Crime

The Loma Fire, west of Morgan Hill, in the Santa Cruz Mountains is now 74 percent controlled and has destroyed 4,474 acres. 

A fast-moving fire helped by remote topography, low humidity and hot weather, scorched 1,500 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains along the Santa Cruz-Santa Clara County border 11 miles west of Morgan Hill. It has burned one house and threatens 300 others.

Everywhere Gilroy Police Officer Mark Tarasco drives, he sees raised thumbs and hears whoops of joy—at least 10 a day.

Nine months after a Gilroy Police officer shot and killed a suspected domestic abuser, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office issued a 32-page report finding that the officer wasn’t at fault in the death of Hector Alvarez, 19, identified as a Norteño gang member with a history of domestic abuse.

August 29

Gilroy Police helped catch a murder suspect from Los Banos Saturday morning on the 700 block of Dartmouth Place in Gilroy.

The Hollister-Gilroy Area CHP office will beef up DUI enforcement patrol starting Friday, September 2-Monday September 5. “Too many lives are lost on our roadways every year as a result of impaired driving. Let’s end the summer safely and remember to designate a sober driver,...

A builder faces possible six-figure fines in connection with a massive spill of silt-laden, construction runoff water into a Gilroy creek near Christmas Hill Park from the Glen Loma Ranch subdivision under construction on the west side of town.

It’s been a crazy few weeks on the Gilroy crime beat. There’s been a $35,000 jewelry heist, a driver ramming a police car, a major arson at Christmas Hill Park and a slew of car thefts, car break-ins and credit card fraud.

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