Wildlife habitat restoration, gas prices, former Turlock priest’s citizenship: Today’s top stories

Three stories are shaping the news in the Modesto area, from a riverside habitat restoration to climbing gas prices and a federal move to strip citizenship from a former Turlock priest. Here’s a quick look at what happened.

Here are Monday’s key stories:

• Pacific Gas & Electric Co. wrapped up a 106-acre riverside habitat restoration west of Modesto on May 1, completing the project with nonprofit River Partners and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service at the north border of the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge.
• California drivers paid an average of about $6.16 per gallon for regular gas on May 11, roughly $1.65 above the national average and about $1.50 higher than on March 2, as the war in Iran continues to push prices up.
• The Trump administration’s Department of Justice filed four denaturalization claims against former Turlock priest Oscar Alberto Pelaez, who was convicted in 2002 of 13 counts of sexual assault against a child and allegedly lied about his crimes when he obtained U.S. citizenship in May 2001.