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A small fire erupted at about 11:10 a.m. at the Foster Farms facility on Collier Road in Delhi on Sunday Oct. 1, 2017, according to Merced County-CalFire officials. Machinery caught on fire and was put out shortly after. No injuries were reported. mvelez@mercedsun-star.com … Click to Continue »

A small plane crashed in a parking lot in Plainville, Connecticut at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Monday, September 11, 2017. The Hartford Courant reported the single-engine Cessna was coming into land at Robertson Field Airport when it veered and crashed into a tree in a nearby parking lot. The 80-year-old …

The following editorial appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal on Sunday, Aug. 20: Government scientists worried that their long-in-the-works assessment of climate change would be suppressed. The concern hardly rates … Click to Continue »

It’s not usually easy to get the state of California to quickly adjust how it spends money in places like the Central Valley, especially after the Governor Jerry Brown himself comes to town for a major bill signing. But that’s exactly what a group of activists in Southwest Fresno were …

Late last month, the New England Fishery Management Council joined its Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic council colleagues in officially documenting concern over Trump administration-backed plans to use seismic airgun blasting … Click to Continue »

Sometimes it’s the little wonders that make Yosemite National Park special. Water in the Tuolumne and Merced watersheds begins in the high country, moves downstream through creeks, and finally joins powerful rivers travelling toward the Pacific Ocean. Take a moment and listen to the water flowing through the fen at …

A new scientific study reveals what happens at the surface of the earth can influence earthquakes originating deep underground. Rain and snow do a lot in California—they deliver drinking water and mark the changing of seasons, but according to a new study published in the research journal Science , they …

The Sierra Nevada and Coast ranges are pushed down by fractions of an inch each winter by the weight of rain and snow and then rise after melt and runoff, … Click to Continue »

Turlock police Officer Paul Heppner was on patrol March 29 when a dispatch call went out for a vehicle crash at West Hawkeye Avenue and North Golden State Boulevard with … Click to Continue »

Video submitted to the Merced Sun-Star following a single vehicle rollover crash on Highway 99 in Merced, Calif., on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. According to the California Highway Patrol, the driver of a Saturn L200 sedan swerved to avoid colliding with another vehicle while traveling in the southbound lanes of …

Speakers at a Merced town hall-style meeting this week asked city leaders to declare the town a “sanctuary city.” At least two residents asked the city leaders to consider the … Click to Continue »

The city of Merced Fire Department responded to a small electrical fire at the Merced Sun-Star building early Monday morning. The fire was reported by a third-party distributor about 1 … Click to Continue »

As United Nations climate change talks get set to wrap up on Friday in Marrakech, Morocco, negotiators representing the Alliance of Small Island Nations underscored the need to speed up … Click to Continue »