Californians didn’t know what they were doing. So say the advocates that want state prison inmates paid the minimum wage of $16 an hour for tasks such as cleaning cells, doing laundry, and cooking ...

Ripon’s bid for a fourth consecutive Sac-Joaquin Section championship ended on Saturday with a heartbreaking 14-13 ...

For the second time in two years, the Manteca Jr. Buffaloes varsity won the Central Valley Youth Football and Cheer Super ...

Twelve Bridges scored on its first three plays from scrimmage, and the rout was on in a 63-7 win over ninth-seeded Sierra in ...

The Lathrop Police Department is partnering with the California Office of Traffic Safety. By that, local police were awarded ...

Measure Q is headed for the proverbial photo finish. The latest count released Friday by the San Joaquin Registrar of Voters Office had the City of Manteca’s proposed temporary three-quarter cent ...

Carlon Perry — a former Manteca mayor that at one time was a co-publisher of the weekly Lathop-Manteca Sun Post newspaper — ...

Work is needed on one of the roads in Ripon. It’s in the area of South Highland Avenue and Canal Boulevard, where the road striping is faded and in need of being replaced. e.

Measure J has been defeated. The Ripon Unified School District $32 million bond measure will fall shy of the 55 percent ...

It’s been some 160 plus years since the first train made its way across the Altamont Hills from the Northern San Joaquin ...

SACRAMENTO — This season had been quite the grind for Ripon Christian High. So said Knights coach Phil Grams following his team's lopsided 55-7 loss to Sac-Joaquin Section Division VI powerhouse ...

Lathrop is heading to the semifinal round for the first time after taking out one of the most decorated small-school programs in the Sac-Joaquin Section.