Could a potential downgrading of the city’s fire department lead to an increase in homeowners insurance rates, or is it a political smokescreen?

Despite two council members expressing reservations, the Lodi City Council voted unanimously to back San Joaquin County Supervisor Chuck Winn in his opposition of a proposed county business tax on the sale of recreational cannabis.

Second-graders at Ellerth E. Larson Elementary School in Lodi lined up in front of their school on Tuesday morning, watching eagerly as pumpkins donated by Ripken Vineyards and Winery were unloaded from a flatbed truck.

Although the Lodi Boys and Girls Club said earlier this month that they might have to close their doors after 55 years due to a lack of funding, the club may be able to stay open after all.

COURTLAND — “Wow!” exclaimed Santiago Navarro, 9, at the sight of his multi-colored corn, minutes after picking it fresh off the corn stalk Tuesday morning at Steamboat Acres.

The San Joaquin Regional Transit District is expanding the hours of its RTD Go! service.

After Mayor Alan Nakanishi welcomed Chief Tod Patterson and Capt. David Griffin of the Lodi Police Department to Monday evening’s town hall meeting on this year’s crime statistics in Carnegie Forum, City Manager Steve Schwabauer took a moment to thank the department for its continued service.

A planned estate sale in Lodi containing a vast collection of local historical items has been called off after it was discovered on Thursday that many items had been stolen the night before. The living estate sale of local historian Ralph Lea was scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at his property on North Locust Tree Road, where Lea had accumulated a massive repository of historic mementos and documents.

Lodian Ron Portal on Tuesday received a call from someone claiming to work for the San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters, he said, who told him that there was a mistake in the wording for Proposition 6 — which would require voter approval for certain fuel taxes and vehicle fees — on the sample ballot.