Politics

Ballots and other information contained in the Santa Clara County vote-by-mail packet will be sent to more than 1.04 million local voters starting this week, according to election officials. The packets for the Nov. 5 general election are being mailed to every active registered...

In the Nov. 5 election for Mayor of Gilroy, incumbent Marie Blankley is running for her second term while local business owner Greg Bozzo is challenging her in Bozzo’s first run at a political office.  In Gilroy, the mayor is elected to a four-year term.  In...

A five-story apartment complex and the tallest building in the Garlic Capital—proposed to be 58 feet tall—is coming to downtown as soon as summer of 2016. The 263-unit affordable housing complex, developed by Idaho-based multifamily housing group Pacific Companies, is scheduled for construction on the southwest corner of 10th and Alexander streets.

GILROY—Caltrans is inching towards completion of an $18 million project to add carpool lanes, meters and traffic surveillance cameras to U.S. 101 on-ramps in Gilroy, Morgan Hill and South San Jose.

The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters' Office will host a candidate session, which is free and open to the public, from 10 a.m. to noon July 14 inside the auditorium near the ROV Office located at 1555 Berger Drive, Building 2, in San Jose.

Mayor Don Gage is tired of tackling Gilroy's capital improvement projects in piecemeal fashion and is proposing a “Quality of Life” bond measure that could create a revenue stream ranging from $25 to $35 million for the city.