Gilroy Welcome Center to open Friday
The opening of the new Gilroy Welcome Center is nearly here.
Temporary Chief is a Longtime Veteran
After a gang shooting at a Monterey Road gas station in the 1990s wounded innocent passersby, Gilroy officials realized they had a growing gang problem.
Council to consider 112-acre Meritage Homes development
The Gilroy City Council will vote on a tentative map and hold a public hearing at the Oct. 21 meeting for a 186 single-family residential lot development located in the East Cluster of the Hecker Pass Specific Plan Area.
Mayor leaves supe’s office
Gilroy Mayor Roland Velasco has left his job as an aide to Santa County Supervisor Mike Wasserman, saying he wants to devote a full-time focus to his part-time role at City Hall.
Velasco, elected to his first term in 2016, said this week he left...
Q&A with Gilroy City Council candidate Pasquale Greco
Before interviewing the candidates, the Editorial Board of the
Council debates proposed election ethics ordinance
For the first time since it was conceived by a city open
Election 2014: Meet the candidates
The Gilroy Dispatch conducted Q&As with all the candidates for both the Gilroy City Council and the Gilroy Unified School District's Board of Education. Click on either collection below to read what each candidate had to say.
Supreme Court hears appeal of CA statute
The U.S. Supreme Court justices Tuesday heard arguments in its first abortion-related case under President Trump, and “pregnancy centers” in Gilroy and Hollister were center stage.
In a story that led nearly every major national news report on Tuesday, lawyers for the National Institute of...



















