a $10,000 reprieve from the state of California on never-before-occupied homes.

Firefighters say it will be several days before a barn ignited by a nearby hay fire is extinguished.

A barn fire in Farmington that destroyed thousands of dollars worth of hay early Wednesday was expected to continue burning for several days, according to San Joaquin County fire officials.

Addison DeMoura still wants to do business in Oakdale, even after drug agents raided his medical marijuana dispensary and took him from his house -- handcuffed and in underwear, he said -- as a newspaper reporter snapped photographs.

A 16-year-old girl was injured Monday night when she was hit by a car at the intersection of F Street and Bryan Avenue.

Army Spc. Robert Gonzalez can't wait to get home to Modesto from his nearly yearlong deployment overseas, but the 19-year-old soldier says he's going to miss a few things about Kosovo just the same.