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A vote by the city council on the deletion of a few lines of city code this week became a new aspect of the Steven Juarez case. The vote had no direct connection to the case, but the council action had the effect of...

The announcement by President Donald Trump that he is delaying his plan to raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods March 1 was bad news for Gilroy garlic giant Christopher Ranch. The 10 percent tariff imposed on some foreign agricultural imports, including garlic,...

Performance Food Group is putting the finishing touches on its new food distribution plant on South Monterey Road in Gilroy and is hiring workers for the new facility. Performance, one of the nation’s largest prepared food distribution companies, is holding a hiring fair on Thursday,...

South Valley Middle School teacher Rachael Cornaggia was featured in the latest edition of Santa Clara County Office of Education’s “Why I Teach” video public service announcement series in support of the 2019 Teacher Recruitment Fair. In the seventh installment of the series, 2018 Teacher...

Steven Juarez’s body was covered with injuries following the Feb. 25, 2018 struggle with Gilroy police officers that ended in his death at the age of 42, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office report on its yearlong investigation into the incident. Two...

As a kid, Ryan Reyes often spent the first weekend in March watching the CIF State Wrestling Championships at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield. The Gilroy High senior was in attendance when his older brother, Nikko, won the second of his two titles in 2012....

The attendees reiterated their intent to hold Gilroy police accountable for Juarez’s death, just a couple days after the Santa Clara County district attorney announced his office had completed an investigation that exonerated the officers involved in Juarez’s arrest.

The county medical examiner’s office found that Juarez died from “severe drug intoxication complicated by his exertion to escape arrest and the police officers’ less-lethal efforts to detain him."

A U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles rejected a bid by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to block the purchase of two failing Verity Health System hospitals by Santa Clara County. The Feb. 22 ruling cleared the way for the county to close its...

For the first time in a decade, Gilroy school leaders will be searching for a new principal at Gilroy High School after veteran administrator Marco Sanchez announced he is resigning at the end of the school year in June. “After 10 wonderful and amazing years...