LIVINGSTON The city chose to move forward Tuesday night with utility-rate increases aimed at relieving a nearly half-million-dollar deficit in the sanitation fund.
LIVINGSTON -- City leaders will decide tonight whether they want to implement a utility rate increase that'll help the budget and improve garbage service.
LIVINGSTON A stretch of road once ominously dubbed "blood alley" might not seem so imposing today, and that's just how local stakeholders want it.
The parcel of Highway 99 that runs through Livingston is a smooth ride, but years ago, it had a different look with many more hazards.LIVINGSTON A man was arrested Wednesday after leading officers on a high-speed chase, police reported Thursday. Huriel Cervantes, a 21-year-old Atwater resident, fled from police around 7:30 p.m. after an officer tried to stop him on Campbell Boulevard near Main Street, police said.
LIVINGSTON A natural or man-made disaster can strike in seconds, displacing hundreds of families in its path of destruction. But what about those family's four-legged companions? Even in the midst of superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of people risked their lives by refusing to leave without their pets.
LIVINGSTON The Police Department announced Tuesday it will be swearing in two new reserve police officers, Satveer Singh and Javier Ramirez. The two new reserve officers will be sworn-in at 7 p.m. March 19 inside the Livingston City Council chamber.
LIVINGSTON It's not Mayberry, but judging by one decreasing crime statistic, it may be hard to tell the difference.
LIVINGSTON A 26-year-old man who died after a Highway 99 pursuit with law enforcement officers was killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Merced County Sheriff's Department reported Thursday. The coroner's office has identified the dead man as Brandon Wesley Eckel.
Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin said one man is dead after pointing a rifle at Ceres police and California Highway Patrol officers early Wednesday morning in the area of Sultana Drive and Highway 99 near Livingston. Pazin said it's unknown whether the man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, or wounds suffered from the officers' gunshots. He said the man's name is being withheld pending notification of his family.
MERCED A massive power blackout affected Merced County early Sunday.
Roughly 59,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers went without power for a few hours because of an interruption in a main transmission line, according to PG&E officials.Merced County District 1 Supervisor John Pedrozo will hold his annual town hall meeting in Livingston tonight at 6 at the Livingston City Council chamber. Pedrozo says the town meetings give his constituents the opportunity to speak directly to him and to ask questions of county department heads.
LIVINGSTON Representatives of the Mexican Consulate in Fresno will wind up two days of meetings with the public at Livingston High School today in what is billed as a community event.
MERCED Remembering a negative past but optimistic about societal lessons learned, dozens of Japanese-Americans who experienced life in internment camps came together Saturday night for the annual Day of Remembrance Banquet.
LIVINGSTON -- In two months, it won't be an abnormality to see dragons, lizards and snakes flying through the sky over this city.
LIVINGSTON It could be as simple as a symbol in a notebook, a drawing on a hand or a seemingly harmless gesture from a child, but they all could be indicators of a lifestyle that leads to violence, incarceration and death.
