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Traveling to Yosemite as a group is now easier for people who live in Fresno, or visit the city.

It will open to students when school starts Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023.

The California State Transportation Agency announced Merced County was awarded the $49.6 million grant on Thursday

The rail district, a public-private partnership with Merced County, will serve agricultural producers in the region.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Merced County Board of Supervisors approved an agreement with Patriot Rail today to establish a rail district at Castle Commerce Center,...

/PRNewswire/ -- The Merced County Board of Supervisors approved an agreement with Patriot Rail today to establish a rail district at Castle Commerce Center,...

But county officials asked the state to reconsider, saying that metric was warped by “a sudden data dump of positive cases caused by delayed reporting from a laboratory,” which “artificially spiked the county’s numbers,” according to a statement. The original state-calculated adjusted case rate of 10.1 per day per 100,000 people was already just a hair above the red tier threshold of 10.0. Officials said Wednesday that the county’s data now show 8.2 daily cases per 100,000 resident...

Final county moves out of Californias purple tier as wider reopenings continue Luke Money © (Los Angeles Times) For the first time since California unveiled its color-coded reopening system, no counties are in the most restrictive purple tier. (Los Angeles Times) And then there were none. For the first time since California unveiled its color-coded COVID-19 reopening system nearly eight months ago, not a single county is in the most-restrictive purple tier. The milestone was...

Large-scale clinic to vaccinate over 2,500 Merced County seniors KFSN Share: MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Merced Community Colleges gymnasium is being transformed into the countys next large-scale vaccine clinic. Starting Tuesday afternoon, the space will serve as the site where as many as 2,700 North Valley seniors receive the highly coveted COVID-19 vaccine. The clinic will take place on three days next week and two days on the following week. "We have got folks here every day working to get thi...

California County Welcomes Autonomous Vehicle Testing In a unanimous vote this week, Merced County supervisors finalized a long-awaited contract with the Transportation Research Center Inc., opening the door to the immediate testing of autonomous vehicles. by Abbie Lauten-Scrivner, Merced Sun-Star / February 3, 2021 Shutterstock/Just Super (TNS) — In a unanimous and enthusiastic vote on Tuesday, the Merced County Board of Supervisors put the offi...