When it comes to real estate prices, some small towns are doing much better than big ones in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.

Dave Wilson Nursery, a Hickman-area business that grows and markets Floyd Zaiger's fruit varieties, will join the Stanislaus County Ag Hall of Fame in November.

Emily Kosky said her final goodbye Saturday morning, stroking the neck of her Boer goat as it gobbled up a breakfast of protein-fortified pellets and alfalfa.

Dan Repke of Hickman is one frustrated gold seeker. He's been mining since 1970, sometimes with a pan and sluice box, and at other times with a suction dredge.

A car thief bitten by a sheriff's K-9 has filed a $750,000 claim against Stanislaus County.

Stanislaus County nursery operator Michael Frantz enclosed his family's entire operation in miles of chain link fencing.

A Patterson girl broke her left arm in several places Thursday evening after she bounced off her bed and out a second-story bedroom window, officials said.

The second funeral for Hickman rancher Frank E. Craig will begin at 1 p.m. today at the Turlock Memorial Park Chapel.

Kristin Michelle Lilly of Visalia, daughter of Guy and Nancy Lilly, will be getting married to Cody Porter, son of Jim and Alyson Porter of Hickman, CA.