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The future of this year’s Hollister Independence Rally could be decided this month as event promoter Roadshows Inc. tries to wrap up enough sponsors...

Countless motorcycles lined San Benito Street this weekend as the 70th anniversary Hollister Independence Rally kicked into high gear. Downtown swarmed with bikers of all...

Do you feel bad to the bone? If so, the Hollister Independence Rally will ride back into town over the last weekend this month. The...

The Hollister motorcycle rally is officially set for July 1-3 after the council’s narrow support of a new promoter Monday.

Despite concerns over a prior promoter’s $90,000 deficit owed from the 2015 Hollister Freedom Rally, council members Monday agreed to prepare a request for proposal to solicit a new organizer of the city’s signature event.

Hollister City Manager Bill Avera on Monday indicated that the promoter of the community's signature event, the Independence Day motorcycle rally, wants to move the event so it starts the second Friday of July each year and misses the holiday altogether.

Hollister Police Chief David Westrick late Saturday afternoon said there hadn’t been any serious issues with crime on the second day of the Hollister Freedom Rally.

On the first day of the Hollister Freedom Rally, it was already apparent to some that the event was off to a good start. Mayor Ignacio Valazquez said by what he was seeing, it appeared the rally was going to be bigger than the previous year’s rally.

Motorcycle riders visiting Hollister during the Independence Day weekend are here for an experience and are willing to pay for it, said Ignacio Velazquez, the city’s mayor.

Hollister council members Monday night were scheduled to consider a proposal in closed session to mandate closure of bars at midnight during the motorcycle rally, an idea that has one establishment’s owner “praying” officials reject it.