Local growers, ranchers discuss impacts on industry BY ANGELINA MARTIN Farmers nationwide are feeling the effects of new tariffs announced by China on April 2, but California growers have been hit the hardest. Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture Karen Ross met with local farmers Thursday in Lodi to highlight just how […]

Critical snowpack at 52% of normal BY DENNIS WYATT Even with the recent Pineapple Express that blew in through the 209 region, the snowpack is barely over half full, which means Central Valley residents will have to rely on water from other sources. The Department of Water Resources’ most crucial snow measurement of the year […]

DoMo Partnership hopes to see more whimsy BY SABRA STAFFORD There are some basic services a city should provide for its residents and visitors, like functionality and safety. And while some needs, like fixing a pothole, definitely has a place in that functionality, so should the concept of fun. At least that’s the case in […]

Effort under way to connect Valley By Dennis Wyatt The growing importance of the Northern San Joaquin Valley as the housing option for workers needed to keep the Bay Area economy humming is underscored by efforts to launch a rail system to ultimately move commuters between Stockton directly to the BART station in Dublin. One […]

BY PAUL ROUPE Just off the eastern coast of Baja California, the island of San Marcos contains vast reserves of the mineral gypsum, which is blasted from natural deposits and shipped to—among many other locales–the Port of Stockton. The purity of the gypsum on San Marcos, as well as neighboring Santa Rosalia about 15 miles […]