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A controversial 75-unit, four-story Gateway Apartments senior housing project on Monterey Road took a big step forward this month as the city council approved a $25 million dollar construction bond. The controversy isn’t in the money, which is coming from the state, but from the...

Gilroy City Councilman Paul Kloecker died from lung disease Friday morning bringing to a close a lifetime of service to his country, community and love for family and friends. Kloecker, 82, won his first of three terms on the Gilroy City Council in 1981 when...

Several thousand Gilroyans lined the streets Sunday to cheer on the Gilroy and Christopher High football teams which won their respective California Interscholastic Federation section championships, the first time both won simultaneously. Gilroy won a championship in 1926. The parade, which started near the Gilroy...

The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory and Red Flag Warning for the San Francisco Bay Area and much of Northern California. This warning is in effect from 10pm Friday December 15, 2017 through 10am Sunday December 17, 2017 for higher than...

Longtime public servant Paul Kloecker, 82, died Friday morning. Kloecker, who lived in Gilroy for more than three decades, served on the City Council from 1983-1995 and rejoined the City Council in 2016. He was a dedicated public servant and was committed to the community in...

Starting in January it will cost 50 cents more to take a Valley Transit Authority express bus one way, $20 more for a monthly pass and $220 more for a yearly express pass. But there’s some good news: Some youth fares will drop on buses...

For Gilroy Pride, the 2017 Christmas Parade was a coming-out party of sorts. The organization, which started only six months ago and has 178 members on its Facebook page, was out, loud and proud in a city that had never had a Pride group. The...

When NFL dreams ended for Gilroy entrepreneur Benjamin Pope, 32, a new one began. He would help Gilroyans get food without leaving their homes or desks. “I was sitting on the couch rehabbing from an ACL injury last December and that’s when I came up...

The city council has extended the deadline for applying for boards and commissions into next year, after a record low number of people showed up to apply for the jobs last week. According to Mayor Roland Velasco, there has never been such a dearth of...

The newest employee at Gilroy’s Hilton Garden Inn never sleeps or eats. And with the opening of the latest Star Wars movie this week, he’s bound to have plenty of young fans. He’s a three-foot-high, 100-pound robot named Archie, who delivers room service food and...