Joe Cortez

MODESTO — Stanislaus Surgical Hospital, expected to close after state health and safety violations resulted in its removal from Medicare and Medi-Cal insurance programs, is seeking a Hail Mary extension that will keep the 23-bed, acute-care facility open beyond the end of this month.

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In honor of Earth Day, Gov. Gavin Newsom was in rural Stanislaus County on Monday, April 22 to dedicate California’s first new state park in nearly a decade.

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MODESTO — Stanislaus Surgical Hospital, expected to close after state health and safety violations resulted in its removal from Medicare and Medi-Cal insurance programs, has been given notice by a federal agency that the removal from those programs has been reversed.

The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors and other dignitaries pose for a picture following the State of the County address on April 25 (JOE CORTEZ/The Journal).

A flyer who plead guilty to interfering with a flight crew will be on the hook for paying United Airlines for diverting his flight from the U.K. to Newark after threatening to “mess up the plane.”

Sprinter ‘Champaign Blayne’ owns section’s fastest marks in 100, 200

The Pitman High School marching band will perform on Wednesday for residents of Covenant Living assisted-living facility of Turlock, located at 2125 N. Olive Ave.

The Turlock City Council voted during its last meeting to accept the recommendations of the Cannabis Ad-Hoc Committee, then voted to put a proposed cannabis tax on the November ballot.