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A 22-year-old Gilroy woman died in an early morning traffic accident at a busy intersection in San Benito County July 20, according to authorities.

Hollister School District partnered with Chartwell School of the Central Coast to train its Resource Specialists on the use of a highly specialized instructional approach for students who have learning disabilities, according to a recent press release. “One of the district’s responses to improving special...

Faced with a need to increase San Benito County coffers, officials are considering the creation of commercial zones at four intersections along Highway 101. The County Board of Supervisors is expected to consider zoning changes along the state highway between Aromas and San Juan Bautista...

Hollister school leaders have directed funds to help make repairs and upgrades at many of the local district’s school sites over the summer months in preparation of the 2019/20 school year. Hollister School District’s board of trustees unanimously approved a number of those projects...

Hollister School District board president Stephen Kain is not opposed to shifting from an at-large to a trustee area election system. So when the local League of United Latin American Citizens brought the issue to the Hollister school board, citing the California Voting Rights Act...

Wine is a quest. And making great wine is the quest of a lifetime.  Just ask Josh Jensen, founder of Calera Winery, one of the world’s most renowned producers of pinot noir. In 1974, he purchased a stunning, water-starved, bleak piece of land in the...

John White remembers living in San Jose when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake struck the state. He had just gotten home from his job at IBM and was turning on the TV to catch the World Series. “It started like a freight train,” he recalled. Soon,...

San Juan Bautista City Councilmember Dan DeVries has been charged with three misdemeanors in relation to a May 24 suspected domestic violence incident. San Benito County District Attorney Candice Hooper’s office on June 21 filed charges of battery of a non-cohabiting spouse, assault by any...

Police are investigating a traffic collision in which a 30-year-old Hollister motorist died while trying to pass another vehicle on Shore Road July 12.

Worth Saving Mercantile & Thrift Store celebrated its grand opening in downtown Hollister on July 10. The store, located at 101 Fifth St., opened in the former Pat’s Place, which closed in early 2018. Proceeds from Worth Saving benefit the non-profit Hollister Community Outreach/My Father’s...