Hughson News

The crossing of plums and apricots has resulted in dozens of varieties of pluots, like these early queens.

OUSD PRINCIPAL ASSIGNMENTS School site administrative assignments for the 2009-10 school year have been announced, and are effective starting July 1. Some are new, and some are continuing.

The City Council evaluated City Manager Joe Donabed in a special meeting Tuesday night, after some council members claimed they were misled on the details of a street maintenance project.

Responders care for one of the three victims in Thursday morning's accident. A big rig driver attempted a U-turn into the northbound lane, and a car could not avoid it.

Responders care for one of the three victims in this morning's accident. A big-rig driver attempted a U-turn into the northbound lane, and a car could not avoid it.

A recycling plant fire that sent a black shroud of smoke over Ceres and the southern part of Modesto late Monday afternoon started when sparks from scrap metal got lodged into a huge pile of cardboard.

The Tuolumne River Trust's Paddle to the Sea project concludes today on the San Francisco waterfront.

1922: Ice-making plant is built. 1928: Fuel oil sales begin. 1930: New feed mill is built.

OAKLEY, Calif. - " It's another sunny day on the California Delta, but prospects could be brighter for competitors in the Stren Series Western Division event.

Watching local governments over the years - decades, actually - confirms my belief that leadership dysfunction is like a flu bug.

OAKLEY, Calif. - " Three words summarize the outlook for the final round of Stren Western Division action - " it's the delta.

After a car chase along U.S. 101, San Mateo County sheriff's deputies arrested three men Sunday, May 17, in Palo Alto in connection with a series of early morning commercial burglaries in Menlo Park and Redwood City.

Modesto's message to Sacramento: We're not your piggy bank. Trouble is, Sacramento doesn't have to listen.

Cities and agencies poised to sign contracts for water project stimulus money : 1. Eastern Municipal Water District, Riverside $38.4 million 2. Inland Empire Utilities Agency, Riverside $36.5 million 3. City of Millbrae, San Mateo $34 million 4. City of Delano, Kern $33 million for sewage treatment plant completion 5. City of Brawley, Imperial ...

Five farmworkers from Merced were injured early Friday when their van overturned after an accident involving two cars on Geer Road near Hughson, the California Highway Patrol reported.

Taco trucks are coming under fire in a lot of cities, as officials try to figure out how to handle the nomadic restaurants.

Sergio Merida and his relatives built taco trucks into a family business. To sell their fresh-cooked tacos, carnitas and tortas, each day they spread out across Palos Verdes Estates -- Merida to the east, his wife, Maggie Avila, to the center, and Sonia Avila, Maggie's mother, to the west.

Pro David Rush of Palermo, Calif., caught a five-bass limit weighing 9 pounds, 10 ounces Saturday to win the Stren Series Western tournament on Lake Oroville with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 29-8. For his victory, Rush earned $16,716 cash and a 198VX Ranger boat and trailer with an Evinrude or Yamaha outboard.

Jason Bubier of Oroville took over the top spot among the bass fishing pros after the second day Friday in the three-day Stren Series Western Division tournament on Lake Oroville.

OROVILLE, Calif. - " A familiar refrain heard at FLW bass tournament weigh-ins: "Tomorrow's another day, anything can happen." Never have those words been truer than at this Stren Series Western Division tournament on Lake Oroville.