City officials outlined several painful choices — including cutting employees' salaries and having them pay more of the cost of their benefits — during a budget workshop...

A vacant house burned in Modesto's airport neighborhood Wednesday morning, one of about half a dozen fires in the past month.

Sam, a canine deputy for Riverbank Police Services, received a bullet-proof vest Wednesday morning to use while looking for high-risk suspects.

Young people can enjoy public swimming pools this summer courtesy of the Turlock Irrigation District, which hopes this will keep them out of canals and rivers.

Save Mart's labor contract has expired, bringing the Modesto grocery chain closer to a strike.

A family on O'Keefe Court in Modesto had an unfortunate Memorial Day leftover Wednesday when charcoal ashes disposed of in a waste container caught the toter on fire, which then spread...

A federal grand jury has indicted 32 people, including six Stanislaus County men, on charges they ran a marijuana growing operation that supplied large shipments to drug traffickers,...

Stanislaus County residents planning to vote by mail had better get their ballots in the post today, or their votes might not arrive in time to get counted in Tuesday's primary...

A Modesto woman being towed by a bicycle in a trailer meant for small children died after a sport utility vehicle ran over the carrier Wednesday afternoon.

Stanislaus County sheriff's detectives are investigating a "suspicious death" Wednesday in west Modesto.