Biking is popular in the Lodi area, but Sunday's ride was different.

Downtown Lodi usually isn’t a crowded place on Sundays. Aside from the movie theater and restaurants, business owners often take the day off after what they hope was a busy Saturday.

But Downtown looked a lot different this weekend. It was filled with Lodi residents and out-of-towners alike participating in the third annual Lodi Cycle Fest, a figure-eight course that exposes people to the trees and historical buildings that Downtown offers.

Orville "Buck" Eugene Wade, 81, of Galt, died Jan. 14. He was born March 6, 1929 in Oklahoma.

Emergency workers know dealing with disaster is part of their job. But exactly what that disaster will be is not so certain. For San Joaquin County, possibilities include fire, flood, nuclear contamination, earthquake and terrorist attack.

A teenage boy who allegedly was held captive in a Tracy home endured frequent beatings, often in front of other young children in the house, that worsened over the year he spent there, according to grand jury testimony made public Friday.

As word quickly spread Thursday that four bombs in London had killed nearly 40 people and injured hundreds, local and state officials learned that domestic terror alerts had increased.

Emergency agencies have issued tsunami warnings for Northern California and said evacuations in some areas could be possible, but conditions in the San Joaquin Delta remain unaffected at this point.

Parks along the Mokelumne River will remain closed until the river slows to a more recreation-friendly pace.

In what could be his last out-of-town fire-fighting tour, Lodi Fire Capt. Sandy Wichman along with three other Lodi firefighters joined a larger strike team Thursday morning and headed south to help fight the Southern California wildfires.

With the possibility of nuclear threats to the United States from North Korea and even Iran, it starting to almost feel more like 1956 than 2006.

At 9:20 p.m. Monday night, a female victim was robbed by two suspects in the Food-4-Less Supermarket parking lot.