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The Hollister Police Department received a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety to support ongoing local enforcement and education programs to help reduce the number of serious injuries and deaths on the city’s roads.  The grant program runs through September 2026, says a...

Millions of people across the U.S. gathered in thousands of cities Oct. 18 to protest the Donald Trump Administration. Known nationwide as the “No Kings” protest, demonstrators included hundreds in San Juan Bautista and Hollister. Local protesters displayed handmade signs criticizing the Trump Administration’s...

Your Sept. 26 editorial, “When National Headlines Collide with National News” regarding the massive and successful boycott of ABC/Disney, Sinclair and Nexstar distributors (who have since also acquiesced) was tone-death!  It minimized the threats to our freedom of speech. You missed the whole point! This...

A series of earthquakes struck an area between Salinas and Hollister on Thanksgiving, with the largest measuring magnitude 4.0, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The sequence began at 12:10pm on Nov. 27, when a magnitude 2.7 earthquake was recorded south of San Juan...

Kathryn Benton was a privileged young student with every advantage money could buy, but when she suddenly becomes the target of a massive nationwide manhunt, her comfortable world crumbles in an instant in “Dead by Monday,” the debut thriller from Morgan Hill author Chuck...

Voters in San Benito County Supervisorial District 5 will have a chance to vote whether to recall their incumbent in the June 2 election.  The local registrar of voters’ office has consolidated the recall election of Supervisor Ignacio Velazquez onto the statewide 2026 gubernatorial primary...

The public review period is open for the Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND) for San Benito County’s 2023-31 Housing Element Implementation Project. The public review period started Sept. 12 and continues through Oct. 13. The county recently posted its Notice of Intent to...

San Benito County has recovered nearly $700,000 stolen from a recent vendor payment fraud scheme, according to the county Auditor-Controller’s Office.  The recovery of the funds will allow the county to “issue proper payment to the legitimate vendor,” Auditor-Controller Joe Paul Gonzalez said in a...

If you can read this letter, maybe you should thank a teacher. The week of Nov. 2-8 is California Retired Teachers Week, and we all owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to those teachers who not only taught us but helped shape us in...

Graniterock recently submitted a permit to San Benito County to extend its earth reclamation and revegetation operations within the existing footprint of its Wilson Quarry property.  The quarry, located in Aromas, is about 847 acres, and the permit submitted to the county’s Resource Management Agency...