With a total of more than 200 deaths and 8,000 cases tallied so far, the burden of COVID-19 continues to grow in the San Joaquin Valley and foothills. This week, the rise in numbers has put three Valley counties on the state’s watch list. The state’s goal for each county …
Read More »Hanford’s Carnegie Museum May Be On The Line After City Issues List Of Repairs
Steel tycoon and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie built libraries all over the U.S. with at least 14 of them in the Central Valley. Today, only a handful of those original buildings remain. One of them is in Hanford. There’s now a museum inside, but its future may be at risk. Last …
Read More »Interior Department gives Trump list of ‘a handful’ of national monuments to shrink
The White House is getting ready to move on a contentious plan to shrink public lands in the West, which could involve the redrawing of borders at several national monuments … Click to Continue »
Read More »Conservationists, tribes denounce plan to remove Yellowstone grizzly bears from endangered list
The grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park has been protected by the federal government for more than four decades. That will begin to change next week. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced Payless ShoeSource on the list of locations to close
Another Valley Payless ShoeSource is closing and more are on the chopping block, including a Merced location. The discount shoe retailer filed for bankruptcy in April and announced that three … Click to Continue »
Read More »Manatee to be taken off endangered-species list, agency says
The manatee – for decades the poster mammal for environmental decline in Florida – is officially no longer an endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Thursday … Click to Continue »
Read More »Graduate programs at UC Merced are getting noticed, climb list, school officials say
UC Merced’s graduate programs climbed the U.S. News & World Report’s newest rankings of Best Graduate Schools, an indication the university is gaining prestige, according to school leaders. The report … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced ranks 7th on list of cities with more renters than owners
The Merced area ranks toward the top of a list of cities with more renters than owners, according to a recent report from a rental website. The trend is a … Click to Continue »
Read More »UC Merced stabbing on White House list of ‘under reported’ terrorist attacks
The 2015 UC Merced knife attack was included in a list distributed on Tuesday by the White House of so-called “terrorist attacks” President Donald Trump and his administration believe went … Click to Continue »
Read More »Most humpback whale populations removed from US endangered species list
In a triumph for the global movement to save whales from oblivion, the U.S. government on Tuesday removed most of the world’s humpback populations from the federal list of endangered species, with some glaring exceptions on the West Coast. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced Mysteries & Minutiae: Readers want child fun, basic goods and services in wish list
Last week, I wrote about the newsroom’s wish list for Merced as the city is set for future development. This week, it was readers’ turn to make a couple of … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced Mysteries & Minutiae: With growth coming, now’s the time for a Merced wish list
UC Merced 2020 Project and Merced Gateways will expand city Both developments vital to Merced growth What would you like to see come to Merced? … Click to Continue »
Read More »North Valley rivers make ‘endangered’ list
No. 2 ranking on 2016 list for San Joaquin River and three tributaries National group says diversions have harmed San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Merced rivers River users defend diversions and worry about proposed flow increases … Click to Continue »
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