Gilroy Dispatch Staff

Southern California resident Chloe Crossman won the Gilroy Garlic Festival’s nationwide contest to create an official poster design for the 2019 event. 

Santa Clara County officials responded by urging everyone who lives here to participate in the decennial census, which plays a crucial role in determining how much federal funding local communities receive for public services.

More than 100 children, ages 5-13, spent the sunny day running, swimming and navigating their way through an obstacle course set up on the Day Road campus for the event.

A vegetation fire in southeast San Martin spread to engulf a number of farm buildings the afternoon of July 15.

Police are investigating a traffic collision in which a 30-year-old Hollister motorist died while trying to pass another vehicle on Shore Road July 12.

Nobody was hurt after an SUV crashed into a commercial building in downtown Gilroy the morning of July 14.

Police are looking for two suspects who robbed a Gilroy jewelry store at gunpoint Saturday morning.

With the aid of a dozen officers and a smartphone app that Gilroy residents used to easily report fireworks violations, police cited 60 people for the illegal use of fireworks the night of July 4.

A 16-year-old at-risk Gilroy boy is missing, and police are asking the public to report any information about his whereabouts.

With a little help from four-legged friends, Santa Clara County broke ground June 26 on a new $35.3 million, 37,000 square-foot Animal...