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05/18/2024

Countless blue seats designated for San Joaquin Delta College faculty at Thursday evening’s graduation ceremony in Stockton were empty in boycott of contract negotiations.

05/14/2024

Manteca voters may be asked to raise the city’s sales tax rate to 9.25 percent to improve police and fire services and street repairs, City Manager Toni Lundgren said.

05/13/2024

The city of Stockton is accepting nominations for the Champion of H.O.P.E. Award (Honoring Outstanding Prevention Efforts) that is being presented through the city’s Office of Violence Prevention.

05/11/2024

BRENDA HUGGINS HAS lived a few blocks from McKinley Park in South Stockton for all of her life. And she’s thrilled her childhood playground is about to get a much-needed facelift.

05/07/2024

A Stockton Unified School District trustee was arraigned this week after being arrested more than two weeks ago on suspicion of theft of public funds from a school district credit card and insurance fraud.  

05/02/2024

A Cinco De Mayo free festival and parade is set to take place May 4 and May 5 in downtown Stockton.

04/29/2024

EE FONG “DAVID” SAELEE, a Southeast Asian refugee who found success in Stockton despite crushing setbacks that would have defeated a lesser man, died April 9 in a farming accident. He was 63. 

04/28/2024

A meeting scheduled next month in Stockton will provide updates on freeway bridge improvements being implemented as part of the I-5 Stockton Channel Viaduct Project.

04/28/2024

The California Garlic Festival is leaving Stockton and headed to the Merced County fairgrounds this summer.

04/28/2024

Family friends of a gas station employee fatally shot earlier this month in Stockton have established a GoFundMe account and are asking the public for donations.

04/26/2024

Stockton Unified School District teachers demonstrated outside the school district headquarters this week and voiced their frustrations with labor negotiations during the district’s board meeting.

04/25/2024

A Stockton school board trustee who was arrested last week on suspicion of theft of public funds and insurance fraud was barred from remotely attending Tuesday’s school board meeting, according to her lawyer.

04/24/2024

A federal lawsuit filed by a corporate landfill operator just outside of Stockton alleges that inmates at a nearby prison hospital known as the California Health Care Facility are drinking well water that may be contaminated by toxic chemicals unfit …

04/21/2024

Keys to the City were given out on Thursday in Stockton as part of the annual State of the City address by the mayor.

04/18/2024

Nearly 900 people made their way to the Port of Stockton to hear Mayor Kevin Lincoln give his State of the City address on Thursday.  

04/18/2024

The University of the Pacific in Stockton has announced that their School of Health Sciences was awarded nearly a million dollars in state grants to continue helping students fill the need for health care workers. 

04/18/2024

Traffic has reopened in Stockton after a fire truck struck a house as part of a multi-vehicle collision that left several injured. 

04/17/2024

The director of child welfare and attendance for Stockton Unified School District was escorted off the district premises last week and placed on administrative leave after coming forward about enrollment drops and alleging he was pressured to approve unethical expulsions.

04/14/2024

The city of Stockton has approved a $6 million wrongful death settlement with the family of a man who died while in police custody in 2020, the family’s attorneys said.

04/13/2024

The California Department of Justice has ended its monitoring of the Stockton Unified School District and its Department of Public Safety after five years, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced.

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