Oakdale News

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

Hart was the Valley Home Joint School District superintendent and principal when he was arrested in 2011 on two charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child younger than 14.

This morning, county supervisors could approve a trial program to run May 25 to Sept.

Oakdale Police are looking for a local businessman after an alarm call led them to discover an indoor marijuana growing operation.

Cal Campbell, Jeremy Fennell and Diana Gonzalez are running in a June 4 special election for the seat vacated when Richard O'Brien was elected mayor in November.

This is a story about deep love and a higher power, about gifts given from the heart even as it breaks.

The late John Bowman, a three-time world champion and a charter member of the Cowboys' Turtle Association who signed the original petition and carried card No.

A judge on Tuesday sentenced a 31-year-old Oakdale mother to nine years in prison for using methamphetamine while she was breast-feeding, which resulted in the death of her infant daughter.

The Oakdale Irrigation District board voted 5-0 Tuesday morning to sell a substantial amount of water to the Westlands Water District -- if the water is available this summer.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will offer animals to new owners in Oakdale. Adopters also must meet BLM standards for shelter, feed, transportation and other parts of horse and burro care.

A couple of years ago, Linda Ellenwood retired as activities director at the Dale Commons assisted living community.

Info: Woodland West Community Neighborhood will be holding a Potluck In The Park featuring grilled hot dogs for the kids.

For a gal who never really liked reality television — who's blasted a lot of it on several occasions, actually — I sure watch a lot of it these days.

The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department has denied an application from former Riverbank City Councilman Jesse James White, who was seeking to serve his one-year jail sentence at home with a GPS monitoring device.

For a gal who never really liked reality television — who's blasted a lot of it on several occasions, actually — I sure watch a lot of it these days.

Two candidates for the Riverbank City Council said Wednesday that they would get city finances on track in the short term and carefully plan for population growth in the long term.

Witnesses told police a black man in his 20s and wearing a white T-shirt fired a handgun at people in a black Ford Mustang convertible before running away.

According to Oakdale police, the accident occurred in the 1000 block of East F Street at 10:18 p.m. The pedestrian, whose name was not released, was taken by helicopter to Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, where he was listed in critical condition.

The California Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal accident at Claribel and Bentley Roads east of Modesto.

The Oakdale Joint Unified School District Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Oakdale council chambers, 277 N. Second Ave.