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Small businesses are fighting back in a climate of national retailers touting doorbuster sales on Thanksgiving Day, which as early as Tuesday prompted some zealous bargain hunters to pitch a couple tents outside Gilroy’s Best Buy.

The Emergency Housing Consortium LifeBuilders, a Milpitas-based nonprofit which provides shelter housing opportunities and supportive services to people in crisis and the Silicon Valley's homeless, has announced the cold weather shelters will open for the season at 6 p.m. Dec. 2.

Gilroyans Mia and Chris Eaton have spent the holidays over the past year thinking about their son, a U.S. Army sniper, who at any given point could have been laying prone in hostile territory in Afghanistan.

When Gilroy High School senior Erica Fields, 17, told her mom she was wondering who could walk her across the football field as part of Senior Night, she didn't expect a Gilroy firefighter would volunteer.

The Gilroy Chaos Fastpitch Softball team will host tryouts Dec. 7 at Gilroy High School.

The little Gilroy farmers’ market that started on a shoestring budget may finally be here to stay.

City Council is playing hardball in its efforts to get things moving with the Oak Place development, one of the largest building project Gilroy has seen in five years.

The Gilroy Browns junior midget team is prepping for it's trip to Orlando, but they still need your help.

Jennifer Lynn Kranz, or “JLK,” loves Disney princesses, dance parties and the color pink. But life hasn't been a fairytale for the 6-year-old who learned last month – on her birthday – that she has an inoperable tumor growing in her brainstem.

With Thanksgiving approaching, local fire agencies are warning residents about the cooking-related dangers the holiday can pose.