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Election officials have already mailed out ballots to registered voters in San Benito County, and installed drop boxes for residents to submit their ballots at their convenience before Nov. 3.

The Hollister Police Department announced that officers were able to seize guns, ammunition, money and other contraband during a routine traffic stop on Thursday evening. Police officers arrested Daniel Ramirez, 20, on suspicion of multiple gun related offenses along with drug dealing charges and a...

Hollister native Rosa Miramon Azevedo, a nurse and mother of four boys who was known for her caring spirit, has been identified as the motorist who died in a Jan. 14 traffic collision on Highway 156. She was 37 years old.  Azevedo’s family recently established...

Construction is under way at the Fairview Road site of Gavilan College’s new San Benito County campus.  Delivering on current and future needs of its new students, the new campus project marks a “homecoming” for Gavilan College, which was founded in Hollister in 1919, says...

San Benito County has seen a huge jump of Covid-19 cases since the end of July. Public Health Services say a lot of it stems from residents continuing to host and attend private gatherings without practicing social distancing.   Public health officials on Aug. 27 issued...

It’s all but official—Kollin Kosmicki has won the San Benito County District 2 Supervisor contest. In what turned out to be the closest local race, the San Juan Bautista resident totaled 2,819 votes (51.3 percent) to Wayne Norton’s 2,671 (48.6 percent) in the latest...

The Hollister Independence Rally was postponed for yet another year due to concerns and safety precautions related to the Covid-19 pandemic.   But that didn’t stop hundreds of bikers who came from far and wide on July 3 to celebrate what would’ve been the 74th Anniversary...

San Benito County moved forward with opening hair salons and barbershops as the county qualified for the local variance for the expansion of Phase 2 in the state’s roadmap to reopen.              On May 26, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the reopening guidance for hair salons and...

Hollister Police arrested six motorists on suspicion of DUI during heightened enforcement efforts during two September weekends, according to authorities.

A 60-year-old woman died in a traffic collision on Highway 152 north of Hollister July 31, according to authorities. About 11:15am, the California Highway Patrol received a call reporting a collision on State Route 152 just west of the intersection of Lover’s Lane in Santa...