Merced

Musica Grupera bands created a space to celebrate in a region shaped by farm labor. But with the closure of Castle Air Force Base, the good times didn’t last.

The cultural district designation comes just off the heels of major business growth and beautification efforts in the last few years that local leaders say have made the downtown more appealing to residents and visitors.

California’s High Speed Rail Authority is proposing a new site for a Merced station in its quest to build a bullet train connecting Southern California with the Bay Area.

While Gabriel Moraga gave the river its current name, Native Americans had their own names for the waterway, dating back thousands of years.

The University of California looked at three sites as finalists for the campus, including two in the Fresno area, before awarding the campus to Merced.

The barista internship offered at Merced independent coffee shop The Sensory Lab teaches all things associated with specialty coffee.

The new kitchen in downtown Merced offers a way to market imperfect produce through meals, salads, desserts, food boxes, and aguas frescas.

A community tipster led the officers to the missing sign, which they found in a vacant residence in south Merced.

Merced’s Abraham and Isaac Santana are following in the footsteps of their entrepreneurial parents by opening their own business. It will be located on Main Street, in the heart of downtown.

While Merced’s farming fields and packing plants appear to be operating as usual, advocates and workers say the more fragile, migrant cash-based economy of the region’s swap meets, colloquially known as “remates,” is showing signs of strain.