Politics

The city's proposed budget includes a hiring freeze, but it does

A relief from the otherwise long meeting, the city council

Gilroy City Councilman and Democrat, Peter Leroe-Muñoz has launched a campaign for State Assembly District 30. Rep. Anna Caballero, who currently holds the seat, cannot run next year due to term limits.

Unless the city's four unions make major concessions this week,

In response to a string of theft of copper wire from city-owned facilities over the past two years, Gilroy officials are considering adding teeth to regulations surrounding metal recycling within city limits. State law requires scrap metal recyclers document each transaction and record the seller’s name as a way to prevent theft, but compliance across California varies.

The Bay Area Congressional delegation—Rep. Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA-16) and Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17)—wrote to President Joe Biden on Jan. 19 to request that relief for Santa Clara County be included in the Presidential Major Declaration for...

After selling new cars into the pre-dawn hours at a breakneck

Two candidates are vying for one contested seat on the Gavilan Joint Community College District Board of Trustees in the Nov. 8 election, the first district election in the school’s nearly 100-year history.

Upgrading the city’s aging IT infrastructure and keeping Gilroy on sound fiscal footing in the face of growing budget pressures were two of city council’s top stated priorities for the next two-to-three years, as discussed on Saturday during the council’s annual goal-setting retreat.

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