Hughson News

Deputy Dennis Wallace, who is suing Stanislaus County for alleged discrimination, testified in a trial Thursday about a January 2011 meeting in which sheriff's officials said he was no longer physically fit enough to do his job.

A Sunday morning fire burned 150 to 200 wooden bins filled with walnuts at Mid Valley Nut, a Hughson walnut processing company.

A senior management consultant for the Stanislaus County Chief Executive Office will take over leadership of Stanislaus County’s smallest city.

The Stanislaus Wildlife Care Center in Hughson is holding its annual Baby Animal Shower on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is a way for the center to collect items it needs to care for injured and orphaned animals.

Modesto's population increased by more than 3,000 people last year, boosting its total number of residents to nearly 206,000, newly released estimates from the California Department of Finance's Demographic Research Unit show.

Representatives from a variety of local law enforcement agencies gathered at Lakewood Memorial Park Wednesday morning for the annual Peace Officers Memorial ceremony.

Info: The seventh annual "Young at Heart" Age with Movement Celebration includes live entertainment from The Quake Mobile DJ, light refreshments, raffle drawings, fitness and balance testing, a variety of health information booths and exercise demonstrations.

Some parents of Hughson High School students were unhappy with an apparent change in cafeteria policy that would have prevented teens from putting lunch on a charge account starting May 1. But the news caught district administrators by surprise.