Beginning in the early 1960s, the Yosemite Junior College District (now the Yosemite Community College District) planned to build a natural history museum that was to be on Modesto...

Marion Nelson of Modesto celebrates his 102nd birthday today. Friday, he warmed up for the big event by playing at Escalon Golf Course with friend George Ferguson, 89, and others....

A fire believed to have been intentionally set burned a two-story vacant house Saturday evening in Modesto's airport neighborhood. No injuries were reported.

Authorities did not find any explosive powder inside a suspicious device thought to be a pipe bomb, which was found in a minivan driven by a man suspected of robbing at gunpoint a...