Merced Sun-Star

17 hours ago | mercedsunstar.com | Brian Rokos

The state Department of Justice has cleared a Fontana police officer of criminal wrongdoing in a 2022 fatal shooting of a Hemet man in which the officer may have mistaken a cell phone for a gun. The DOJ investigates fatal shootings by police of unarmed civilians. In announcing their findings in a 54-page report on Tuesday, April 22, investigators made recommendations that they believe would improve the Fontana Police Department's tactics and policies.

6 days ago | mercedsunstar.com | Krissy Waite

The Corte Madera Town Council has passed on an opportunity for employee housing. The council directed staff Tuesday not to move forward with purchasing a condo at 77 Parkview Circle for the potential housing program. Council members said the funds should go toward expenditures that would benefit more than one person and absorb less staff time. The move went against a staff recommendation.

6 days ago | mercedsunstar.com | Steven Rosenfeld

Belvedere has selected an engineering firm for a project to reinforce three seismically vulnerable sections of Beach Road and its adjacent seawall. The City Council approved a $290,500 contract with Stetson Engineering at its meeting on Monday. The project is one phase of a possible multiyear, multimillion-dollar effort to fortify the city's levees and utility lines from earthquakes, flooding and rising sea level, said City Manager Robert Zadnik.

1 week ago | mercedsunstar.com | Clara Harter

1 week ago | mercedsunstar.com | Marek Warszawski

Fresno City Attorney Andrew Janz speaks about the recent subpoena of two journalists in an interview Monday, April 14, 2025 in Fresno. [email protected] Safe to say that Fresno's first attempt at prosecuting an unhoused individual under the city's no-camping ordinance won't be written up in any legal periodicals. Except as an example of what not to do.