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The Gilroy City Council last week decided to add another public hearing to its scheduled outreach efforts to create new districts that will take effect in the 2026 and 2028 elections.  That leaves two more public hearings before the council decides which district map to...

Authorities arrested a man who is accused of assaulting and kidnapping a woman in Gilroy over this past weekend.  On Dec. 13, Gilroy Police received a call about a woman being held against her will at a motel on Monterey Road, the Gilroy Police Department...

The Valley Water Board of Directors elected Tony Estremera as the Chair for 2025, and Richard P. Santos as Vice Chair. The board voted on their new officers at the Dec. 10 meeting.  Estremera has been on the Valley Water Board since 1996, and is...

Gilroy native and recent Monte Vista Christian graduate Brendan Doyle wasn’t receiving offers from any four-year programs that piqued his interest, so he did the next best thing—he decided to enroll at the College of San Mateo (CSM).  The Bulldogs annually rank as one of...

The California Highway Patrol and Cal Fire were on the scene of a truck fire on southbound U.S. Highway 101, just south of the Cochrane Road exit Monday afternoon.  Reports of a truck carrying propane that caught fire came in at approximately 1:24pm July 1,...

Four San Jose non-citizen permanent residents received Santa Clara County 2022 election ballots even though they are not U.S. citizens, according to a concerned family friend and copies of documents reviewed by this newspaper. The four were sponsored by their brother to live in the...

Some South County businesses have been fined thousands of dollars for alleged violations of the state and local Covid-19 public health guidelines since Black Friday weekend 2020, when enforcement officers stopped offering proprietors a grace period to correct the offenses before issuing penalties. Fines levied...

Investigators arrested more than a dozen people suspected of being involved in catalytic converter thefts from vehicles in cities throughout the Bay Area, according to San Jose Police.  The arrest of 15 suspects over several weeks was the culmination of a six-month investigation into the...

Representatives of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, Caltrans and local public officials on May 23 marked the groundbreaking of the long-anticipated US 101/SR 25 Interchange Upgrade Project just south of Gilroy.  The project is designed to ease congestion, improve safety and better connect South...

A San Mateo County judge has refused to seal a portion of civil grand jury testimony in a public corruption case against Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith. Judge Nancy Fineman denied a motion on Feb. 22 to seal testimony given by insurance broker Harpreet...