Both the Merced Union High School District and the Merced City School District consider student and staff safety a top ...

Literacy proficiency scores for elementary school students in Merced fell by 8 percentage points during the pandemic. Five ...

Following a confirmed measles case in Fresno County with potential exposures in Madera County, health officials are urging the public how avoidable these ...

Feb. 25 The Department of Agriculture released an updated food price outlook report for the year predicting that egg prices ...

Bird flu is not just for birds. It is about public health, agriculture and an economic crisis. That was the final takeaway of ...

Read more on our AI policy here. A new wildfire was reported today at 5:40 a.m. in Merced County. The wildfire has been burning on private land. Currently, there is no information on the ...

Read more on our AI policy here. A new prescribed burn, called Three East And West, was initiated today at 11:25 a.m. in Merced County. The prescribed fire has been burning on federal land managed ...

A female deer tick (xodes scapularis), one of the two tick species that spread ehrlichiosis in the U.S. © KPixMining via Shutterstock A person’s precious organ ...

Read more on our AI policy here. The pile burning project, named California Gold, was initiated today at 2:41 p.m. in Merced County. The prescribed fire has been burning on federal land managed by ...

In late January, U.S. health officials announced that a new strain of avian flu, H5N9, was discovered on a duck farm in Merced County, California. They quarantined the farm and destroyed nearly ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally printed in the Merced County Times newspaper on Feb. 13, 2025. This year’s three-part Town Hall series hosted by the Merced City Council came to an end last ...

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will release approximately $20 million in funding for previously approved contracts that had been frozen by the Trump administration’s push to ...