Authorities are investigating a homicide after an inmate was found unresponsive at the Merced County Jail. At about 3:45 p.m.

A pedestrian and a motorcyclist were both killed in separate crashes on Merced County’s west side over the weekend, according to authorities. At about 4:50 p.m. Sunday, Los Banos area California ...

A Merced County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for receiving and distributing child pornography, the United ...

A federal grand jury indicted 35-year-old Joel Damian Ortega of Merced on charges of receiving and distributing child ...

Central California appeared to turn red as voters delivered more than half a million votes for President-Elect Donald Trump, ...

Presidential election results so far show Trump gaining more support from certain California counties than he did in 2020- the trend is most pronounced in the Central ...

Election Night in Merced was marked by long, last-minute lines at voting centers, oh-so-close vote margins in some races, and ...

The race for the 13th Congressional District, expected to be one of the closest races in the nation, hasn’t turned out to be ...

Santiago Torres Mendez Jr. faces a potential life sentence in prison in connection with sexual assaults on seven people, ...

Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke reacts with Measure R, known as the Merced County Public Safety Stabilization Act, on the ...

A 16-year-old teen is recovering in the hospital with minor injuries after her car split in half following a head-on crash in ...