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The County of Santa Clara’s Animal Services Department, which includes the San Martin animal shelter and the animal care and control unit, has achieved 94.3 percent live release rate—one of the best in California. The current rate of pet adoptions from the San Martin shelter...

Crowds lined the streets of downtown Gilroy on May 27 to honor fallen but not forgotten heroes. School bands, classic cars and horses drew applause along the parade route, as did local Girl Scouts, top photo, and kids on horseback, above. American Legion Post...

Waste management firm Recology honored Tacos Ameca with a Recycler of the Year award at the Gilroy City Council meeting May 20. Recology resource specialist Julie Alter said when city officials sent the restaurant a letter about Assembly Bill 1826, a 2014 bill signed by...

The state Assembly on March 24 approved legislation introduced by Assemblymember Robert Rivas that aims to make is easier for farmers to build family-friendly housing for farmworkers. The bill won with bipartisan support on a 59-11 vote in the Assembly, and will now be heard...

Gilroy High School’s Class of 2019 will receive their diplomas at 6pm June 7 on the 750 W. 10th St. campus, while Christopher High School will distribute diplomas to its graduating seniors at 6pm, June 6 at the 850 Day Road campus. Gilroy Unified School...

Gilroy Police are trying to identify the suspect or suspects who stabbed 29-year-old Johnathan Arroyo Rivera to death just after midnight Friday.

What was expected to be an end to a 13-year journey for the South Valley Islamic Center trying to open the Cordoba Center mosque and cemetery in San Martin, was instead another set of changes and obstacles for the project.

Is there room in the garlic game for two California cities? Fresno is coming after Gilroy’s garlic crown. Gilroy’s official city motto is "The City with the Spice for Life” and it proudly proclaims itself  “Garlic Capital of the World”—but there’s another city now claiming...

California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra is accusing the Trump Administration of “trying to exact political retribution” on California by pulling federal funds from the state’s High-Speed Rail project. In a lawsuit filed May 21 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by the State of...

Princeton-bound Samantha Melton, a senior at Dr. TJ Owens Gilroy Early College Academy, was named a 2019 National Merit Scholar winner, according to an announcement from Gilroy Unified School District. Melton, who was honored by the Board of Education for her accomplishment earlier this month,...