The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted 3-2 to authorize the county administrator to negotiate development agreements with commercial cannabis businesses, with supervisors Bob Elliott and Chuck Winn casting the dissenting votes.

Idol Beer Works is ringing in the new year with the Scottish tradition of Hogmanay on Monday.

Although the Camp Fire has been put out, the relief efforts to help the people of Paradise and surrounding areas have not been extinguished.

Today marked the grand opening of the second Village Coffee Shop location at 700 E. Victor Road in Lodi.

Tennis players, swimmers and employees alike gathered at Twin Arbors Tennis Club on Cochran Road Friday morning for an all-day pot luck to celebrate their time at the club, which is closing its doors after approximately 40 years in Lodi.

With big-box stores and online retailers luring consumers with blockbuster deals to open the Christmas season, many communities came together to celebrate Small Business Saturday last weekend.

After finishing their Thanksgiving meals, many Lodians will head out to various stores in the city for special Black Friday discounts. Some stores won’t open until Friday morning, but others will give shoppers a chance to get an early start by opening their doors today.

On a smoky Wednesday afternoon, Julie Coldani, co-founder and director of sales, events and marketing for Coldani Olive Ranch, inspected some of the Arbequina olives — not yet ripe — harvested from their fields on Thornton Road just north of Lodi.

As a mother of five boys, Jade Watts has been faced with the difficulties of balancing work with getting her children where they need to be. When she worked a full-time job, she would have to use her lunch break to pick up her children and would end up hungry until she got off work.