Manteca beefs up Click It or Ticket

Make sure everyone in the family gets home safely this holiday season by buckling your seat belt every trip, day and night. That's the message that the Manteca Police Department and Lathrop Police Services are telling drivers as part of the 2009 holiday Click or Ticket mobilization now in effect through Nov. 30.

City coordinates discounts for Manteca vehicle buyers

Workers at some of Manteca's largest firms are getting a little extra in their upcoming paychecks - $500 off on a new vehicle.

HELPING HANDS MINISTRY

Ag experts hope to stop moth’s spread in Manteca

California is the promised land for the light brown apple moth.

Yellow jackets & wasps, oh my

LATHROP – The City of Lathrop has launched a campaign to educate residents on what to do with the recent invasion of wasps and yellow jackets in the Mossdale area.

Manteca High grads star on cable outdoor sports show

RIPON – Carl Dunbar is no stranger to living the life of the outdoor sportsman.

SCOUTING FOOD DRIVE

Manteca area Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts conducted their annual Scouting for Food Drive on Saturday.

Lathrop skate park competition a success

LATHROP – It wasn't that long ago that the thought of holding a skate competition at the Lathrop Skate Park seemed crazy.

1929: Parallel parking in downtown

Attic fire leaves couple homeless

RIPON - An attic fire left a Ripon couple homeless shortly before 2 p.m. Friday in an exclusive neighborhood near the Spring Creek Country Club.

Does SSJID plan make sense? It’ll cost $200K for study to find out

Who knows what they're talking about – PG&E or South San Joaquin Irrigation District?

Snow report: Lathrop tubing season opens

LATHROP - It was tough to determine what was brighter - the twinkle in 4-year-old Carlos Jimenez' eyes or the snow piled 18 inches deep on Mt. Dell'Osso.

Mt. Dell’Osso: It’s tubular fun, dude

Toss aside the Wii. Forget Space Mountain. This is the real deal, well except for the snow. It's manmade.

Government jobs up 500 in SJ County while 400 more Mantecans out of work

Four hundred Manteca residents joined the ranks of the unemployed in October as the jobless rate inched back toward a post Depression high of 14.4 percent set in March.

Extra day’s work so they can help others

Randy Sprinkle knew that he had a lot to be thankful for.

Roast, fund-raiser for Jeff Tilton on March 7

The Manteca Transit Center at Moffat Boulevard and South Main Street in Manteca is the setting for the Roast of Jeff Tilton, a candidate for San Joaquin County Superintendent of Schools in June's primary elections.

Friends remember Olympic torch relay in 1964

It's Winter Olympics time. And while the world's eyes may be focused on Sochi, Bob Steves and Tom Osborn's memories are flying back to the 1964 summer Tokyo Olympics.