Stockton News

Two mornings a week, Carmen Cobian and Dayana Alvarez have a very special play date in a cramped classroom at Walton Special Center.

California prison officials have submitted a construction plan intended to expand medical and mental health treatment for inmates.

Pink was the color of the night at Stockton Arena as the Thunder promoted breast cancer awareness.

California prison officials have submitted a construction plan intended to expand medical and mental health treatment for inmates.

Two former city officials said a substantial increase in the projected deficit at Stockton Marina was caused by project revisions proposed by Revitalization Director Dave Harzoff and endorsed by the City Council, not by a year-old cost analysis Mayor Ann Johnston called a "wild guess" and Harzoff said was flawed.

Elected officials Tuesday decided to join local business leaders in taking legal action against the state over the construction of a new prison hospital on the outskirts of Stockton.

A home was destroyed and its residents displaced Wednesday afternoon in a fire that also destroyed a gas meter, sending gas rushing into the flames.

Six weeks after firing Superintendent Tony Amato, Stockton Unified trustees have taken the first steps in their search for a permanent replacement.

Electric Vehicles International unveiled plans Wednesday to produce all-electric trucks and delivery vans, as well as a two-seat electric city car and plug-in hybrid car conversions, at its new Stockton assembly plant in coming months.

Authorities are now investigatng details after Stockton police are after a person accused of shooting two men.

The Stockton City Council voted unanimously, 7-0, to challenge the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Health Care Facility Stockton Environmental Impact Report .

The attorney for a doctor accused of stealing a dead patient's Rolex watch in a Stockton emergency room said Monday that he's ready to prove in a trial that his client didn't do it.

The Commission also provides direction with respect to budget and capital improvements to these same facilities.

Police are seeking a suspect in the shooting of two men Monday evening in south Stockton.

A Wetlands Water District representative said in a hearing Monday that new Delta legislation would provide "a clear path toward building new conveyance" to send more water to the south San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.

With budget cuts likely in the middle of the school year and almost certainly coming in the next fiscal year, Stockton Unified's trustees tonight consider a measure that would strengthen the board's oversight of spending and could set the stage for a hiring freeze.

A 15-year-old Stockton girl hit by a car as she walked to school last Friday died over the weekend from her injuries.

To celebrate, Mimis Cafe will hold a special "Meet Me at Mimi's" event on November 5 and award $3,000 worth of gift cards to the first 75, 18-year-and-older guests in line.

A 3-month-old puppy in training to become a guide dog is missing in Lodi. Gannon, a black male Labrador Retriever, may have been last seen on Saturday in the Thornton Road area north of Stockton, between Eight Mile and De Vries roads.

The Soul Stalkers Motorcycle Club became food stalkers Sunday, feeding nearly 300 people warm meals of hot dogs, chili beans, chips and water on a crisp fall morning under the Crosstown Freeway downtown.