Politics

GILROY—More than 4,400 rural residents in Santa Clara County, nearly half in South County, will open mailboxes in May to find bills for a controversial fire protection fee levied by Cal Fire, the state’s fire fighting arm.

A lawsuit brought on six months ago by two Gilroy firefighter battalion chiefs who are accusing the City of cheating them of thousands of dollars in unpaid overtime is dragging its way to a settlement conference before a judge in January, according to court records.

As he headed home from a wastewater meeting Tuesday morning,

City Council is coming after check cashing and payday loan businesses with torches and pitchforks, following a disparaging critique of the industry that could potentially shut such operations down in Gilroy.

Many councilmembers have renewed their interest in secrecy

In the Nov. 6 election for three four-year seats on the Gilroy City Council, there were no surprises. Not so for the single two-year seat. In the major upset of Election Day in Gilroy, incumbent Dan Harney lost to slow-growth advocate Carol Marques for the open...

While 48 full-time city employees were pleading for and

As the question of whether to impeach President Donald Trump loomed over the California Democratic Convention the weekend of May 31, local representatives continued to resist the pressure to advocate impeachment. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi grew more emboldened in her calls to hold...

Gilroy's planning commission on Thursday unanimously recommended