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The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a Spare the Air Alert Thursday, Aug. 23, as ozone and particulate pollution from Northern California and Sierra Nevada wildfires reached dangerous levels from San Francisco to San Luis Obispo. On Thursday the most dangerous area, with...

Football is a 'what have you done for me lately' kind of sport and Christopher High coach Tim Pierleoni knows it. One year after winning the Central Coast Section Division IV playoff championship, the Cougars won't only be asked to repeat their postseason performance...

After going undefeated and winning its first-ever Central Coast Section championship, what can Gilroy High possibly do for an encore? What we do know is that the Mustangs have a new head coach, Jake Newman, a promotion into a tougher division, the Pacific Coast...

Football is a 'what have you done for me lately' kind of sport and Christopher High coach Tim Pierleoni knows it. One year after winning the Central Coast Section Division IV playoff championship, the Cougars won't only be asked to repeat their postseason performance...

Last year was a season to forget for Gavilan College. Amid violations and an 0-10 record, stability is what the program needed. John Lango stepped in, back in charge of a team he led from 2000 to 2010. If Lango is going to bring...

Third-year principal Patricia Mondragón, along with new assistant principal Zane Boehlke and academic counselors Lilia Cisnero and Claudia Valencia, helped South Valley Middle School staff welcome back 865 students to the IOOF Avenue campus Aug. 16 for the start of the 2018-19 school year.“We...

Miller Avenue will be closed Aug. 27 and possibly Aug. 28 as part of the 10th street extension project. The closure will take place from 8:30 am to 2 pm with a detour on Thomas Rd. The extension of 10th street is part of...

Picture it. A 500-room, upscale, family-friendly, all-inclusive, revenue-generating, notoriety-generating water park/hotel on vacant city-owned land next to a city-owned theme park, Gilroy Gardens, which was eager for quick access to new customers. Such was the promise of Great Wolf, a company that refocused its initial...

Gilroy officials have turned to homegrown administrator Jeremy Dirks to bring back some stability to the principal’s office at Christopher High School, which is now on its third principal in as many years. Dirks, who was promoted from his assistant principal’s position at South Valley...

Gilroy officials agree with a county grand jury report that says the city’s police department should expand its crisis intervention training programs in order to improve their responses to the growing volume of incidents involving mentally ill residents. “The police department is planning to review...