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WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives Sunday passed by a 219 to 212 vote the biggest overhaul of the nation's health care system in more than four decades, sweeping changes expected to make coverage easier and cheaper to obtain.
The largely party-line vote -- 219 Democrats voted "yea" while all 178 Republicans and 34 Democrats voted no -- meant President Barack Obama's biggest domestic initiative neared the end of its yearlong political and legislative odyssey.
Enid Picart is a young woman about town. At only 22, she's a two-term Americorps worker with a degree from UC Merced, works as a Spanish-language health interpreter and is studying for medical school.
Property owners with dense weeds reminiscent of the lush Amazon jungle beware -- leaving that overgrown greenery uncut is a dangerous fire hazard that may also hit you in the wallet.
Millions of Californians who don't have health insurance or can't afford their current coverage will feel the impact of the historic health care overhaul almost immediately.
As the up/down, "deem" or damned health care bill lurches to some sort of ending, meet a man who talks a lot of sense about our health care crisis.
MERCED -- Merced College said it received two grants totaling $410,000 to support the programs offered through the college's Center for International Trade Development and the Workplace Learning Resource Center.
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An 18-year-old man was arrested Saturday after police pulled over his car and allegedly found a handgun and cocaine.
This week, "Off the 99" interviewed Hicham Eltal, deputy general manager of the Merced Irrigation District; Mindy Spatt, communications director for The Utility Reform Network; and Robin Swanson, spokeswoman for the Yes on 16 campaign, about Proposition 16.
ATWATER -- For several years, Atwater's Police Department has overspent its overtime budget, prompting one city councilman to ask, "Does the city need more officers?"
Surprisingly, the answer from Chief Richard Hawthorne is no.LIVINGSTON -- The city's newest planning commissioners are young, male and educated.
A groundbreaking ceremony for Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System's park-and-ride station in Mariposa is scheduled at 11:30 a.m. April 5.
