Crime

The Hollister Police Department is asking the public for help identifying a man who robbed a convenience store at gunpoint early Monday morning.

Property owners of apartments and other multi-family rental units have until Dec. 31 to install carbon monoxide alarms in ccunits to comply with a 2010 state law. The Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act required single-family homes with an attached garage or a fossil fuel source to install the alarms by July 1, 2011, but multi-unit property owners were given more time to come into compliance. Alarms are required in all units with attached garages or fossil fuel burning appliances.

Firefighters this morning contained a small fire

A fire started early Thursday morning at West Coast Rubber Recycling, but was contained to the pile of material where it started, the fire chief said.

About 25 wildfires started by lightning burned about 200 acres

For years they have quietly done a job with little recognition

In the wake of an