There will be no money set aside to pay for the future costs of city retirees’ health benefits, after a tied vote by the Lodi City Council on Wednesday.

The city of Lodi is not setting aside enough to pay for health care for its retirees now or in the future, according to a recent report.

How long does it take one police department to purchase $11,000 in used guns? About three hours. 

The Downtown Lodi Business Partnership is on its way out. The Lodi City Council approved an ordinance to cut off the partnership's ability to levy taxes by shutting down the improvement district that got the group started in 1997.

The LOEL Center has proposed taking over some of the senior programs at Hutchins Street Square, including help with taxes, legal issues and health insurance.

If repairs to two of Lodi's favorite pools aren't completed soon, residents will have slim options for swimming this summer.

The people of Stockton will feel financial fallout for years after a federal judge ruled Monday to let the city become the most populous in the nation to enter bankruptcy.

Catherine Brown lives in a Lodi apartment, and is dedicated to water conservation.

In recent years, she has purchased a low-flow toilet and a front-loading washing machine to reduce her water use. She keeps an eye out for neighboring properties who run too much water, or have leaky sprinkler heads.

But living in an apartment means sharing a water main with dozens of neighbors. The requirement to install water meters means sharing costs with those same neighbors.

Francisco Trujillo, a representative of the Community Partnership for Families, stood before the Lodi City Council on Wednesday and pleaded for funds to provide food, health care and basic services for families on the Eastside, several of whom were seated in the audience at Carnegie Forum.

The council members said their hands were tied, because CPF didn't apply for any money.

The community group was among several nonprofit organizations who are preparing for disappointment.

Today in New York City, a great parade is being held with roughly 150,000 participants marching down Fifth Avenue in a massive celebration of all things Irish.

Members of the Class of 2013 from Lodi and Tokay high schools will not be walking across the iconic Lodi Grape Bowl football field to receive their diplomas upon graduation.

Councilman Bob Johnson wondered this week if a commissioner he appointed twice to a local board was showing up to meetings enough to do her job.

Members of St. Anne's Catholic Church burst into applause after learning that their idea to buy a section of Walnut Street and turn it into a landscaped plaza was approved by the Lodi City Council on Wednesday.

The Lodi City Council approved a resolution last week to increase the salaries for four positions at Lodi Electric Utility. City officials hope the move will entice more applicants with the right qualifications to consider working in Lodi.

Four jobs — including the electric operations superintendent, the manager of engineering and operations, rates and resources engineer and the senior power engineer — will receive a 15 percent raise.

The electric utility director will receive a 5 percent raise to $162,747 to keep an appropriate salary separation, said Ayers.

Due to financial concerns, the organization that promotes Downtown Lodi businesses will fold.

Lodi Health has decided to shutter its Camp Hutchins preschool program after more than 15 years of operating it on city-owned property, after the Lodi City Council gave direction to renegotiate the lease to seek rent.

Like most Lodi football fans, come Sunday I'll be rooting hard for the San Francisco 49ers and local hero Colin Kaepernick. This may be more surprising to readers than they suspect. I'm a native Californian and thus a seemingly obvious 49ers booster. But once in my life the 49ers, named after the 1849 prospectors who mined Northern California, were the team I loved to hate.

We combed through our coverage from 2012 and came up with some top quotes of the year.

The Lodi City Council blocked JoAnne Mounce’s last appointments as mayor to several city boards and commissions after Councilman Bob Johnson accused her of not following city protocol.

In a quick ceremony, Alan Nakanishi was unanimously elected to his second term as mayor in front of about 50 people at Carnegie Forum on Wednesday.

For every month that Galt Mayor Barbara Payne attends a Sacramento Area Council of Governments meeting, she receives $100. She gets the same taxpayer-funded stipend for attending the monthly meetings of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District.

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