Merced County

Firefighters on Friday continued to make progress in containing several brush fires that broke out across the Bay Area the day before. Bob Redell reports.

Cal Fire firefighters are battling what has become a 350-acre wildfire in just five hours in Merced County and local authorities said late Thursday evening.

Authorities in central California are searching for six inmates who used a “homemade rope” to escape from a county jail.

A suspect sought for a fatal shooting in Milpitas last Saturday was found dead inside a hotel room in Merced County on Wednesday, according to police.

A poultry-processing plant where at least 358 workers have tested positive for the coronavirus and eight have died was ordered by county health officials in California to temporarily shut down, officials said Thursday.

Authorities have deactivated an Amber Alert for a child last seen with his father in Merced County and have launched a death investigation, according to the Merced County Sheriff’s Office.

California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert Saturday for a child who was last seen with his father in Merced County.

Staring down gunfire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, one father said he rushed the gunman, making it so far as to hear the gunman tell him, “No.”

Officials say recent drenching storms have filled nearly all of California’s reservoirs to average or above average levels. The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that since Jan. 1, some 580 billion gallons of water were added across the state.

The Bay Area’s strongest storm of the season has passed, but lingering showers and runoff could still create flooding problems. Jeff Ranieri reports.

A California bus driver faces felony vehicular manslaughter charges in connection with a highway wreck last year that killed four people and nearly sliced a bus in half, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Two police officers remained hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a struggle with a man suspected of breaking into his estranged wife’s apartment in central California, authorities said.

Prosecutors charged a teenage driver Wednesday with vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and other counts after she lost control of her car while livestreaming on Instagram and recorded a crash that killed her younger sister.

An 18-year-old woman has been arrested in California on suspicion of causing a deadly crash that she recorded live on Instagram.

An 18-year-old woman has been arrested in Central California on suspicion of causing a deadly crash that was recorded live on Instagram.

A tanker truck on Tuesday flipped over on a Highway 99 off-ramp in Merced County, bursting into flames and killing at least one person.

The family of a man behind the wheel of a tour bus that crashed in Merced County, killing four people, was searching for answers as to how the crash could have happened.

Four people died early Tuesday morning after a tour bus crashed into a sign on the highway in central California on its way up from Mexico, according to the California Highway Patrol.