Stanislaus County News

Arrests for driving under in the influence of alcohol or drugs in Stanislaus County over Memorial Day were more than half off the total from last year over the same holiday weekend, authorities said.

The good news is that California's unemployment rate has dipped to its lowest level in three years.

Knowing how much energy you use and how much methane and exhaust you produce is the first step to living greener.

A Modesto man has covered his front lawn in crosses to honor local military men and women, as well as local law enforcement members.

MODESTO – Inmates with serious mental illnesses deemed incompetent to stand trial are languishing in California jail cells for months as they wait for state hospital beds to open up, according to advocates, jail officials and family members.

More than 27,000 customers outside of cities in Stanislaus County are facing the largest annual raise in garbage rates in four years.

Authorities will begin Monday morning to restrict debris-burning hours in rural areas of Tuolumne and Calaveras counties as well as eastern portions of Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties.

A revived plan to build luxury town houses near the Del Rio Country Club is causing controversy in this wealthy rural community north of Modesto.

MODESTO, May 27, 2012 -- Authorities on Friday afternoon safely detonated a suspicious device that appeared to be a pipe bomb, which was found in a minivan driven by man suspected of robbing a northeast Modesto bank earlier in the day.

May 27, 2012 -- Modesto Junior College has received $2.7 million in grants to continue its outreach programs to help high school students who are low-income or first-generation. The five-year grants from the U.S. Department of Education will fund the college's TRIO Upward Bound programs.

Susan Rich and Rick Bartkowski received promotions at the Stanislaus County Office of Education.

Police used a GPS device Friday afternoon to track down a man suspected of brutally raping a woman a day earlier inside a restroom at Kewin Park in Modesto’s La Loma neighborhood.

The American Red Cross Capital Region Chapter's annual Heroes Breakfast will be held June 6 to honor "community members from Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties who have performed extraordinary acts of courage." Heroes will be recognized in these categories: animal rescue, good Samaritan , law enforcement, medical professional, military , military , ... (more)

Info: The library is hosting a series of informational classes presented by the attorneys at Cash-Dudley, Speiller and Torres.

Tuolumne Narcotics Team along with the CHP netted nearly a quarter pound of meth with a street value of about $3500 dollars.

A judge on Friday morning declined to review a bail amount for an office manager of a Modesto bail bonds business accused of handcuffing clients and threatening them for hours.

A preliminary hearing has been set for July 23 for a Ceres man accused of murder in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy nine months ago in south Modesto.

This tiny Gold Rush town turned a page in its history Friday, the bittersweet beginning of an endless summer.

Modesto, CA- A neighborhood in northeast Modesto has been temporarily cordoned off after Modesto Police officers detained a male believed to have just committed a bank robbery in Northeast Modesto.

Over the last 10 years, Merced County has been part of a congressional district that extended north, including much of Stanislaus County and part of San Joaquin County.