Stockton News

When Rahm Emanuel helped foist on America the unready, unsteady and unsustainable healthcare religion known as Obamacare, one wonders in retrospect whether he had in mind another unready, unsteady and unsustainable government religion: union health benefits for government workers.

Two robbery suspects were foiled when a Burger King employee slipped out the back door and made off with their getaway car.

Stockton may be lowballing creditors in its current Bankruptcy Court proposal and an equitable settlement - while also keeping employee pensions intact and maintaining current services - may cost $20 million a year, a University of the Pacific economist says.

"Home values in the San Joaquin County community in the first quarter of this year rose 11.4 percent compared with the same three months in 2012, ranking Stockton as the third-fastest appreciating metro in the nation." Whoopee.

A 5.7 earthquake struck near a small town northeast of Chico at 8:47 p.m. Thursday, according to the United States Geological Service.

Street people and the homeless have been joined in line by the working poor, students, senior citizens and families that used to consider themselves middle class.

A store employee turned the tables on a devious duo during an armed robbery in Stockton Thursday night, say police.

Local law enforcement agencies are launching Memorial Day Weekend DUI campaigns to catch motorists driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

Fresno County is continuing to see sluggish employment growth, at only about 1.2% this year, according to the latest quarterly economic forecast issued Thursday by the University of the Pacific in Stockton.

Local civic and business officials, businesspeople and workers came together Thursday to protest Gov.

Good news on the job front is coming out of Stockton, according to a new economic forecast from the University of the Pacific.

A 31-year-old Stockton man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for growing and trafficking marijuana.

"I would name it Fluffy," Noelle said to her chaperone during a field trip to the Animal Protection League of Stockton's rescue facility on Murray Drive.

May 23--When the Doors are mentioned, Jim Morrison's name immediately follows. Yet, Ray Manzarek's always-inventive keyboard adventures were an equally indelible aspect of the Los Angeles band's mysterious, striking and strangely spooky sound.

Two men, one armed with a black handgun, entered a business in the 600 block of West Martin Luther King Jr.

The 13th Stockton Opera Guild Kathe Underwood Scholarship Competition was held recently at the historic St.

Proterra Inc. has added San Joaquin Regional Transit District , Stockton, CA, to the list of cities currently operating its buses.

A Washington woman was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of drug possession in east Stockton after California Highway Patrol officers found suspected narcotics in a vehicle she was riding in, authorities said.

A law firm representing a Stockton creditor in bankruptcy is accused of playing dirty by raiding attorneys from an opposing firm that represents the California Public Employees' Retirement System.

A woman from Stockton has proven that with hard work and perseverance, dreams can come true.