January 28, 2025 - By Francesca Dinglasan - Give to UC Merced, the university’s annual year-end fundraising campaign, was the most successful of its 11-year history, garnering nearly $1.43 million from 647 donors. The tremendous show of generosity far exceeded the original goal of $250,000 from 500 donors.

Simpson University's men's basketball team is determined to turn their season around, and their recent performance against UC Merced suggests they might

Marchers make their way along Martine Luther King Jr. Way during an annual Peace and Unity march to honor the legacy of late civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Merced, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

President Jimmy Carter made his way to a young UC Merced campus to accept the Spendlove Prize in social justice, diplomacy and tolerance in 2010.

Tuesday's report, too rapid for peer-review yet, found global warming boosted the likelihood of high fire weather conditions in this month's fires by 35% and its intensity by 6%.

US officials are investigating the appearance of a strain of bird flu identified in the US for the first time, a worrying sign that the virus is evolving in ways that could make it harder to

As the price for a carton of eggs continues to soar nationwide, so does the number of bird flu cases. Now, a new variant has been detected in Merced County.

What does a 3-inch-long, nearly extinct fish native to California’s Sacramento-San ... a sociology professor at Tufts University writing on a book about the politics of the delta smelt.

First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment that could trigger human outbreaks.

Extreme conditions helped fuel the fast-moving fires that destroyed thousands of homes. Scientists are working to figure out how climate change played a role in the disaster.

President Donald Trump’s plan to increase enforcement of undocumented residents in the U.S. has placed a number of people on edge.

Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found.