Merced

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.

About once a month, the inside of the Merced Senior Center transforms into a dark, thumping night club – complete with a DJ, flashing lights and a snack bar that serves mocktails and nonalcoholic beer. The pop-up event, known as Club 67, isn’t a typical nightclub.

Two South Asian women now lead Merced County’s largest public school districts in making policy decisions and keeping schools accountable.

The obelisk along Highway 140 at Arboleda Road is one of the most unusual roadside landmarks in the Central Valley.

A traveling standup comedy show with two unique rules makes a pitstop in Merced, California.

The Central Pacific and Southern Pacific connected the San Joaquin Valley with the world in the 1870s, founding many local cities and bypassing others.

A fire damaged part of the vacant 3033 G Street building last year. More than 50 years old, the building once housed hundreds of employees.