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Gilroy Police are investigating an Oct. 8 drive-by shooting in which a 16-year-old boy was injured, according to authorities.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man with a gun in his car after someone reported shots had been fired in the Gilroy area Thursday night, according to authorities.

Everyone is trying to keep up with Ella Rodriguez—including Eric Smith, a certified prosthetist at Shriners Hospital For Children in Sacramento. Rodriguez, a Christopher High sophomore, happens to be a world-ranked paralympian in the shot put, javelin, discus and nationally ranked in the 100-...

Successive stunning announcements about Gilroy High School football players the first two days of October ended the Mustangs’ season after four games. The high school and its athletic program were still reeling a week after a student said he was sexually assaulted on campus by...

The union representing nearly one-half of Santa Clara County’s 22,000 employees went on strike at selected locations Oct.2, the first county employee strike in four decades. Service Employees International Union Local 521 said it called the strike because of the county’s “refusal to bargain in...

Teachers and students at Antonio Del Buono Elementary School got difficult news this past month when they were told that the campus will close at the end of the school year in June 2020.   That’s when Nicole Munoz, who teaches a grade 2-3 combination class,...

Christopher High School Principal Jeremy Dirks, at left in the above photo, and Gilroy Unified School District Superintendent Debbie Flores, at right above, welcomed California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, sitting to the left of Gilroy Mayor Roland Velasco, to a voter registration rally...

Miller Avenue in Gilroy will be closed between Luchessa Avenue and Santa Teresa Boulevard from Saturday, Oct. 5, through Sunday, Oct. 13 to add new streets. Crews are nearing completion of construction of 10th Street between Luchessa Avenue and Santa Teresa Boulevard. To finalize the...

Gilroy’s Bicycle Pedestrian Commission is encouraging the city and Gilroy Gardens to move forward on an “Adventure Park” expansion of the city’s theme park. The commission said it has received 182 emailed public comments, and letters of support for the project from Santa Clara County...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1628, authored by Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) to ease pollution costs for communities.   “I am thrilled that Gov. Newsom has signed AB 1628 into law, a critical step toward achieving environmental justice for communities that too often bear a disproportionate...