San Joaquin News

Hard-core cyclists and beginning bikers alike can pedal to work in downtown Wednesday, along one of five guided routes.

NEEDED: Volunteers 15 and older to assist and encourage children and serve as "buddies" with the various activities throughout the farm.

A concert had been planned to help Kaylin Lombardi offset her medical expenses. Now, the money raised will establish a trust fund for Nicholas, her 7-year-old son.

Becky Whitesides, Linden Elementary, Linden Unified: The 22-year teaching veteran, who also is a literacy coach, coordinates the California English Language Development Test for the district.

The Oakdale Irrigation District board agreed Tuesday to sell more water to Westlands Water District, as long as its own customers are not left short.

California's political watchdog agency has determined that a former state senator who engaged in real estate transactions with a friend and campaign donor did not violate the state's political ethics laws.

The detention of an unauthorized person at the Sharpe Army Depot led to the decontamination of police officers for a suspicious substance Tuesday afternoon.

Stockton's Community Service Department will hold an intermediate golf program for those 13 and older from 5 to 6 p.m. every Wednesday starting this week to May 29, at Swenson Park Golf Course, 6803 Alexandria Place.

Restore the Delta , a coalition opposed to the Brown Administration's rush to construct massive Peripheral Tunnels to take millions of acre-feet of water from the Delta, today said the Brown Administration appears to have canceled a comprehensive benefit-cost analysis of its BDCP proposal for Peripheral Tunnels to export Sacramento -San Joaquin/San ... (more)

The Mokelumne River snakes its way into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Gov. Jerry Brown's administration wants to restore wetlands in the Delta, but that part of its plan has been eclipsed by concerns over a pair of 40-foot-wide water tunnels that would ship Sacramento River water to the south.

Saturday, April 27: National Drug Take Back Day. Collection planned at Tracy City Hall parking lot, 324 E. 11th St.

That's because Saturday is the statewide trout opener, the first day of legal fishing in most Sierra creeks and streams.

For the fourth year, Lost Isle, a resort crucial to the Delta economy, will not reopen for the summer season.