Stockton News

Most people probably think that if you pit a cellphone camera against a digital single lens reflex camera that it would be no contest; the DSLR would win hands down.

A list of Stockton's who's who funding the campaign for the city's sales tax increase contributed nearly eight times as much money as those who opposed the Nov. 5 ballot measure.

An elderly woman and her two dogs died in a two-alarm house fire Sunday morning in north Stockton, Fire Department spokesman Jeff Whitlock said.

Police arrested a 31-year-old man on weapons and parole-violation charges after responding to a call that shots had been fired at Sonora and San Joaquin streets in south Stockton about 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

A student-made banner filled with handprints and a social media hashtag covers the front window on Delta Sierra Middle School's administration building, and similar signs hang on walls all over the north Stockton campus.

Snowflakes failed to fall onto the streets of Stockton as forecasts earlier in the week predicted, but local rains combined with a cold snap made for some nice powder up in the foothills and up the road in Lake Tahoe.

The overnight temperature dipped to 28 degrees in Stockton, plenty chilly but not record cold, according to the National Weather Service.

If you are going through a hair-pulling home remodel now, you probably noted Stockton's proposed green building ordinance.

Alexis Lowe sat with slightly slumping shoulders while her 4-year-old son Andrew stared at his shoes and refused to look at the camera early Saturday afternoon.

Somewhere in her rural home on Roberts Island, Delta activist Rogene Reynolds keeps a storage bin filled with mementoes from decades past.

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed a local official Friday to a regional partnership meant to bring attention - and funding - to common issues facing the eight-county San Joaquin Valley.

When Matthew Hernandez first spotted the wallet in the parking lot en route to pick up a video movie, he thought he had dropped it.

Their eggs have provided a reliable source of animal protein for her five children since she decided to cut most meat purchases from the family grocery budget last month.

WWE House Show Results 12.06.13: Stockton, California Posted by Jeffrey Harris on 12.07.2013 John Cena competes in a handicap match main event... Credit: Ken Mayer and PWInsider * The Usos beat The Real Americans.

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Gloria Becerra placed the finishing touches on her holiday nativity scene. Several more statues and some lights for a radiant effect.

A legal showdown over pension obligations in municipal bankruptcies was averted in both Vallejo and Stockton, largely because officials in both cities chose not to make that fight.

No calendar of events this week, but I'll leave you with this gem of an insight from Dan Odenweller, who as a Department of Fish and Game employee traveled around California in the late 1970s explaining to various interest groups why the Peripheral Canal was a good idea.

As an elementary school student in Stockton, Calif., Sarim Chabb was shot in the leg when a gunman used an assault rifle to spray bullets at a schoolyard full of students at recess.

I don't know the origins of this toxic tolerance. But I know the mindset. Council members are pathetic dilettantes; city government is incompetent and possibly corrupt; et cetera.