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The Gilroy Police Department has been inundated with credit card fraud cases over the weekend. During the investigation of these cases, it was learned the majority of victims used their credit/ATM cards at the Valero gas station, located at 1190 First Street, in...

A new Gilroy business is doing its part to help the environment by using nature to help nature. Filtrexx, an Akron, Ohio-based company, recently held its ribbon-cutting ceremony and is hitting the ground running, pumping out thousands of yards of products that use a...

Remember that feeling heading into your first job interview? The panic? Dread? The confusion and uncertainty? Did you have any idea what you were doing? If so, you’re like millions of Americans who stumble into job interviews. To help prepare for this critical skill, the...

For members of the City of Gilroy Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission, the ride has been a little bumpy. For Zach Hilton, a first-year chairperson and a Gilroyan who works as a firefighter in Oakland, maneuvering around the bumps in the road are worth the...

People in Gilroy neighborhoods may be allowed to use radar guns to monitor and report traffic violations in their neighborhoods, the City Council suggested Monday. After an hour-long discussion about people speeding and cutting through neighborhoods, endangering children and pedestrians, the council voted unanimously to...

The Gilroy Planning Commission bucked the city staff’s recommendation and opened the door to possible recreational cannabis sales in Gilroy Thursday. In a 5-1 vote, with Tom Fischer voting against it, the commission decided not to strengthen anti-marijuana laws before the state legalizes the herb...

Gilroy is about to get a new dog food company thanks to Hollister’s looser cannabis cultivation laws and the run up on building prices they are bringing about. Green Tripe, which sells millions of dollars a year of raw dog food around the world, is...

When Gilroy High School graduate Tyler Park, 26, was at U.C. Davis studying political science, he wasn’t sure what he’d do with his life. Then he went to a mock trial club run by his roommate, and fell in love with the law. “For some reason,...

Gilroy is proud to be acknowledged as a Tree City USA city. Right? Actually, no. At a meeting of the Parks and Recreation Commission,  Recreation Manager Adam Henig revealed that Gilroy is no longer an official Tree City. Why? Somebody in City Hall forgot to apply. In...

Unlike what’s going on in neighboring Hollister, the green dreams of pot entrepreneurs in Gilroy are drying up. The city has already legislated against medical marijuana dispensaries and will take action in the next few weeks to ban recreational growing and sales of cannabis. “We have...