Atwater News

Fifteen narcotics units used the former Castle Air Force Base on Friday for the certification of about half of their teams of officers and K-9s. Merced County sheriff's deputy Mark Taylor said seven teams — each made up of a handler and a dog — showed their skills at finding and bringing down assailants, while one tested its ability at ... (more)

The Merced Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals meets the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 500 Buena Vista Drive, except when the first Monday is a holiday.

Big Creek Lumber's sixth annual car show will be held Saturday at the company's Castle Business Park location.

Castle Air Museum will open the doors of its historic aircraft on Sunday for an intimate viewing event that happens only twice a year.

As a coach for the Golden Valley junior varsity and the Atwater Competitive Soccer club, Jason Durbin has witnessed first hand how much talent continues to be turned out in Merced County.

Avoid the 11, an effort involving 11 Merced County law enforcement agencies, plans license checkpoints and DUI “saturation” patrols through Monday, according to a news release.

ATWATER — The Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church will hold its annual giant rummage sale from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday in the parking lot at the corner of Shaffer Road and Juniper Avenue.

A travel survey by AAA estimates that just over 4 million Californians plan on traveling 50 miles or more this Memorial Day weekend.

Six young women will compete June 1 for District 6 Dairy Princess at Our Lady of Assumption Hall in Turlock.

ATWATER — Atwater High School will hold an open house from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the school.

Defense attorneys say one of the two inmates accused of killing a California prison guard in 2009 was so drunk on potent homemade liquor that he couldn't understand an FBI agent's Miranda warnings afterward.

This is in reply to the letter from the writer disappointed that the SPCA would not help pay her daughter's vet bill .

Here's the first look into Atwater Village's new watering hole, Village Tavern , produced by Maurice Rodriguez , an Atwater resident for almost thirty years.

One of the two inmates accused of killing an Atwater, Calif., prison guard was so drunk on a potent brew dubbed "White Lightning" that he couldn't understand an FBI agent's Miranda warnings afterward, defense attorneys claim in revealing new documents filed in federal court.

The sound of a bagpiper playing "Amazing Grace" set a somber tone Wednesday morning, as members of law enforcement gathered to honor fallen officers at the 2013 Merced County Peace Officer Memorial ceremony.

USA TODAY lists them: Atwater, Azusa, Compton, and more, inclding some big cites.

Kerry Lee Bobo, a 53-year-old resident of Atwater, Calif., believed he could beat security by concealing his Sig Sauer .45-caliber handgun in aluminum foil, according to court documents.

The city is gearing up for Cap and Town 2013, Merced's biggest outdoor celebration and ultimate block party, from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday on Main Street, from M street to Martin Luther King Jr.

A man who was once at the helm of Merced County and Atwater was recently recognized for more than four decades of work in local government.

As part of National Teacher Appreciation Day, instructors at Buhach Colony High School in Atwater were treated to a spa day, which included massages, pedicures, manicures and other pampering.