Politics

The Gilroy City Council Monday passed an ordinance limiting the amount of time stores can post banners, keeping them mostly around holidays.

Gilroy might want to brace for an onslaught of circus goers.

Marilia Andrade, 67, lives alone at The Village Green, a seniors only gated community in Gilroy. Past the gate, the grass surrounding her apartment is green and well manicured. New looking and well-maintained homes sit nearby in a quiet and cozy neighborhood. In her room, Andrade, wearing a comfortable blue gown and pink and blue knitted cap, is still moving in. It's been a busy year for her. For three months she received chemotherapy to treat her pancreatic cancer and losing part of her freedom has been a difficult transition.

Marijuana may be legal in California, but to federal officials it’s as illegal as cocaine, warned Philip Griego, an attorney who briefed Gilroy business people on marijuana in the workplace Wednesday.

52 at Ferguson. If you're a Gilroy resident, or a commuter from outside of the area, you know the spot I'm talking about. The "new" light at the intersection of 152 and Ferguson that went in a few years ago. If you live close like I do, you know how often things go wrong or happen at this exact spot. The lights were put in to "help" with the fender benders and multitude of accidents that happened when it was just a stop sign. Too many people were impatient and caused gridlock right at this spot from all directions.

In a 4-3 vote, the Gilroy City Council on Monday took a big step in approving the design of a 73-unit housing project south of Hecker Pass Highway.

Rich Ragasa was walking his 10-pound poodle mix named Penny at Sunrise Park at 7:30 p.m. March 11, as he did every evening, when a pair of pit bulls approached, unleashed, from behind.

Gilroy’s three biggest public employers have amassed more than $183 million in unpaid pension liabilities. That’s likely more than ever, and a figure that, absent major reform, will grow and siphon budget funds from essential public services, say officials and pension experts.

As dance music thumps through the cozy bike shop at the corner of Welburn Avenue and Church Street, proprietor of Shifty Cycles, Kevin Griffin, points to a hanging aluminum sign with an illustration of a kid doing a turn on his bike and the words “NBL Gilroy BMX.”

Salary and benefit hikes for Gilroy city employees were the highest among Santa Clara County municipalities in the first half of the decade, while earnings for regular workers were stagnant, according to data published online by the nonprofit watchdog group Transparent California.