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A Merced Superior Court judge denied a request earlier this month to halt the Planada flood recovery program due to resident complaints about subpar repairs – just months after Merced County ended its contract with Habitat for Humanity for repair work.

San Joaquin Valley cities and counties are scrambling to revise state-mandated housing plans after California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced earlier this week his plans to sue over a dozen Valley jurisdictions that are out of compliance with state housing law.

Yamato Colony near Livingston was founded by and for Japanese American farmers.

A new health clinic opened its doors in Merced County. Sutter Los Banos Rural Health Clinic East is part of efforts by the health company Sutter Health to expand its services to rural regions of the state.

A restoration project in Merced County is removing an old levee to reconnect the San Joaquin River with its historic floodplain.

The story of how the matron saint of Mexico came to be started almost 500 years ago. Legend says a man named Juan Diego in the year 1531 walked down a hill outside Mexico City with a message no one believed.

Voters in Stanislaus and Merced counties showed less enthusiasm for Proposition 50 than elsewhere in California – to no one’s surprise.

A case of "lost in translation" gives this Merced County town its unusual name.

When it was created in 1850, Mariposa covered 30,000 square miles, or about 1/5th of the entire state.

The town along Highway 152 is named for natural pools along Los Banos Creek near Pacheco Pass.