Holi, also called the Festival of Colors, is a spring festival celebrated by Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and others, and it was celebrated at UC Merced on Wednesday.
The Merced Sunrise Rotary will hold its annual all-you-can-eat-shrimp feed at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Merced County Fairgrounds Pavilion.
Playhouse Merced is planning its annual season preview party on Saturday, March 27, from 6 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $40 per person.
It's been soup weather lately. You know, the type of weather that leaves you reaching for a raincoat or sweater.
"Go forth and write, write!" teacher and project director Ocean Jones called after a departing student at the Valley Voices Writers Club meeting on a recent Wednesday afternoon.
Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.
For 40 years, farmer Todd Leake and his family have battled bitter cold, hungry pests and a short growing season to coax soybeans out of their fields in eastern North Dakota.
