By JIM CUNNINGHAM & FLIP HASSETT Special to the Times There is not much written information or images about the old small ...

It’s mid-August and valley music fans are already bracing for Aftershock — the largest rock, punk and metal festival on the ...

Facing a final 2025-26 fiscal budget hearing on Sept. 23, members of the Merced County Board of Supervisors were presented ...

The start of the new school year this week was made a little easier for local families thanks to the Build-A-Backpack event ...

In 2014, a Deputy Sheriff earned a base salary of $64,916.80. In 2025, that same role earns $99,840, a 54 percent increase in just over a decade (this percentage includes all rank and file deputies ...

Established in 1964, Mid-Valley Publications (MVP) is an employee-owned group of five weekly community newspapers in Merced and Stanislaus counties. With the Merced County Times, Atwater-Winton Times, ...

Editor’s note: The following was sent to the Times by Unit 30 – Merced County Sheriff Sergeants & District Attorney Investigators. This is in response to Supervisor Darron McDaniel’s recent op-ed, ...