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Gilroy Ostrich Farm’s Halloween Spooktacular is back, and more animals are heading to their new home soon. Farm Manager Tiffany Lorenzo said the farm will soon welcome peacocks, donkeys, turkeys and more who will join the current residents that include goats, alpacas, rabbits, chickens and…dinosaurs? The...

Gilroy resident Fernando Sanchez had just gotten out of school and was hanging out with some friends one afternoon last March when the group decided to recreationally consume pills they thought were the anti-anxiety medication Xanax. The teens had purchased the drug from a local...

A former Gilroy educator pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud for soliciting donations from individuals to help her pay for cancer treatments she did not need nor received, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Amanda Christine Riley admitted to purposely deceiving people into thinking she...

Homecoming takes on a whole new meaning for 2020 Christopher High graduate Maya Tabron, who will be playing in front of her family and friends for the first time since her senior year of high school.  The starting sophomore outside hitter is one of the...

A developer has proposed to annex 194 acres of agricultural land in southwest Gilroy and build up to 1,195 residential units, according to a conceptual plan submitted to the city in July. The proposal, in the early stages, could take years to play out, as...

Community altars mark Dia de los Muertos Dia de los Muertos altars are now on display at the Gilroy Center for the Arts through Nov. 3. This year’s exhibit, titled “Honoring our Ancestors through Community,” is a community collective display. The goal of the display, according...

The Northern California Renaissance Faire festivities continued this past weekend as hundreds of guests showed up to celebrate Oktoberfest inside the makeshift town of Willington at Casa de Fruta. The festival features crafts such as ceramics and sculpture, clothing, glass art, hats and garlands, jewelry...

Winning ugly. Over the course of a football season, teams will endure games in which their performance is far from impressive. But in the end, they persevere to record a victory.  That was exactly the situation for Gilroy High as it edged Soledad High 21-20...

Kathleen Rose will retire from her position as Gavilan College’s superintendent and president on July 1. Rose made the announcement during the Oct. 7 Board of Trustees Development meeting. “My family and I are ready for a new chapter in my life and after many months...

Health officials across nine Bay Area jurisdictions announced their criteria Thursday to eventually lift the region's requirement to wear a mask indoors regardless of vaccination status. The health officers in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties and...