Politics

Nearly 78 percent of county residents voted to issue $840

Last week, the City of Gilroy denied this newspaper's request for the names of police and fire employees who have retired with disability benefits.

Candidates for Gilroy Mayor—incumbent Marie Blankley and Greg Bozzo—remain reluctant to declare a final result in the Nov. 5 election as officials continue to count ballots cast by local voters.  Bozzo, who owns a local landscaping company, currently holds the lead in the ballot count,...

The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters' Office will host a session for candidates and prospective candidates in the November general election from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 14.

Two San Jose businessmen were nearly neck and neck for the

The bizarre events of December 2015 will be long etched in Gilroy’s political history. Mayor Don Gage stunned the city by resigning without warning a year before his term ended, effectively handing the reins to his political ally, Perry Woodward. The handoff allowed Woodward to run as an incumbent—but not before the duo pushed through approval of a massive farmland annexation that would have, along with other planned developments, made Gilroy one of the Bay Area’s biggest cities—a sprawling urban mass of 120,000 residents, more than double the city’s population today.

Mayor Don Gage's tough stance on fixing up downtown's unreinforced masonry buildings is paying off, according to City staff.

Is it worth nearly $150,000 to give the current councilmembers