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Featured StoriesThe two runoff candidates for Modesto mayor, Garrad Marsh and Brad Hawn, said they agree to some extent with the City Council's decision last week to approve Modesto's general plan area for the Agricultural Preservation Plan 2050.
Marsh said he would prefer that the city designate a smaller area using its "sphere of influence" boundaries. Hawn said the regional planning needs to continue.
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Redevelopment touches everyone. In three days, change that to "touched." On Wednesday, California's more than 400 redevelopment agencies, credited with creating jobs and impressive buildings, easing blight and helping poor families fix or get into homes, become extinct.
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Modesto's Parks, Recreation and Neighborhoods Department has updated its graffiti abatement Web page, launching an online tool for residents to report spray-painted vandalism throughout the city without having to pick up a phone.
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Five mornings each week, Carlo DeFerrari emerges from his small apartment inside the Skyline assisted living complex. He then catches a ride over to the Tuolumne County Library about 600 yards away to continue his research. DeFerrari, 89, is Tuolumne County's official historian.
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Brad Hawn's campaign charges that the 91 homes built on land Marsh sold to Merced-based Heritage Homes contributed $1.68 million to the public facilities deficit in Village I.
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The Stanislaus District has never had such a rich recruiting period: Three of the top linemen in the nation, a blue-ribbon QB, a promising offensive tackle and a dedicated prospect-turned-recruit.
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The latest chapter in Canada's quest to become a full-blown oil superpower unfolded this month in a village gym on the British Columbia coast.
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After more than 20 years in the Stockton Diocese, the past 12 as pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Modesto, the popular and sometimes controversial Rev. Joseph Illo is leaving this summer to take a position in Southern California.
I have lived in Modesto most of my life. What has happened to our small, clean, somewhat safe town? I moved back three years ago and am more often than not wondering why?
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A homeless man who was stuck in thick mud near the Rio Grande river in Albuquerque for three days was rescued Saturday after some high school students on a field trip heard him yelling for help, authorities said.
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PARK CITY, Utah - In his more-than-distinguished career, Frank Langella has become Richard Nixon, Clark Kent's editor Perry White and a count named Dracula. So how did he end up playing a part opposite a robot in a sweltering East Coast summer? The answer is surprisingly simple: "Christopher Walken turned it down."
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