Politics

Caltrain's board of directors approved a proposal Thursday that

Gilroyans say the Alexander Station Apartments, a $95 million project on the corner of 10th Street and Alexander, will be filled with residents bused in from Oakland and will lower the quality of the neighborhood. They say there aren’t enough classrooms for the kids and the future students will be bused to far away schools, rather than those they can walk to.

Ryan Nguyen, 18, had just dropped his sister off at Ascension Solorsano Middle School and headed out Christmas Hill Park last May, when the bottom fell out of his car. Literally.

The high stakes power play to find an end game for Gilroy's unreinforced masonry building issue – a 30-year saga concerning the plight of downtown’s 18 buildings deemed structurally unfit to survive a major earthquake – took a giant step in the City's favor Monday night in Council chambers.

The Gilroy City Council and members of the Gilroy Economic

Gilroy Dispatch: Briefly describe your background and experience. Why are you qualified for this position?

The last day for candidates to submit qualifying paperwork to run in local elections on the November ballot is Aug. 9.  As of Aug. 7, two of three Gilroy City Council incumbents—Zach Hilton and Fred Tovar—whose terms expire this year have declared their candidacy to...

Since October 2013, a group of 25-community members, consultants under a $1.75 million contract with the City and planning staff have been developing Gilroy's vision for growth through the creation of a new 20-year General Plan.

UPDATED: After mulling over the issue for a day and a half,

After a neck-and-neck race, prosecutor Jeff Rosen edged out his